Ten candidates will vie for four seats on the Galesburg City Council in the April 2023 consolidated election.
Two more candidates filed petitions to run for City Council on Monday. Citizens had until 5 p.m. Monday to file. Seats in the city’s odd wards — 1, 3, 5, 7 — are up for election in the spring. Seats in Wards 2, 4 and 6 will be on the ballot in 2025.
Filing petitions on Monday were Steven “Champ” Coleman II in Ward 1 and Thomas Roberts in Ward 3.
The consolidated election is April 4, 2023.
All four incumbents in the four open wards will run for re-election. Two wards — Wards 1 and 3 — will have three candidates each. Wards 5 and 7 will have two candidates each.
In Ward 1, incumbent Bradley Hix (1233 Florence Ave.) will be challenged by Jamie Carr (785 Warren St.) and Steven “Champ” Coleman (727 Johnston St.).
In Ward 3, Kevin Wallace (1999 Baird Ave.) will be challenged by Evan Miller (483 E. Second St.) and Thomas Roberts (934 Chamberlain St).
In Ward 5, Jaclyn Smith-Esters (537 N. Broad St.) will be challenged by Heather Zeigler Acerra (325 N. Prairie St.).
And in Ward 7, Larry Cox (3266 Lakeside Ct.) will be challenged by Steve Cheesman (79 Circle Dr.).
Candidates running for the City Council must be 18 by the election, must have a one-year residency in the city and must have resided in the ward at least one year prior to the election.
School board elections also will be on the 2023 consolidated election ballot, where Galesburg District 205 will have three open seats.
Up for re-election in District 205 are seats held by Tianna Cervantez and Courtney Rodriguez within the district, and Rodney Phelps in remaining townships. Cervantez, Rodriguez and Phelps all filed to run for re-election in 2023. Other challengers to file petitions were Jake Taylor (within the district) and David A. Sharp (remaining townships).
Four of the board’s total seats represent residents of the city of Galesburg, with the remaining three seats representing outlying areas within the district.