Due

to an unusual set of circumstances, elections for

Brooks municipal posts this year will be delayed

until early next year.

Town

Council Posts 4, 5 and 6 were up for reelection

this fall, but Jimmy Lindsey, Post 4, announced

early on that he would not be seeking reelection.

Dan

Langford Jr. in Post 5 and Mike Hanson, Post 6,

both qualified to run for reelection, and were

unopposed, so no election will be necessary for

their posts.

C.

W. Howell was the only candidate who qualifed for

Post 4, so it appeared no election would be

needed at all, but after qualifying closed it was

discovered that Howell was a couple of weeks shy

of living the required one year in Brooks.

It

is too late to go through the qualifying process

again for the Nov. 2 election, so a special

election will be necessary.

Town

attorney David Winkle told the council at its

Oct. 18 meeting that the U.S. Justice Department

must be advised that a special election will be

conducted and there would be a period of 60 days

before approval would be given. He said that

concurrently with this period, the town could

proceed with running the required legal

advertising and that the election could be

conducted in early spring.

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