One of the three Fayetteville

City Council seats up for grabs in this fall's election will be contested,

while the other two will be filled by incumbents.

Lee Hunt, a two-year resident

of Fayetteville, will challenge Walt White in Post 3. He qualified about

45 minutes before Wednesday afternoon's deadline, according to City Clerk

Judy Stephens.

Larry Dell will return to the

council in the Post 4 seat, with Al Hovey-King back in Post 5. All City

Council seats are voted on citywide, and a candidate can choose to run

in whichever post he or she likes.

This year's election, scheduled

for Tuesday, Nov. 6, will be the first in the city with two polling places.

After many years of having all voters come to the Depot on East Lanier

Avenue, the city has split itself into two precincts, with the northern

half of town voting at the LaFayette Educational Center on LaFayette Drive,

and the southern half at the Fayette County Library on Stonewall Avenue.

The city will contract with

the county to handle the actual election, as it has done in the past.

All three incumbents have lengthy

records of city service, as the council has seen extraordinary stability

the past decade after considerable turmoil in the late 1980s. A controversial

annexation decision in 1987 led to a firestorm of protest by local residents,

a reversal by the state Legislature and the ouster of the entire council

within two years.

Dell and Hovey-King first appeared

on the council in 1988, after their predecessors were recalled. White

won his seat in the general election a year later.

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