Tuesday’s meeting of the Amarillo City Council served as a milestone for two reasons.
First, the meeting was the first in-person meeting of the council in more than a year, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic causing council meetings, and many other public meetings, to be conducted via video conferencing software.
Second, Tuesday s meeting served as the first one after May’s general election, where individuals cast their votes for the mayoral position as well as the city’s four council seats. The votes cast by Potter and Randall county residents were canvassed and official after unanimous approval from the city council.
In May s general election, one of the races voters will be making their voices heard on is who will be four members of the city council for Amarillo for the next term.
The new members of the city council will join the person elected to be Amarillo s mayor, a race which is also on May s election ballot. A preview for that specific race ran previously in print and is available on the Amarillo Globe-News website.
The Globe-News reached out to all 12 candidates running for the four places on Amarillo s city council. Each candidate was asked a set of questions via email, and those answers are presented in a question and answer format below.