The City Council seats rotate:

New Councilmembers Chelsea Byers and John Heilman inherit their predecessors’ commissioners and most likely their offices.

There are five members on City Council. Each member serves a four-year term in the “seat.”

Two seats appear on the ballot in each presidential election year: 2000, 2004, 2020 and in 2024 …

Three seats appear on the ballot during the mid-term election years: 2002, 2006, 2022, 2026 …

When John Heilman was elected to City Council in 1984 his seat and office remained the same until 2015 when he was defeated. In that election, John D’Amico came in first place and took over Heilman’s seat. The next day D’Amico is said to have moved into Heilman’s corner office and his commissioners and board members.

Heilman won back a seat on the dais just two months later after capturing the open seat of former City Council member Jeffrey Prang. Heilman served the remainder of Prang’s term in Prang’s seat. Heilman was re-elected in 2017 and served until 2020. When Heilman was defeated in 2020, Councilmember Sepi Shyne took that ‘seat’. Councilmember John Erickson took John Duran’s ‘seat’.. and their commissioners.

In the election of 2022, City Clerk Melissa Crowder has confirmed that Chelsea Byers received the most votes and will inherit all of Lindsey Horvath’s commissioners.

Heilman takes back his original seat which was lost to John D’Amico in 2015. And he will begin his final term with all of the Commissioners and Board members that were the direct appointments of D’Amico.

And so it goes. Duck, Duck, Goose.

JOHN D’AMICO’S APPOINTEES

LINDSEY HORVATH’S APPOINTEES