I fail to see the conflict to be trying to improve the town by updating the charter and trying to improve the town by addressing other current problems.

One is tempted to question the motive to claim the existence of a conflict, but maybe it actually IS there and I just don’t see it yet.

For that matter “the appointment might make it appear that the council is biased toward a particular candidate” runs into two potential problems.
1. Having brought her name up, a rejection of it might also be perceived as a bias against a particular candidate or in support of someone who isn’t her.
2. Appearing to be favored by the current council might not be the big boost implied.

David for better people
(like Mary, for example)

The Supervisor of Elections office does not give legal advice. At least in the city of Pensacola where I live, the city attorney and city clerk do often give legal opinions contrary to state and even city law. I wonder if someone in Century’s city hall told Mr. Boutwell that he had to resign his council seat to run for mayor. If that happened, and I am not saying it did, it would be a bad news story for town hall.

I met and spoke with Ms. Bourgeois last year after a council meeting. I thought that she was an extraordinary person of great intelligence and vision. I liked also that she was plain spoken. If Mr. Gomez’s only objection to supporting Ms. Bourgeois as an interim replacement on the council is her role as the campaign treasurer for Ms. McCall, the obvious solution is for Ms. Bourgeois to resign from that role sending Ms. McCall an email saying so with a Cc: copy to all of the council members. Ms. McCall can then appoint a new campaign treasurer, or appoint herself, and file the appropriate paperwork with the Supervisor of Elections office.

I like Century but it seems a town of squandered opportunity and with a confused identity starting with the sign out front that wrongly says “city hall.” In 2009, Mayor McCall took my wife Yvonne and I on the grand tour when I drove up to ask if he would support 25-member Escambia County Consolidation Study Commission holding a meeting in the town. We had a few “north county” people on it like Jimmy Cunningham and Rusty Tanner. I was one of two City of Pensacola appointees and the commission’s secretary responsible for organizing our meetings. Most of the commission members did “not” want to hold a meeting in Century but I insisted and won that argument by organizing the meeting and then reporting what I had done as a done deal. As it turned out, and as I expected, some of the best and most brutally honest input we got was during our meeting in Century. Nobody sugar coated anything. That said, when I recently drove up to Jay, I made a point to drive using the western route via Century on the way up. I was shocked to see that the general state of decay in Century seemed far worse than what I observed in 2009.

Really?

Never stopped you in the past!!!