By Keith McCoy
City City Hall 2
Mountain Brook Mayor Terry Oden gave official Notice, Tuesday, July 5 that on Tuesday, Aug. 23, an election for the purpose of electing the mayor and two members of the City Council will be held. Elections will be held for council places two and four, currently held by Jack Carl and Virginia Smith, this summer. The office of the mayor is also up for election.
Smith will once again run for office, though Carl and Mayor Oden will not seek reelection.
“After 24 years of elected office in Mountain Brook,” Oden said, “I have decided not to run again.”
In speaking about her decision to run again, Smith said she had spoken with her family and they all shared their support.
The other council members, as well as city leaders, she said, also showed their support. Smith said because the council members are selected to serve the whole city and are not paid for their service, everyone’s decisions are made for the good of the whole. Even when they vote differently, she said, the council has been able to move on and continue handling the city’s business.
“I’ve worked with great council members throughout the years,” she said. “I’ve met a lot of people and I think, made a lot of friends.”
According to the Notice, available on the City of Mountain Brook’s official website, “all registered and qualified electors of the state, who reside within the corporate limits of the City of Mountain Brook, Alabama, and have resided therein for 30 days or more immediately preceding the date of the election, and who are qualified to vote in the county precinct which embraces and covers that part of the corporate limits of the city in which the elector resides, will be authorized to participate in the election.”
Polls will open at 7 a.m. Aug. 23 and remain open until 7 p.m.
The following addresses, per City Ordinance No. 1950, are the official polling locations:
- St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Precinct 46, Box 8), 3736 Montrose Road, 35213
- City Hall (Precinct 46, Box 9), 56 Church Street, 35213
- Brookwood Baptist Church (Precinct 48, Box 6), 3449 Overton Road, 35223
- Mountain Brook Community Church (Precinct 48, Box 4), 3001 U.S. Highway 280
- Mountain Brook Elementary (Precinct 46, Box 7), 3001 U.S. 280, 35243
- Cherokee Bend Elementary (Precinct 45, Box 2), 4400 Fair Oaks Drive, 35223
If necessary, a run-off election will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 4.
Any qualified elector who will have resided within the municipality for a period of at least 90 days on election day may qualify to run for office by filing the appropriate forms and paying any appropriate fees, as otherwise prescribed by law. The period of candidate qualification began at 8 a.m. on July 5 and will end at 5 p.m. on July 19.
For more information, visit www.mtnbrook.org. or click here for Village Living's Election Guide.
This article was updated at 8:44 a.m. July 7 to properly reflect official polling locations.
