{"id":2453526,"date":"2020-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319481"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:00:00","slug":"monday-is-the-deadline-to-enter-races-for-basalt-mayor-council-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/monday-is-the-deadline-to-enter-races-for-basalt-mayor-council-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday is the deadline to enter races for Basalt mayor, council seats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four of the seven seats on the Basalt Town Council will be up for election on April 7.<\/strong>
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The bell lap has arrived for jumping into the Basalt races for three Town Council seats and mayor.<\/p>\n

Nomination petitions for candidates must be returned to the town clerk\u2019s office by 5 p.m. Monday. Candidates must get signatures of 25 qualified electors.<\/p>\n

In the mayor\u2019s race, current Councilman Bill Infante and former Town Manager Bill Kane are in the race<\/a>. Former Councilman Rob Leavitt picked up a petition but said he hasn\u2019t formally decided on candidacy.<\/p>\n

In the council races, incumbent Jennifer Riffle picked up a petition along with three newcomers to Basalt politics \u2014 Glenn Drummond, Tiffany Haddad and David Knight. The council election is lumped into one race. The three candidates who receive the highest vote totals take seats.<\/p>\n

The election is April 7. The term for mayor and council are four years.<\/p>\n

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Four of the seven seats on the Basalt Town Council will be up for election on April 7.Aspen Times file The bell lap has arrived for jumping into the Basalt races for three Town Council seats and mayor. Nomination petitions for candidates must be returned to the town clerk\u2019s office by 5 p.m. Monday. Candidates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 19:54:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}