Another open seat on the Washougal City Council led to a near double-digit applicant turnout for the second time in about a month.
Councilor Joyce Lindsay is resigning effective Wednesday. There will be a special meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday in council chambers, 1701 C St., to interview the nine applicants for the position.
In April, 10 applicants filed for former Councilor Dan Coursey’s open seat, and the council appointed Ernie Suggs to the position.
The seat will be part of the 2019 primary and general election, so the appointee to the position will serve until the results of the November 2019 general election.
The applicants for the open seat are:
• Gregor Theis, a senior credit risk analyst.
• Janice Killion, a commissioner on the Clark County Clean Water Commission and retired public agency attorney for the county of Napa, Calif. and the city of Santa Rosa, Calif.
• Karen Susac, a former public school teacher in Chicago who most recently worked as an advanced markets director for Symetra Life Insurance Company.
• Alexandra Yost, co-owner of OurBar and co-founder of Washougal Round Table.
• Paul Russell, who most recently worked as a ramp agent for McGee Air Service in Renton.
• Kimberly Wongwai, who is retired after a 30-plus-years career in the health care industry, where she managed business and technical teams in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Utah for Cambia Health Solutions.
• Paul Godin, a substitute teacher in the Washougal School District who launched a write-in campaign to run for Washougal mayor in 2017 against Coursey and eventual winner Molly Coston. Godin received 121 votes, or nearly 4 percent, in the November mayoral election.
• Donald Lowe, a former enterprise continuous improvement manager/director for Insitu in Bingen, who volunteered with Washougal High School Parent Advisory Council and Columbia River Gorge Elementary School planning.
• Adam Philbin, a security and risk manager for Shriners Hospital for Children in Portland, who ran for Position No. 6 in November’s election, but lost out to Julie Russell.
