The April 27 agenda of the Mayor/Council regular meeting was just posted online. Item # 9 is the updated list of who is still eligible to apply for the vacant Ward 2 Council seat. Here’s the updated list, and it’s currently down to 11 (from the original 14):

* Jeff Bales (4/21 update: applicant withdrew per City Clerk’s office)
* Keith Barnes
* Joshua Jude Chesser (4/22 update: not qualified per Pima County Recorder Certification)
* Judith B. Clinco
* Paul Arthur Cunningham
* Kestutis J.(Kasey) Eidukonis
* Michael J. Fox
* Richard K.(Rick) Grinnell
* Richard Livingood
* Ken Morgan
* Lori Oien
* Jason Parsons (4/22 update: not qualified per Pima County Recorder Certification)
* William J. Polson
* Kenneth Van Zandt

Read my previous blog of April 20 (click here) as to how to comment about these remaining 11 applicants before Tuesday’s meeting.

Steve Kozachik

His website provides information on who he is and who are his newly-hired Council staff. Steve has a B.A. in Public Administration and an MED in Higher Education Management, and has worked for the University of Arizona since 1988 in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He is the Associate Director of Athletics for Facilities and Project Management and is responsible for “overseeing project management from design through occupancy.” His website also tells you about his wife and daughter.

The Ward 6 Council office is located at 3202 E. 1st Street (SE corner of Anderson), one block south of E. Speedway, one block east of N. Country Club, in the heart of Ward 6.

Please RSVP by February 16 to 520-837-4239.

If you can’t attend the Open House, but have a concern call the Ward 6 council office at 520-791-4601 or email ward6@tucsonaz.gov.

The public is invited Monday December 7, 10 a.m. at the Fox Tucson Theatre…to witness the swearing-in of incumbent Councilmember Karin Uhlich (Ward 3), and new Councilmembers Richard Fimbres (Ward 5) and Steve Kozachik (Ward 6), for a four year term on the Tucson City Council. For more information on the current Mayor and Council, and City Manager, click here.

If you haven’t been to the beautiful, renovated, historic Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress Street in downtown between Stone and Church, here’s your chance. Their website provides info on their upcoming holiday events and there are many. Opening night for this gem was April 11, 1930.

About the Fox: “The Fox Tucson Theatre Foundation was incorporated in July of 1999 and was formed for the express purpose of returning the theatre to the community. The Foundation is an Arizona 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed out of the citizen’s group known as the Fox Theatre Revival Committee, which began looking at ways to save the theatre in 1997. This group was composed of people who wanted to see the theatre restored, and re-opened. The stated mission of the Foundation is the purchase, restoration, renovation, and operation of the historic Fox Tucson Theatre, located at 17 West Congress, in downtown Tucson, Arizona. The Foundation is guided by a professional staff and is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors. For further information on the theatre, contact the Foundation office at 520-624-1515.”

And if you’re wondering where to park downtown, I recommend you instead take the Sun Tran bus as many routes go through the Ronstadt Transit Center (NE corner of Congress and 6th Avenue), just down the street from the Fox. Call 792-9222 for route information.