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    Architect Reggie Cox will serve another four years on the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency board.
    Three new members will join him: Morris Carstarphen, Annette Gray and Allen “Sandy” Zeller.
    It took two meetings to fill the four open seats because Commissioner Mitch Katz missed the first meeting due to a travel delay.
    Cox was Mayor Cary Glickstein’s CRA pick at the City Commission’s first June meeting.
    Vice Mayor Jim Chard and Deputy Vice Mayor Shirley Johnson agreed, but Commissioner Shelly Petrolia did not. She wanted new candidates. The vote was 3-1.
    Johnson’s two nominations ended in tied votes. Then Chard selected Carstarphen, a businessman who used to be a Target Stores manager, as his pick. The three others agreed.  
    At the second June meeting, Katz selected Gray, a real estate broker and entrepreneur who had served on the CRA board previously. The vote was 4-1, with the mayor dissenting. Gray was one of Johnson’s picks that ended in a tied vote two weeks earlier.
    Zeller, a real estate lawyer with municipal board experience, was Petrolia’s selection.
    At the first June meeting, his pick did not receive a second. Petrolia deferred rather than lose that selection. At the second meeting Zeller’s selection received unanimous approval.
    Terms for the new CRA board members begin July 1.

—Jane Smith