Delray Beach City Commissioner Angela Burns won reelection when no one filed to run against her by the city’s Nov. 21 qualifying deadline.
Three candidates have qualified to run for the open seat now held by Vice Mayor Rob Long. Long has to resign his seat in December because he is running for state representative in a Dec. 9 special election.
The candidates hoping to move into his seat after the March 10 election are real estate broker Judy Mollica, attorney Andrea Keiser, and Frances-Delores Rangel, a city resident going on 60 years, who has served as the executive secretary to the commission.
Mollica is a member of the city’s Planning and Zoning Board, president of Friends of Delray and a board member of the private Old School Square Center for the Arts organization that used to manage the city’s cultural arts campus.
Keiser was named to the board of the Delray Housing Authority in January.
Rangel was named employee of the month in December 2016 for her role as executive secretary to the commission.
The City Commission has yet to appoint a temporary replacement for Long’s seat. The issue has been pushed to its Dec. 8 agenda. Any appointment will require the majority support of the four remaining commission members.
— John Pacenti
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