Over the last two election cycles, Craig Stallons has sincerely contemplated running for Cadiz City Council — but life and business got in the way.
Now, he’s answering the call.
Tuesday afternoon following a 20-minute discussion in executive session, the body unanimously chose to appointed him as replacement for Tim Bridges — who chose to resign his post in November.
Stallons was sworn in by Mayor Todd King Wednesday morning — bringing the council’s ranks back to full strength.
Despite not being able to legally offer guidance or suggestions to other council members during this nomination and confirmation process, King did say the addition of Stallons brought nothing but another asset to the panel.
A graduate of Trigg County High School and Murray State University, he currently works part-time as a realtor after retiring from a three-decade career at Princeton’s Special Metals Corporation and a short term with the Trigg County Hospital.
A lifelong resident of Cadiz, as well as a husband and father of two daughters, Stallons has previously served the community in various municipal roles like the Cadiz-Trigg County Planning Commission, Cadiz Board of Zoning Adjustments and Cadiz Code Enforcement Board.
It’s those stations, he noted, that got him interest in civics.
In accordance to state law, and just as Todd Wallace did when he was appointed to replace Councilman Brian Futrell, Stallons had to resign from his planning commission post Wednesday morning.
Also, in an odd stroke of timing, Stallons will serve out the rest of this two weeks in the old term, and then will have to be sworn in again at the start of 2025 in order to fill the next two years.
From there, Stallons will then have until late 2026 to decide on whether he wants to put together an election campaign, or move on to other civic obligations.
In other city council news:
— Council members opted to accept a standard FEMA resolution, a required agreement if the city is to ever accept federal payments in the event of a natural disaster.
— Council members also opted to accept a gas/utility franchise bid from Atmos Energy, valued at a 1% franchise fee for the next decade. Bids will be accepted again in 2034.
— And council members had to choose between two bids for city engineering rights: Ronald Johnson & Associates and BFW Engineering, with the former earning the nod.
