Reelection is off the table for one incumbent Holmes Beach city commissioner.
Commissioner Kim Rash, who received the most votes for commissioner in the elections of 2018 and 2020, did not qualify to seek reelection by the Manatee County Supervisor of Elections office’s June 17 deadline.
Rash, who wrote in a June 10 text message to The Islander that he was considering running for the mayoral post, did not respond to a June 17 text from The Islander.
The other incumbents, Mayor Judy Titsworth and Commissioner Jayne Christenson, qualified to run for reelection.
Titsworth — who served as a city commissioner 2012-18 and has served as mayor 2018-22 — is set to retain her seat without competition since no one else qualified to run for mayor.
She will be serving her third two-year term as mayor and making her second run without competition.
Christenson, who was elected to her first two-year term as commissioner in 2020 with 25.36% of a four-way vote, will vie for one of two seats with a pair of challengers, Daniel Diggins and Greg Kerchner.
Diggins challenged former Commissioner Marvin Grossman for appointment to a commission seat in 2016, when Grossman failed to qualify for reelection.
Kerchner is the chair of the city’s planning commission and has served on the board since 2019.
Mayors are paid $27,120 annually.
Commissioners earn $7,819.92 annually.
The city’s voters will decide who will represent them Tuesday, Nov. 8, in the general election.
There were 2,681 registered voters in Holmes Beach as of May 9, according to the SEO.
To learn more about the election, go to the SEO’s website, at votemanatee.com.