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Milton has a new mayor and two new city council members.
Eric Stockman ran unopposed to succeed Mayor Anissa Welch, who was in office for a decade.
Stockman still had a year left on his term as a council member and so will leave a vacancy when he takes over as mayor. Milton City Clerk Jenny Salvo says the new council will discuss how to address that vacancy when it meets for the first time April 15th.
Also in voting (Tuesday), incumbent council member Sharla Walker held onto her seat, garnering 24.4 percent of the vote. Newcomer Derek Henze, who has organized the city’s Fourth of July celebration since at least 2020, won the biggest share of the vote among the four candidates, pulling in 27.5 percent to win a council seat.
In past years, Henze’s nonprofit has requested funding from the city budget and city resources such as police security and traffic control to put on the holiday celebration.
Molly Budlong will be the second new addition to the council after she won 24.7 percent of the vote.
