Voters will elect two Princeton ISD school board trustees and two City Council members in November.

Monday, Aug. 17, was the deadline for candidates to file for the Tuesday, Nov. 3, general election ballot.

School board members serve three-year terms and seats open this year are held by Trustees Cyndi Darland, elected in 2020, and Starla Sharpe, elected in 2023. Both have filed for re-election.

Also on the PISD ballot are Charlotte Wilson and William (Ricky) Gillespie.

The two candidates with the most votes will be elected without a runoff.

Three candidates have filed for two of the seven at-large Princeton City Council seats Place 6 Councilmember Ben Long and Place 7 Councilmember Carolyn David-Graves both chose not to seek re-election.

Sumbel “Susan” Zeb, with the Collin Central Appraisal District Review Board, is running for Place 6. She will be joined on the ballot by Ken Seligman, a retired engineer and frequent speaker at city meetings.

Deshawyna Walker, a town secretary in another city, is the sole candidate seeking Place 7. A board member of the Princeton Economic Development Corporation (PEDC), Walker served for three years as coordinator for the PEDC as well as the Princeton Community Development Corporation.

Princeton City Council members serve four-year terms, but when the five-member council was expanded by two seats under the Home Rule Charter approved in 2022, the first terms of the additional members elected in 2023 were for three years.

Starting in 2030, places 1, 2 and 3 and the mayor will continue to be elected by all voters within the city limits, but places 4, 5, 6 and 7 will become single-member district seats representing voters within a specific geographic area.

The last day to register to vote is Tuesday, Oct. 5, and early voting will begin Tuesday, Oct. 19, and Friday, Oct. 23, is the last day to apply for a ballot by mail.

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