Two names on this year’s ballot for Signal Mountain government will be the same – Mayor Bill Lusk and Councilwoman Annette Allen have both filed to seek re-election – but the venue will be markedly different.
A third seat, that of Councilman Bill Wallace, will also be on the ballot, but no one else has registered for the race at this time.
Beginning with the state primary and county general elections Aug. 2, voters of both Signal Mountain precincts 1 and 2 will vote at Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church.
“We did what the workers asked us to do,” said Administrator of Elections Charlotte Mullis-Morgan. “They’ve been asking for several years because there’s no air [conditioning] up there and they’re there 13, 14 hours a day. And there’s not quite enough parking. The Presbyterian church welcomed us.”
She noted that voters will not enter or even see the sanctuary as part of the voting process.