Clark Tenney Picked To Serve On The Prescott City Council
There’s a new member of the Prescott City Council. Clark Tenney was selected by the council Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by Billie Orr. Council voted 6-0 to select Tenney from five candidates, to serve in the seat until the term ends in November of 2023. Tenney has lived in Prescott for over 30 years and serves as assistant principal at Prescott High School. Mayor Greg Mengarelli supports the council’s choice. He says “it was important to me that the successful candidate emulate the values of former Councilwoman Orr. I believe Clark Tenney does that and that he will make an excellent addition to the City Council.” Tenney’s first council meeting will be next Tuesday.
Is this the norm for how people get appointed to fill in on the City Council? Were any other people hoping to fill this position? If so, how was that handled?
They had a pool of five candidates and they chose him out of the five. Every city has a different way to pick a successor, this is how Prescott does it. As for where they got the names, I’m not sure but possibly from an application process.
Good thing you hired another old white dude. Not like the council could better represent the area lol So glad the token black guy and woman could be included in the people you pretended to interview. Prescott just living up to its reputation of racism, corruption and manipulation to avoid voter accountability. Wouldn’t want to appeal to struggling families leaving the area because of suppressed wages and increases in government spending. Sounds super republican.
To clarify and better answer the question, the Council had 24 applications for the seat, from which they chose five finalists. The majority chose to appoint Tenney to fill the seat vacated by Billie Orr only a couple of months after she won her election, so he will serve most of four years. It could have chosen to appoint someone for the interim up to the October election, and was urged to do so by many voters and opinion leaders, including the Prescott Daily Courier editors. This was a loss for Prescott voters and a gain for the good-old-boy system.
I am very curious about the Orr “retirement”. Shortly after winning reelection she suddenly is stricken with a respiratory health challenge. So she decides to retire and move to Phoenix, where the air quality is significantly worse than Prescott. Doesn’t add up. Is there a manipulation of the retirement plan going on here? After all, the salvation of the system was her baby, wasn’t it?
Its the Prescott way. Same reason they’ve worked so hard to pass me fees and rules to push out populations they don’t care for instead of investing in the generation of young people they failed.