7 Candidates Volunteer For Open Yardley Council Seat

YARDLEY, PA — Seven people, including two former council members, have volunteered to fill an empty seat on Yardley Borough Council.

Current council members will be conducting interviews with the applicants on Tuesday, Feb. 11. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and will be open to the public. Yardley residents will be allowed to ask questions of the candidates as well.

Current council members will vote at the end of the meeting and a new member will be sworn in at the council's Feb. 18 meeting.

The applicants to fill the open post are:

• Matthew Curtin
• Victoria Czechowski
• Uri Feiner
• Dan Mohn
• Dawn Perlmutter
• Constance Webster
• George Weremijenko

According to city officials, Steve Andrews also applied, but will be out of town on Tuesday and unable to attend the interviews, so he withdrew his application.

Mohn and Feiner are former council members.

The seat became open when councilman-elect Patrick McGovern declined to accept his seat on the board.

His decision came after McGovern publicly acknowledged having run a fake Facebook account on which he made racist and otherwise insensitive posts on local pages. McGovern, a Democrat, apologized publicly and said the account was meant to be parody.

The day after November's elections, in which Democrats took control of a Yardley council formerly controlled by Republicans, then-Councilwoman Sandi Brady, a Republican, resigned her seat, citing McGovern's posts and an otherwise "toxic" atmosphere on the council as reasons.

Council members selected colleague Ryan Berry, an independent who had been defeated in his bid for re-election, to serve the remaining two years of Brady's term.