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Appointments
Appointments to City boards and commissions, the AEDC board and the hospital district board, and the City's votes in appraisal district board elections.
Each member's votes on these 13 decisions
| Member | Aye | Nay | Abstain | Absent | Mixed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Craft | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ginger Nelson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Freda Powell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| David Prescott | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Reid | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Eddy Sauer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tom Scherlen | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Les Simpson | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Howard Smith | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cole Stanley | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Don Tipps | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are of decisions, not readings: an ordinance's two readings are one decision. "Mixed" means the member voted differently on different readings of the same decision. Members served different spans, so totals are not comparable across people without the dates below.
May 2021 – May 2023 · 1 decisions
Appointment of an alternate member to the Zoning Board of Adjustment
The appointment was for a two-year alternate term starting January 1, 2022, one of several Zoning Board of Adjustment appointments that day. Just before it, a motion by Councilmember Stanley to appoint a different person as an alternate failed 2-3.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 4-1
May 2023 – May 2025 · 8 decisions
Appointment to the Library Advisory Board
The council appointed one member to the five-seat Library Advisory Board for a three-year term starting January 1, 2024. The minutes record no discussion.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 4-1
City's votes for the Potter County Appraisal District board
The resolution cast the City's votes in the Potter County Appraisal District board election. The adopted motion split 775 votes among four candidates (194, 194, 194 and 193). Councilmember Scherlen had first moved to give the City's votes to one candidate; that motion died for lack of a second.
Aye = cast the votes as moved · Passed 4-1
Appointment to the AEDC board, term ending Dec 31, 2027 (first motion)
This was the first of six motions to seat a permanent AEDC board. All but one director had resigned in November 2024, and NewsChannel 10 reported the appointees would replace temporary members, including Councilmembers Tipps and Craft. Mayor Stanley abstained on this nominee.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 3-1
Appointment to the AEDC board, term ending Dec 31, 2027 (second motion, failed)
The second nominee for a permanent AEDC board seat ending in 2027 drew two ayes, one no and two abstentions (Mayor Stanley and Councilmember Tipps), so the motion failed. A third nomination for a 2027 term then died for lack of a second.
Aye = make the appointment · Failed 2-1
Appointment to the AEDC board, term ending Dec 31, 2027 (third motion)
After two nominations for the 2027 seat failed, the council appointed a third nominee to the permanent AEDC board, which replaced temporary members, including Councilmembers Tipps and Craft. The same day the council approved the AEDC's revised policies and procedures 5-0.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 4-1
Appointment to the AEDC board, term ending Dec 31, 2025 (first motion)
This motion, made by Mayor Stanley, filled one of two permanent AEDC board seats with terms ending Dec. 31, 2025; the other two appointments approved that day run to Dec. 31, 2027.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 4-1
Appointment to the AEDC board, term ending Dec 31, 2025 (second motion)
This motion, also made by Mayor Stanley, filled the second permanent AEDC board seat with a term ending Dec. 31, 2025. It completed the four appointments approved that day; NewsChannel 10 listed the one director who had not resigned in 2024 as the fifth member.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 4-1
May 2025 – present · 4 decisions
Appointment to an AEDC board vacancy (first motion, failed for lack of a majority)
The special meeting filled the AEDC board seat left when the board chair resigned on July 15, 2025. Mayor Stanley's nominee, a bank executive, received only the votes of Stanley and Councilmember Reid; Councilmembers Tipps, Prescott and Simpson abstained, so the motion failed.
Aye = make the appointment · Failed 2-0
Appointment to an AEDC board vacancy (second motion)
After the first nomination failed, Councilmember Simpson nominated a former AEDC board member, and the council appointed that nominee unanimously to the seat left by the board chair's July 15, 2025 resignation.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 5-0
City's votes for the Randall County Appraisal District board
The resolution cast all 312 of the City's votes in the Randall County Appraisal District board election for a single candidate. Earlier in the meeting, the council voted 5-0 to split its Potter County Appraisal District votes evenly, 161 to each of two candidates.
Aye = cast the votes as moved · Passed 4-1
Appointment to fill a vacancy on the Amarillo Hospital District board
The council filled an open seat on the Amarillo Hospital District Board of Managers, choosing an appointee on a motion by Mayor Stanley after the City Secretary presented the item.
Aye = make the appointment · Passed 4-1
