Clarkston voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, March 16, to elect a City Council member. The special election is to fill a term on the City Council that expires at the end of this year.
Candidates who qualified to run for the post are Mark W. Perkins, Dean Moore and Shana "Tiny" McAllister. Moore served as a Clarkston council member from 2010 through 2017.
The deadline to register to vote in the election is Feb. 16. Voting will take place at the Clarkston First Baptist Church Family Life Center and the Clarkston Community Center.
Councilwoman Yterenickia "YT" Bell, who was elected to the council in 2017, vacated her post last year in an unsuccessful bid to run for mayor. She was defeated by Beverly Burks, who was sworn in as Clarkston's mayor on Nov. 30. Burks ran for mayor in 2017 but lost to Ted Terry, who stepped down in March of last year and is now a DeKalb County commissioner.
Clarkston estimates its population at about 13,500, which is almost twice its 2010 census population of 7,554. The city has grown in size because of annexations in 2015 and 2016.
