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Duquesne Council Swears in New Members
By Tom Leturgey
The Tube City Almanac
January 03, 2024
Posted in: Duquesne News
Duquesne's elected officials for 2024 (from left): Councilmembers Elaine Washington, Derek Artim, and Denise Brownfield, Mayor Scott Adams and Councilman Aaron Adams. (Tom Leturgey photo for Tube City Almanac)
District Magistrate Scott H. Schricker was busy Tuesday, with multiple stops for municipalities’ reorganization meetings, including his home municipality, Duquesne.
Schricker, who is entering his 21st year on the bench, swore in incumbent Derek Artim for his first full term on city council, as well as a debuting Denise Brownfield.
Brownfield won an open seat when now-former City Councilman Tim Caldwell chose not to run for re-election. Caldwell had not attended a Duquesne City Council business meeting for more than a year.
Brownfield had served on Duquesne City School Board and in an interesting twist, was one of the top write-in vote getters for the Democratic Allegheny Council at-large seat that was won uncontested by Bethany Hallam in November. Brownfield received seven write-ins, all from Duquesne.
Artim, who has helped craft a city budget for the past two years, ran unopposed in 2023.
In addition to the new members of council, officials moved to appoint Douglas Sample as city manager, Myron Sainovich as city solicitor, and Glenn Engineering as city engineer.
Officials appointed First Commonwealth Bank as the depository for the city, approved a tentative slate of meeting dates, and approved the use of Robert’s Rules of Order to control meetings. All were approved by 5-0 nods. Brownfield made the motion to approve the 2024 meeting schedule, which includes November’s meeting to be held the second Tuesday of the month, to avoid general election day.
Councilwoman Elaine Washington publicly thanked all who donated to the city’s Christmas party.
No other official business was lodged at the meeting, which ended after 14 minutes.
Originally published January 03, 2024.
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