The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Nolan Center, for voters to select three assembly members, two school board members and three port commissioners.

Early, or absentee voting, is available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at City Hall, through Monday, Oct. 6.

As of Monday morning, Sept. 29, 23 voters had cast early ballots.

It will take a heavy turnout to surpass last year’s overall total of 544 voters, which was more than 10% higher than the average vote count going back to 2019.

Last year’s ballot asked voters to authorize borrowing $3 million for repairs to the Public Safety Building (approved), and to amend the municipal charter to allow payment to the mayor and assembly members (rejected).

There are no bond issues or ballot questions in this year’s municipal election to attract voters — just the eight seats total on the assembly, school board and port commission.

Dan Powers and assembly incumbent David Powell are running unopposed for the two three-year assembly terms on the ballot.

Assembly incumbents Brittani Robbins and Phillip Mach, along with David Wilson, are competing for the one-year assembly term on the ballot. The seat will go to whichever candidate receives the most votes.

Robbins is in the last year of a three-year term on the assembly; Mach has been on the assembly since February, when he was appointed to fill a vacant seat; and Wilson is running both for a seat on the assembly and to continue his service on the school board.

Robbins also is seeking a school board seat, running for both bodies, the same as Wilson. There is no municipal code against someone serving on the assembly and school board at the same time; Robbins served on both 2023-2024.

In addition to Robbins and Wilson, school board incumbent Elizabeth Roundtree and newcomer Bonnie Ritchie are on the ballot for the two, three-year board seats on the board.

And Jayme Howell filed on Thursday as a write-in candidate for school board.

The top two vote-getters for the school board between Howell and the four candidates whose names are on the ballot will each win a seat.

Three incumbents on the five-member port commission are running unopposed. John Yeager and Winston Davies filed for three-year seats, with Antonio Silva going for the one-year seat.