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John Seybert
John Seybert was appointed to a two-year term as mayor in Redwood City Monday night on a 5-2 council vote.
Councilwoman Diane Howard nominated Seybert, first elected to the council in 2009, for mayor and new Councilwoman Janet Borgens nominated longtime Councilman Ian Bain, who was appointed to the council in 1998 and won a seat on it in 2003.
“He has the knowledge, energy, heart and humility” to do the job, Howard said about Seybert before the council voted.
Once Seybert took the gavel as mayor, his first action was to nominate Bain as vice mayor.
Seybert said he sees the mayor and vice mayor’s role as a “valuable partnership” before nominating Bain.
The council tapped Seybert despite a strong grassroots campaign by residents to get Bain elected mayor based on being the top vote getter for council in November and his 13 years of service.
Bain had never served as mayor or vice mayor.
Earlier in the day, Bain told the Daily Journal that the city’s policy to pick a mayor had become too politicized and needed to change.
The city’s charter dictates that the council pick the mayor and vice mayor but it doesn’t say how to do it, Bain said.
Bain wants the mayor to be a rotating position based on council seniority.
“We need to remove the mystery and drama around it,” Bain told the Daily Journal.
The council also welcomed Shelly Masur and Borgens to the council Monday night as Barbara Pierce attended her last meeting as councilwoman after serving for 16 years. Rosanne Foust, who lost her re-election bid to council in November, was absent from the meeting.
The council also lauded outgoing mayor Jeff Gee for his two years of service.
“You set a high bar for the newcomers. You worked hard to be accessible to the community,” Masur said.
Gee handed each member of council a wrapped bottle of wine and walked the gift out to Pierce, who was sitting in the council after it officially reorganized.
Gee praised the council’s adoption of affordable housing impact fees and for adopting a new hillside slope ordinance during his time as mayor.
He also said the $130 million interchange project at Woodside Road and Highway 101 needs to move forward.
“The reality though is that the mayor is one position on a team of seven,” Gee said.
Before being elected to the council in 2009, Seybert served on the Planning Commission for eight years.
Seybert moved to the city in 1997 from the Santa Cruz Mountains when he took a position at Peninsula Covenant Church.
He works as the director of Facilities and Transportation at Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough and is married with three children.
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