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The history.

2014 and then the people below. OR wait - this table is on The Family -so just link to it. This is a story....

"Blood makes you related, but loyalty makes you family."

https://springfieldohio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Council_Manager_Government2.pdf

https://springfieldohio.gov/government-of-springfield-ohio/

From the Council-Manager Form of Government PDF:

Overview

Council-manager government combines the strong political leadership of elected officials with the strong managerial experience of an appointed manager or administrator. All power and authority to set policy rests with an elected governing body, which includes a mayor or chairperson and members of the council, commission, or board. The governing body in turn hires a nonpartisan manager who has very broad authority to run the organization. This appointee serves at the pleasure of the council and has responsibility for preparing the budget, directing day-today operations, hiring and firing personnel, and serving as the council’s chief policy advisor. Born out of the U.S. progressive reform movement at the turn of the 20th century, the council-manager system was designed to combat corruption and unethical activity in local government by promoting effective management within a transparent, responsive, and accountable structure. Since its establishment, the council-manager form has become the most popular structure of local government in the United States. The form is also widely used throughout the world in countries such as Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

So the Commission is elected, the Mayor is elected or appointed (Rue's both - first, he was appointed, the next time he was elected by being unopposed)

Rue came in, and "hired" The Don (City Manager Bryan Heck) in 2019. So now, the only way The Don can be removed is by a Commission vote. So, in turn, the Manager (and Mayor) work to make sure who is allowed to run for City Commission. They just determined this in Spring 2025:

From the Feb 12, 2025, Springfield News-Sun article, https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/donahues-petitions-invalid-4-will-run-for-3-springfield-city-commission-seats/C7EK57MU75ATJFBCFK4BLT4TJU/

Beth Donahue, executive director of the Springfield Domestic Violence Coalition, was the fifth person who filed petitions to run for city commission, turning in more than the required 250 signatures. It is common that some people who sign political candidates’ petitions turn out not to be registered voters, or live outside the jurisdiction the candidate is running for.

Board of Elections Director Jason Baker said after some invalid signatures were eliminated, Donahue had only 236 valid signatures, and therefore was not certified to the ballot.

Clark County Board of Elections Director Jason Baker, a former insurance agent with Code Blue, is a Springfield resident first elected to the position in 2015. In March 2023, The Clark County Board of Elections held its reorganizational meeting, where board members voted to not make changes to the board’s leadership.

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