Janee Ayers (Facebook photo)
This hasn't been easy.
After many rounds of voting on Wednesday, the Detroit City Council narrowed the field of candidates to two to fill the seat vacated by Saunteel Jenkins, who resigned to become CEO of The Heat and Warmth Fund.
The finalists are Janee' Ayers, a 33-year-old union leader, and Debra Walker, a community organizer and retired Chrysler executive, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Joe Guillen of the Detroit Free Press writes:
The City Council's complex — and sometimes confusing — appointment process will continue on Tuesday when each of the finalists are interviewed for a second time. Another vote is expected after the interviews.
The council could not reach the required super-majority of six members to agree on either Walker or Ayers. It took four rounds of voting at Wednesday's public meeting to narrow the field to two finalists. In the following three rounds, the votes for Ayers and Walker remained the same, so an impasse was declared.
