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My wife Connie and I retired in 1999 and moved to Electric City from Seattle. We did some investing in the area, did a lot of fishing and I played a lot of golf. Then one day in 2005, Troy Ritter asked if I would consider running for Electric City Council. I finally said yes and was elected and started in 2006. Then in March of 2009, after Mayor Ray Halsey passed away, I became mayor for the last nine months of his term. I was re-elected in November of 2009 for a four-year term and re-elected in 2013.

Connie and I have two sons and a daughter and 10 grandkids, the youngest being just 2 years old, seven in the Seattle area and three in Boise. Connie and I have decided at this time in our lives we would like to start seeing more of our kids and grandkids.

If my term was up at the end of this year, I would continue as mayor and not run again, but because I still have 34 months left to my term, I have decided to resign as mayor at the end of February, 2015.

During the last nine years I hope that the council and I have made Electric City a better place to live.

Electric City Mayor

Jerry Sands