In the November election, Ariel Mendez and Mike Riley won two seats on the Bend City Council, along with incumbent Barb Campbell and Melanie Kebler as Bend’s next mayor. They will join Anthony Broadman and Megan Perkins on the Council starting in January. Kebler’s win in the Mayor’s seat created a vacancy for her Council seat, which will be filled by the Council in an appointment process.
Every two years, following an election the new Council embarks on a goal setting process. They take input from a variety of sources, and spend weeks developing new, two-year goals that drive the City’s work and influence how the General Fund in the budget is spent. This process will begin after the new Councilors are sworn in in January, 2023.
