The deadline to qualify for the Sept. 3 Alexandria Municipal Election is noon on June 18.
Alexandria voters will elect a mayor and two aldermen to fill vacancies or the remaining two years of unexpired terms. Three other aldermen will be chosen in the city for four-year terms.
Tony Tarpley has served as mayor by appointment since 2013, when Jim York was elected, then resigned after three days in office. Bennett Armstrong is also serving as an appointed alderman.
According to the election commission Armstrong and Tarpley have picked up petitions to run for mayor, and Armstrong has turned his completed petition in to the election office. The elected candidate will finish the last two years of the term in the mayor’s office.
David Cripps, Kelly Pyburn, and John F. Suggs have all picked up petitions to seek a four-year term as alderman, and Suggs and Cripps have both returned them to become eligible to run. Cripps and Suggs are incumbent aldermen, and are also appointees serving out unexpired or vacant terms.
Matthew Boss and Danny Parkerson have obtained petitions to run for a two-year aldermanic term as well.
Current members of the city board are Mayor Tarpley and Aldermen Cripps, Suggs, Armstrong and Pat Jackson. All have been appointed except for Jackson, who was elected in 2013 and has two years left on his term.