{"id":641735,"date":"2026-03-08T21:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/641735\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:03:58","slug":"4-bellaire-residents-file-to-run-for-vacant-city-council-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/641735\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Bellaire residents file to run for vacant City Council position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four candidates have filed to run in a special election happening in May to fill the empty Bellaire City Council Position 4 seat.<\/p>\n<p><b>How it happened<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After Cindy Cohen-Taylor vacated her seat early in December, City Council officially <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bellaire-meyerland-west-university\/government\/2026\/01\/27\/candidate-filings-now-open-for-bellaire-city-council-position-4-seat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adopted an ordinance<\/a> in January to call a special election to fill the vacant seat.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen-Taylor won her seat for Position 4 on Bellaire City Council in the Nov. 4, 2024, race against opponent Elan Tavor, as <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bellaire-meyerland-west-university\/election\/2026\/01\/07\/bellaire-to-hold-may-special-election-to-fill-empty-position-4-seat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>In a Dec. 3 social media post, city staff thanked Cohen-Taylor for her contributions to the city and her time spent on council.<\/p>\n<p><b>Meet the candidates<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Candidates interested in the position could apply for a place on the ballot from Jan. 26 to March 3.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of those who filed within that time frame, in alphabetical order by last name:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shuba Grewal<\/li>\n<li>Gay Mayeux<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Newman<\/li>\n<li>Todd Thurber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The candidate who fills the vacant seat after the election will serve the remainder of the term through January 2028.<\/p>\n<p><b>Looking ahead<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The special election will take place May 2, with canvassing set for May 12, city officials said. Early voting will be conducted from April 20-27, with the polling location at the Bellaire Civic Center, located at 7008 South Rice Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four candidates have filed to run in a special election happening in May to fill the empty Bellaire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":641736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[273098,11125,273099,28577,8988,43322,4345,2650,11395,18293,26784,358,3187,333],"class_list":["post-641735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bellaire-city-council","tag-candidates","tag-cindy-cohen-taylor","tag-community-impact","tag-election","tag-filing","tag-houston","tag-local-government","tag-may","tag-near-me","tag-special-election","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-voting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116195587747107213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}