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With 3 Dillon Town Council members subject to a potential recall, 4 candidates emerge with hopes of taking their spots

The recall election is the 2nd special election scheduled in Dillon in less than a year. It follows hot on the heels of a referendum election held last October.

A small audience gathers in front of the Dillon Town Council in this screenshot of a livestream from a Nov. 12, 2024, meeting. Mayor Carolyn Skowyra sits at the center of the table with council members Renee Imamura and John Woods to her right and council members Rachel Tuyn, Dana Christiansen and Kyle Hendricks to her left. A group of Dillon residents has filed a petition calling for the removal of Woods, Imamura and Christiansen.
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With a little over a month until a recall election in Dillon, four candidates have thrown their names into the ring to fill potential openings on the Dillon Town Council.

Town residents Linda Oliver, Claudia Pillow, Barbara Richard and Joshua Samuel are running to potentially replace one of the three council members subject to recall at the Tuesday, March 4, election, according to Dillon Town Clerk Adrienne Stuckey.

At the election, voters will decide whether or not to recall Dillon Town Council members Dana Christiansen, Renee Imamura and John Woods.



The Dillon town government announced it will hold a candidate forum Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at Town Hall to hear from the three council members facing recall and the four candidates running for election.

The town scheduled the special election, which will be conducted by mail-in ballot, after a five-member recall committee circulated petitions late last year calling for the three council members to be removed from office. Each petition received the required 17 signatures from registered town voters to proceed to the recall election, according to the town clerk.



The petitions state that Christiansen, Imamura and Woods failed to listen to constituents, have shown a lack of decorum and failed to uphold the town charter’s requirements that the government be responsive to the needs of citizens. The council members subject to the recall effort have defended their records as council members and said that they do listen to their constituents.

On the recall election ballot, there will be one question for each of the council members facing recall asking whether that individual should be recalled, Stuckey said. On the same ballot, Dillon residents will also be able to vote on the names of those who have been nominated to succeed anyone who is successfully recalled.

If the vote is such that one of the council members is recalled, the candidate who has received the highest number of votes will be elected to serve the remainder of the term, Stuckey said. If more than one council member is recalled, then the candidate who received the highest number of votes would be elected to fill the longest remaining term, she said.


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The recall election is the second special election scheduled in Dillon in less than a year. The town scheduled a referendum election in October after residents circulated a petition protesting the council’s approval of a major waterfront project. The referendum election overturned the “branded residence” project that Developer Jake Porritt had proposed for 626 Lake Dillon Drive, which the council had previously approved.

Last spring, Dillon canceled a municipal election after it received only three nominations for Town Council candidates, the same number of nominations as there were open positions in the election.


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