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Wasilla City Hall, August 2008. The Wasilla City Council is the city's legislature. It enacts laws and policy statements, sets the property tax rate, and approves the budget and funds for city services. It has six members, elected at-large by Wasilla residents for three year terms. The mayor is elected separately. A run-off election is held if ...
Early political career of Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin was a member of the City Council of Wasilla, Alaska from 1992 to 1996 and the city's mayor from 1996 to 2002. Wasilla is located 29 miles (47 km) north-east of the port of Anchorage, and is the largest population center in the Mat-Su Valley. At the conclusion of Palin's tenure as mayor in 2002 ...
Wasilla City Council. Palin was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992, winning by a margin of 530 votes to 310. Mayor of Wasilla. Concerned that revenue from a new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely, Palin ran for mayor of Wasilla in 1996, defeating incumbent mayor John Stein by a 651–440 margin.
Wasilla, Alaska City Council Election, Seat E, 1992; Candidate Votes % Sarah Palin: 530 54.9 John Hartrick 310 32.1 Write-ins 125 13.0 See also.
Spouse. Aleta. Residence. Wasilla, Alaska. Alma mater. Alaska Pacific University. David S. Wilson (born ca. 1981) is an American politician from Alaska. A Republican, Wilson has represented Wasilla in the Alaska Senate since 2017. He formerly served as a city councilman in Wasilla.
Kohring represented Wasilla in District 26 and then District 14, after redistricting due to the 2000 United States census. He resigned on July 19, 2007, during a widespread Alaska political corruption probe. In 2013, Kohring ran for a seat on the Wasilla City Council. He was defeated by a 2–to-1 margin on October 1, 2013.
Page also helped form the Iditarod Trail Committee, which organizes the race, and the Musher's Hall of Fame in Knik. She served four terms on the Wasilla City Council, and was mayor from 1986 to 1987. She volunteered as the president of the Wasilla-Knik-Willow Creek Historical Society, and was the curator of the Wasilla and Knik museums.
Colleen Sullivan-Leonard (born 1959) is an American politician from Alaska. A Republican, she represented District 7 in the Alaska House of Representatives. Political career. Sullivan-Leonard served on the Wasilla City Council from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2010 to 2016.