Candidates hoping to be appointed to the vacant seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council will have to wait another week before any decision might be made.

A vote on whether or not the council would vote to appoint another candidate to the Town Council failed to pass by a vote of four to three at the council meeting on Monday night.

Chapel Hill resident Nancy Oates petitioned the Town Council to put off any consideration of appointing a new member until a full council was present.

Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt says, regardless of council population, any candidate would need to hit a certain mark in order to receive an appointment.

“The Town Council has to have five people voting the same way in order for that to happen,” Kleinschmidt says. “Even if there are only five council members here, all five of them would have to [vote] in the same direction.

“So it doesn’t really matter whether we have everyone here or not.”

Council member Lee Storrow was out of town for business and,therefore, was not in attendance for the meeting.

The appointment will appear on every agenda until the Town Council appoints a new member or residents elect a representative.

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