The list of applicants to replace two Columbus City Council members has been winnowed down to 15.

Council members interviewed some of the finalists on Monday and Tuesday, with the remainder to be interviewed on Jan. 8. A public hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 10 for the finalists being considered to replace Councilwoman Jaiza Page, who won a judgeship on the Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Applicants are also being considered to replace Councilman Michael Stinziano, who was elected Franklin County auditor but won't be sworn in until March.

The 15 finalists are:

• Nicholas J. Bankston, a project manager for the Columbus Department of Neighborhoods

• Lourdes Barroso De Padilla, vice-president of national events for City Year Inc.

• Stefanie Lynn Coe, who leads the Southwest Area Commission and is secretary, general counsel and director of health and safety for MPW Industrial Services Group of Hebron, which provides industrial cleaning, water treatment, facility management and other services

• Rev. Nancy Day-Achauer, a Westland Area Commission member, an ordained minister, and director of addiction ministries for the Capitol Area South District of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church

• Rob Dorans, a member of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Commission and chief legal counsel for ACT Ohio, which works on building-trades issues

• Albert Edmondson, a Near East Side barber shop owner and president of the Mount Vernon Avenue District Improvement Association

• Shayla D. Favor, a Columbus assistant city attorney

• Catherine A. Girves, executive director of Yay Bikes!, a bicycling advocacy group

• Chenelle Jones, program chair of public safety programs for Franklin University

• Marco Miller, an insurance agent and former Columbus firefighter and president of the local firefighters union

• Michelle Moskowitz Brown, executive director of Local Matters, which works to address access to healthy food

• Rick Neal, who unsuccessfully ran for Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers' seat in November

• Ramona Reyes, Columbus school board member and director of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Center

• Sam Shim, an IT consultant and vice president of the Worthington school board

• Erin Synk, director of governmental relations with the LNE Group, a government relations firm

Coe and Day-Achauer were finalists earlier this year to replace former Council President Zach Klein, who was elected city attorney in 2017.

Day-Achauer said that she wants to work through the council to address food insecurity issues and the opiate crisis. "It would enable me to do more work to help more people," she said.

Girves, who lives on the Near East Side, said she wants to address affordable housing through community land trusts. Local officials have discussed the city and county land banks creating a land trust where the land would remain under the trust's control and the house owned or rented by the occupant, stabilizing the cost. Girves said land trusts not only protect first owners but also future owners.

Shim, who lives on the Northwest Side, said he also wants to work on food insecurity issues. "We’re limited on the school board what we can do to help students," he said.

Favor, who lives near Franklin Park on the Near East Side, said being out in the community as an assistant city attorney dealing with drug houses and other neighborhood issues gives her insight into what's going on in the city. "I want to expand my reach to a greater platform. I see that platform being City Council," she said.

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