This year there’s something highly unusual going on with the five incumbents. Only one of the four incumbents running for a 4-year term on the city council identified themselves as a councilmember in the ballot designations submitted to the City Clerk.

In prior years, take 2016 for example, all sitting councilmembers designated themselves as such. We can’t remember an election cycle in recent memory in which any sitting Councilmember didn’t highlight their elected position.

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