The eight remaining council members, led by council president Tim Burgess, will choose someone to replace Sally Clark through the end of the year.
The eight remaining council members, led by Council President Tim Burgess, will soon choose someone to replace Sally Clark through the end of the year. City of Seattle

In his quest for an "experienced caretaker" to fill the city council seat vacated by Sally Clark earlier this month, Council President Tim Burgess has gotten 44 applicants.

The council will discuss all the hopefuls in a closed-to-the-public executive session Friday, April 17, then select finalists (it's not clear how many) at their meeting on Monday. Next Friday (April 24) at 4 p.m., the council will hold a special public meeting for presentations from the finalists and public comments, and council members will take their final vote April 27.

Burgess says he wants someone who isn't planning to run this fall, when every single council seat is up for election.

Here are some notable applicants (links take you to their application materials), and the full list is below that.

• Jan Drago, a city council member from 1994 to 2009, including stints as council president and a defiant budget chair, and a King County Council member for a partial term in 2010. She ran for mayor in 2009. Before all that, she taught preschool and kindergarten and owned four Häagen Dazs ice cream shops. Bruce Harrell thinks she's "pretty fun."

• Peter Steinbrueck, who was on the council from 1997 to 2007; chaired the Housing, Human Services, and Civil Rights Committee; and spent two years as council president. In 2013, he ran for mayor and finished third in the primary before endorsing Ed Murray. He now runs a consulting firm, and the city recently paid him to study its "urban villages" strategy, which he found has encouraged growth, although that growth has been uneven. UPDATE: Steinbrueck later withdrew his application.

• Heidi Wills, city council member from 2000 to 2003, when she led the energy committee during some rough, rate-hike-filled times. Wills was also vice-chair of the council's housing-focused committee (similar to the one Clark chaired and paid a fine for violating the city's ethics code during "Strippergate"). She's currently director of the First Tee of Greater Seattle, which offers golf and life skills training for kids and teens.

• Howard Wright, of the family that built the Space Needle (which now has labor law problems) and the Chihuly glass museum (of which a local hospitality union has called for a boycott). Wright is now chair of the Seattle Hospitality Group, an event management company, and last year cochaired the mayor's minimum wage committee.

• Sharon Lee, executive director of the Low Income Housing Institute and an outspoken advocate on homelessness issues. Lee was a council legislative aide in the 1980s, served on the mayor's task force that got the recent tent encampments legislation rolling, and is part of the citizen group that recently laid out its own plan for the mayor's Housing Affordability and Livability Committee.

• David Yeaworth, former president of Allied Arts and city council aide first to Richard Conlin, then to Sally Clark.

• John Okamoto, former director of the Washington Education Association, who also led the city's human resources and engineering departments in the '90s. He was interim director of the city's Human Services Department until just this week, when the council appointed a new director.

• Dick Falkenbury, a former cab driver who wrote the original monorail initiative voters first approved in 1997 and ran for city council in 2003. (If his zero-fucks-given application is any indication, his reputation stands on its own.)

• Noel Frame, outgoing director of Progressive Majority Washington, who in 2012 ran against Port of Seattle commissioner Gael Tarleton for a house seat representing the 36th district.

• Donovan Rivers, a bishop, founder of the Apostolic Clergy Advisory Council, and inspector for King County Metro, who ran against US representative Jim McDermott in 2010

• Sheley Secrest, former president and current economic development chair of the Seattle King County NAACP and former member of the Office of Professional Accountability's review board. She's currently a policy analyst for the Metropolitan Urban League of Seattle.

• Sarajane Siegfriedt, who ran for a state house seat in the 46th legislative district in 2012 when The Stranger called her "delightful but doomed." She's currently a member of the Seattle-King County Coalition on Homelessness and the citizen group that recently presented a slate of policies for the mayor's Housing Affordability and Livability Committee.

• Norman Sigler, who ran for mayor in 2009, when he said, "We should all work together to create a city that has never been seen in the history of the world." He now runs a job recruitment consulting business.

• David Moseley, former assistant secretary of the Washington State Department of Transportation's ferries division and city manager of Federal Way. In 2013, he had to apologize after a shortage of crew members resulted in 31 canceled ferry trips in one weekend.

Here is the full list. (Everyone's application materials are right here.)

Linda Alexander
David Bloom
Christina Bollo
Kyle Bowman
Daniel Casaletto
Jan Drago
Dick Falkenbury
H. Richmond Fisher
Noel Frame
Brandon Gillespie
Rob Harrison
Andrew Himes
Gregg H. Hirakawa
Anne Jannetti
Timothy L. Janof
Sharon Lee
Sharon Maeda
Mathew McBride
Sarah Morningstar
David H. Moseley
Rory O'Sullivan
Ricky O Obiya
John Okamoto
Thomas Pitchford
Chris L. Porter
Ed Pottharst
Donovan Rivers
Giovanni Rosellini
Sheley Secrest
Earl Sedlik
Mauri Moore Shuler
Sarajane Siegfriedt
Norman Sigler
Mark Soloman
Emily Spahn
Peter Steinbrueck
Alec Stephens
Karen Studders
Senait Tilahun
David Toledo
Amanda Twiss
Heidi Wills
Howard Wright
David Yeaworth