{"id":135375,"date":"2026-01-23T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:27:09","slug":"humble-city-council-accepting-applications-to-fill-vacant-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135375\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble City Council accepting applications to fill vacant seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFollowing the death of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhumbletx.gov\/city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Humble City Council<\/a> member Dec. 15, the city is now accepting applications to fill the vacant position.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it<\/p>\n<p>Council member <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/lake-houston-humble-kingwood\/government\/2026\/01\/12\/humble-city-council-member-dies-after-serving-city-for-27-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles \u201cAndy\u201d Curry<\/a> served on City Council for about 27 years, as previously reported by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders are accepting applications for the vacant Place 1 seat from Jan. 23-30, Mayor Norman Funderburk said during the <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net\/humble-tx\/6e42564b-bb44-11f0-a7da-005056a89546-ebc5fcf5-5ee0-49f0-881b-bc93fbd4747c-1768580448.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jan. 22 council meeting<\/a>. Following the application period, city officials will interview prospective council members before making a decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will interview the candidates and make a decision on the most qualified individual and make that appointment,\u201d Funderburk said.<\/p>\n<p>Sorting out details<\/p>\n<p>City law allows the City Council to either hold a special election or appoint a replacement council member, Funderburk said.<\/p>\n<p>The Place 1 term runs until 2027, according to the city&#8217;s website.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the death of a Humble City Council member Dec. 15, the city is now accepting applications to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52575,57738,56,58,57,17040,57736,52579,57737,20477,57735],"class_list":["post-135375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-andy-curry","tag-andy-curry-death","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble-city-council","tag-humble-city-council-applications","tag-humble-city-council-member-dies","tag-humble-city-council-vacant-seat","tag-norman-funderburk","tag-place-1-city-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}