{"id":62984,"date":"2025-11-24T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62984\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:19:36","slug":"cedar-park-city-council-appoints-petri-darby-to-temporary-place-6-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62984\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Park City Council appoints Petri Darby to temporary Place 6 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCedar Park City Council appointed a new temporary member to serve in its Place 6 seat at its <a href=\"https:\/\/cedarparktx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/361840\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nov. 20 regular meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Council appointed Petri Darby to the seat vacated by <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/cedar-park-far-northwest-austin\/government\/2025\/11\/10\/heather-jefts-resigns-from-cedar-park-city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Jefts <\/a>in late October. Darby will serve out the remainder of Jefts\u2019 term, which is set to expire in May.<\/p>\n<p>Darby was one of three candidates who were interviewed for the seat. Other applicants included Darron Jurada, a board member of the Cedar Park Parks and Trails Foundation, and Dean Dasher, a former Cedar Park firefighter.<\/p>\n<p>Council approved Darby\u2019s appointment 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>More details<\/p>\n<p>Darby works as the vice president of brand, creative and communications for the Charles Butt Foundation, and has served on multiple school district councils, bond steering committees and campaigns during his 11 years in the city. He is also the chair of Make-a-Wish Central &amp; South Texas and serves on the board of Cedar Park\u2019s Economic Development Sales Tax Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Each candidate was asked the same series of questions, including inquiries about their leadership style, their availability to serve, and the projects and initiatives in the city which they were most excited about.<\/p>\n<p>Darby said the projects he\u2019s most excited about are the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/cedar-park-far-northwest-austin\/development\/2025\/08\/16\/a-regional-destination-texas-second-largest-retail-store-set-to-bring-visitors-to-cedar-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CedarView <\/a>development being built around the upcoming NFM store, the continued revitalization of the Bell District, and the ongoing rezoning and reconstruction of the Lime Creek Quarry, which is being converted into a hub for life science corporations and economic development.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of note<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any grand sweeping change plans or big frustrations I\u2019m looking to solve in six months, but I\u2019ve seen what happens when the city gets mired down in the politics of division and distraction, and also what happens council works together, when staff is empowered and supported and given the resources that they need,\u201d Darby said. \u201cI believe low-drama government paves the way for exciting progress.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cedar Park City Council appointed a new temporary member to serve in its Place 6 seat at its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2536,25736,2143,4519,18104,33062,33063,33064],"class_list":["post-62984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-cedar-park","tag-cedar-park-city-council","tag-central-texas","tag-city-council","tag-city-government","tag-petri-darby","tag-place-6","tag-temporary-appointment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62984","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=62984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}