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Vernon Mayor Mulls Re-election Bid

Jan 2, 2018 | 8:26 AM

Vernon’s Mayor doesn’t know yet if he’s going to see re-election in the civic vote next October.

Akbal Mund figures on making a decision somewhere around April or May.

“We still got almost 8 months to decide. We’ll see. You know when your kids are getting a little bit older. Now one’s going to be in high school. You want to make sure you have time for them as well too because after high school they’re gone.”

He says he doesn’t want to wait too long, knowing that other people may be considering a run.

“Yeah, and I realize that. So that’s why I was looking at April – May, because you don’t want to decide now and then have people back away. I think it’s important that people run. Let the people decide who should be the Mayor. I have no problem with that.”

Aside from family, Mund says you never know if something else might pop up that he might like to do.