Springfield To Select Interim Mayor
Mayor Timothy Davlin Committed Suicide Earlier This Month
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) -- Springfield aldermen plan to select an interim mayor to replace Mayor Timothy Davlin, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Dec. 14.
The Springfield City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday evening. The interim mayor will serve until a new mayor is elected in April.
The law gives the council 60 days to select an interim mayor. But The Springfield State Journal-Register reports that aldermen say they need someone in place sooner because of the serious budget issues the city is facing.
On the day he committed suicide, Davlin had been scheduled to appear in court to address questions about his handling of the estate of a cousin who died in 2003.
Davlin had been mayor of the city with 120,000 residents since April 2003. He told Springfield radio station WFMB last month that he would not seek a third four-year term next spring because he wanted to leave office before getting burned out. Davlin, who had four children and four grandchildren, insisted then that financial issues had nothing to do with that decision involving the nonpartisan post he called "grueling."
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