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Ocean Pines Elections Committee Chairman Steve Habeger last Friday discusses the upcoming election and the advisory panel’s oversight. The group is seeking a fifth member to help oversee the election process and run a pair of candidate forums.

By Josh Davis, Associate Editor

(Jan. 17, 2019) The Ocean Pines Elections Committee is seeking a fifth member following the recent departure of committee member Rick Turner.

Chairman Steve Habeger on Friday said Turner had to leave the committee because he moved out of Ocean Pines. Up to five members are permitted in the committee.

The committee, according to its charter, administers the association voting process, and organizes and conducts candidate forums.

“We do have an opening,” Habeger said, adding that filling the vacancy would be done on a “first come, first served” basis.

The committee is scheduled to meet again on Feb. 8, but committee members did not yet set additional 2019 meeting dates, citing to the need to confer with whoever becomes its fifth member.

To download an advisory committee application, visit www.oceanpines.org/forms-docs-cat/board-member-application. Applications may also be picked up inside the administration building on 239 Ocean Parkway.