As municipal elections approach, The Associated Press

Oakley has two city council vacancies to fill in November, but no one has filed the papers to be placed on the ballot, and the deadline for write-in candidacy looms ever closer.

Mayor Garth Greenwell says he hopes somebody will come forward. If nobody does, the two council seats will remain vacant, and on Jan. 1 Greenwell will work with the rest of the council to appoint someone to fill each vacancy, attorney Steve Tuft says.

"Even if there is not enough council members to constitute a quorum, government cannot be shut down," Tuft says. "So it will be up to the remaining council members and the mayor to appoint someone if no election is held in November."