HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Holland Mayor Nancy DeBoer said she’s been so busy with a series of intense public meetings aimed at reinventing the city’s planning, zoning and design rules as well as whipping up a new waterfront, she’d hardly had time to think about a 2019 re-election campaign.
That changed yesterday, with Holland attorney Nathan Bocks announcement that he plans to run for the mayoral seat.
Stepping out of Tuesday night’s Unified Development Ordinance — public meetings which started Monday, continue today, Nov. 14, 2018, and wrap on Thursday — the two-term mayor sighed, shrugged and said, yes, she’s running for a third term.
“I will be. I just wanted to get that out there,” she said. “I guess my opponent announced that he will be running. It’s kind of early for Holland. But, he decided that today is the day he wanted to announced, so, that’s his privilege.”
Bocks will be her third challenger. She narrowly beat current councilman Jay Peters in 2017.
