Diane Velazquez is headed back to the Apopka City Council.
In the Tuesday, December 8, runoff election for Seat 2 on the Apopka City Council, Velazquez defeated Yesenia “Jesi” Baron. Velazquez received 3,374 votes (58.36 percent) to 2,407 votes (41.64 percent) for Baron as 16.34 percent of Apopka’s 35,426 voters cast their ballots.
Velazquez will be sworn in at the beginning of the Wednesday, December 16, City Council meeting, and take her seat on the dais afterward.
Velazquez served her first term as commissioner for Seat 2 from 2014 to 2018. She ran for re-election in 2018 but eventually lost in a runoff to Alice Nolan. Nolan served a little more than two years of her four-year term in Seat 2 when she vacated the seat earlier this year due to her diagnosis and treatment for lung cancer.
Velazquez said one of the first things she’d do as commissioner is sit down with City Administrator Edward Bass and be brought up to date on what development projects are currently seeking city approval.
This story appears in full starting on page 1A of the Friday, December 11, issue of The Apopka Chief. The Apopka Chief and The Planter are weekly community newspapers, independently owned and family operated, that have served the greater Apopka area in Central Florida since 1923 and 1965 respectively. Subscribe today!
