MODGLIN DOESN'T SEEK REELECTION DUE TO CITY DISAGREEMENTS; FOUR UNOPPOSED AS SCOTT CITY ALDERMEN

SCOTT CITY -- Three City Councilmen and a member of the Police Personnel Board in Scott City will face no opposition in their bids for a seat on the council.

The deadline for filing ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday for four seats on the council, one in each ward. Elections will be held in April.

Councilmen Jim Cauble, Ward Two; Jerry Cummins, Ward Three; and John Smith, Ward Four, have filed for reelection.

For Cauble, who has also served as mayor, it will be his fourth term on the council. Cummins and Smith are each seeking a third term. Both also ran unopposed in 1989.

Ward One Councilman Alvie Modglin did not file for reelection. Brenda Moyers, a member of the city's Police Personnel Board, filed Monday for the Ward One seat.

Modglin, who was mayor in the late 1970's and again from 1984-1988, was elected to the council in 1989 after being defeated in his reelection bid for mayor by Albert Schlenker.

He said he isn't running for another term as councilman because he can't get along with Mayor Shirley Young, who was elected in April, 1990.

"I can't condone the way the city is being run," he said. "And I can't be involved with something I don't approve of. I decided a good while back I wouldn't run again."

Modglin said he feels councilmen don't have an adequate voice in decisions that effect the city. He said the city has "wasted money" on several projects since Young has been in office.

"I just disagree with her," Modglin said.

Moyers, who was appointed to the Police Personnel Board three years ago by then-Mayor Modglin, said she's filed for the position because she "cares about city government.

"Our town is growing and I want to be part of that," she said.

A charter member of the city's Chamber of Commerce, Moyers said as a city council member, she would make economic growth in the city a priority.

Moyers, a resident of Scott City for 21 years, served as chairperson of the fund raising committee for the Citizen's Committee Against the Cape Girardeau-Scott City Annexation in 1988. Modglin was president of that committee.

Moyers is employed at Orthopedic Associates, Inc. in Cape Girardeau.

She has been a member of the Scott City Women's Club for 20 years. She and her husband, James, have two sons, age 22 and 19.

Modglin said he won't rule out running for a city office in the future.

"I always leave the door open," he said.

Because all positions are unopposed, there will be no primary election in the city in March, according to City Clerk Nona Walls.