Flowers to seek Post Falls Council seat
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 8 years, 4 months AGO
Flowers
By BRIAN WALKER
Staff Writer
POST FALLS — Bob Flowers hopes his seat at Post Falls City Council meetings will change after Nov. 7.
Flowers, a regular attendee of council meetings the past several years, told The Press on Tuesday that he plans to seek Betty Ann Henderson's seat in the nonpartisan election in November.
"I have come to the conclusion that we need a common-sense touch on the city council," the 61-year-old construction project manager said. "I've watched so many developments get pushed through without any prior thinking. We need growth, but we need controlled growth. I believe I can help with that."
Flowers lost to incumbent Linda Wilhelm in the 2009 election.
Flowers, who grew up in Post Falls, spent three years in the Army. He currently is a project manager for a Spokane firm that grinds and polishes concrete.
Flowers' late father, Bob Sr., started Bob Flowers Construction in Post Falls in the 1960s. He worked for his dad's company off and on, owned a company in Sandpoint that manufactured fishing tackle and was a manager for MasterBrand Cabinets in Hillsboro, Ore., before moving back to Post Falls.
"At Hillsboro, I was responsible for a $1.2 million budget that I had to account for every nickel of," he said. "I had to make some tough decisions — not always something I wanted to do, but something I had to do.
"I've worked with large crews, and I understand money well. Numbers are my friends."
Flowers said he's presented several concerns to the council over the years and some of them have been acted on. One of them was the need for a pavement cut policy that outlines rules utilities, developers and other companies should follow when they need to cut into city streets for installation or replacement projects.
"I'm a working guy, not a bureaucrat," he said.
Flowers becomes the third candidate to announce plans to seek Henderson's seat. Earlier, Steve Anthony and Rick Whitehead said they also intend to file during the filing period from Aug. 28 to Sept. 8. Henderson said she will not seek re-election.
Mayor Ron Jacobson and council members Linda Wilhelm and Alan Wolfe earlier announced they'll seek re-election to their seats.