Some prominent political seats in Southfield will start the new year with new occupants.
The election in November of former Southfield city councilman Jeremy Moss to the Michigan House of Representatives left a vacancy that was filled today with the appointment of former council candidate Lloyd Crews.
Crews will serve through November 2015 to fill the remainder of Moss’ term, a city news release said.
Crews was the top vote-getter among unsuccessful candidates who ran for the Southfield City Council in November 2013, according to the Oakland County Elections Division. He has been a campus dean with Oakland Community College for the last 12 years and in August became a tenured professor of political science at OCC, the news release said.
Crews was sworn in this afternoon by Acting Mayor Donald Fracassi, 79, who will be acting mayor until November 2015 because the city’s mayor Brenda Lawrence soon will begin serving her first term in the U.S. Congress.
After the swearing-in, Fracassi said that Crews, 40, was “a great young man who’ll do well” on the City Council. Crews “handled himself very well” when he ran for a council seat last year, Fracassi added.
