By SCOTT D. JOHNSTON

For GH Newspaper Group

Ocean Shores City Council member Holly Plackett has resigned her position, effective Tuesday, July 24, the day after the next Council meeting. By then, she and her husband, Mark, will be living in Kona, Hawaii.

It was already well known in the North Coast community that the couple has been planning a move to Hawaii, where they hope to establish a “family compound” that will eventually go to their children. Plackett told the North Coast News that the timing of her resignation from the seat she was elected to in November, 2015, was dictated by the final closing of the sale of their house in Ocean Shores.

“I didn’t want to resign my City Council seat a moment too soon,” she said. “I worked too hard for it … and without the proceeds of the house, we weren’t going anywhere.”

Mayor Chrystal Dingler has created a set of suggested guidelines for the process of the council selecting a replacement, who will serve through 2019, when four council positions will be on the November general election ballot. That topic will be on the July 23 council agenda, and the council will ultimately decide on the procedure, subject to existing state law.

Any applicant must have at least one year of full-time residency in the city at the time of appointment, must be a current registered voter in this district and be able to serve out the term until the November 2019 election certification.