COFFEYVILLE — One week after being unable to agree to appoint a person to a vacant Coffeyville Community College trustee position, CCC trustees have declared an impasse on the trustee appointment.

Trustees have reopened the solicitation of interested CCC patrons in filling the trustee position that was vacated with the resignation of trustee Ron Allison earlier in the year. Any qualified elector in the CCC tax district (of voting age and residing within the CCC district, which includes the communities of Coffeyville, Caney, Tyro and Dearing) can submit his or her name for consideration. The trustees will provide an opportunity for candidates to address the board at its next public meeting at 4 p.m., Monday, Oct. 25.

Whomever is chosen for the vacant trustee position will serve until July 1, 2011. The new appointee will have the option of filing a formal election petition and placing his or her name on the ballot in the spring of 2011.  A total of four elected seats for the CCC board of trustees will be up for re-election in the spring.

Anyone interested in being considered for the CCC board of trustee appointment should contact the college’s legal counsel, Doug Ott, at 815 Union Street in Coffeyville or call (620) 251-1300.

At the trustee meeting on Monday, Sept. 20, trustees were deadlocked on a 2-2 vote whether to appoint Max Williams or Dick Robison, both of Coffeyville, to the vacant trustee position. Trustee member Blake Allen did not issue a vote in the appointment. One other area resident, Dickie Rolls of Caney, also submitted his name for consideration to the trustee position but did not garner enough support among trustees.