A whopping 27 residents of the Salt Lake City Council’s District 4 have applied to fill the spot left open when former council member Eva Lopez Chavez was ousted last month.

City Recorder Keith Reynolds posted the list Tuesday following Monday’s deadline for applying to fill the mid-term vacancy — and after verifying applicants’ eligibility and getting disclosure forms from each on their potential conflicts of interest.

Their names and disclosures are available online at slc.gov/midtermvacancy.

Lopez Chavez was removed from the seat May 12 after Reynolds determined she had failed to maintain a residence in the district at least since December. She had also been suspended from key duties on the council by that time, following allegations of sexual misconduct weeks earlier.

The former council member and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress denies wrongdoing and has vowed that she will contest the residency decision.

With a long roster of applicants now in hand — and under a timetable set by state law — council members are now on the hook for reviewing the applications, hearing five-minute public presentations from each of the candidates and appointing one of them by June 11, with a simple majority vote.

Those interviews are scheduled for June 9, with potential for more on June 11.

Notable applicants include Ana Valdemoros, who represented the downtown-centered council district before she lost at the polls to Lopez Chavez in 2023.

Valdemoros, owner of Argentina’s Best Empanadas, was originally appointed to the council in early 2019 to replace Derek Kitchen after he was elected to the Utah Senate. She then won a four-year term that fall.

Clayton Scrivner, the communications director for Park City who also lost to Lopez Chavez in 2023’s ranked choice contest, has applied to fill the opening as well.

So has Jennifer Napier-Pierce, former editor for The Salt Lake Tribune and ex-senior adviser to Gov. Spencer Cox. She is now chief of staff for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation.

There is also one current member of the city’s planning commission, Lilah Gulick Rosenfield, and one former commission member, Brenda Case Scheer, seeking the open spot.

Tom Merrill, a former chair of the Downtown Community Council, as well as Austin Taylor, current chair of the Central City Neighborhood Council, and that council’s vice chair, Jennifer Starley, are also on the list.

Additional applicants include Benjamin Draleau; Dane Ishihara; Gavin Serr; George Hofmann; Javier Chavez Jr.; Jeffrey R. Wilbur; John Carlos Hamilton; John Phillips; Julian Jurkoic; Kallin Neva Glauser; Kaytlynn Scott; Kyle Scott Bradell; Nathan Carlin; Nicholas Pensari; Pamela Silberman; Scott Lyttle; Sione Latapu; Ta’Mariah Jenkins; and Thomas Christiansen.

Whomever council members choose, that person will fill out the remainder of the term. The seat will then appear on the city’s 2027 municipal election ballot.