Monday was the deadline for candidates to file for the April 7 municipal elections.

In Waterloo, Mayor Tom Smith is up for re-election, as is City Clerk Barbara Pace and Treasurer Brad Papenberg. The city aldermanic seats currently held by Steve Notheisen (Ward 1), Jim Hopkins (Ward 2), Charlie Metzger (Ward 3) and Clyde Heller (Ward 4) are also up for election.

With the exception of Metzger, all of those city officials have filed for re-election. Stan Darter has filed for candidacy as alderman in Ward 3.

Waterloo school board members currently seated with terms expiring for the April 7 election are Valerie Baxmeyer (Township 2-9), JoEllen Burton (Township 2-9), Suzanne Sweet (Township 3-10) and Dwight Schaefer (Township 2-10). Not more than three school board members may be selected from any one congressional township.

Baxmeyer and Burton filed for re-election, but Sweet and Schaefer have not. Those filing to run for the to-be-vacated spots are Lori Dillenberger, former school board member Alan Horn, Jim Yaekel and Gary Most.

In Columbia, the city aldermanic seats currently held by Steven Reis (Ward 1), TJ Mathews (Ward 2), Jeff Huch (Ward 3) and Steve Holtkamp (Ward 4) are up for election.

Reis, Holtkamp and Huch have filed for re-election, but Mathews has not. Kevin Marten has filed for candidacy as alderman in Ward 2.

The Columbia school board will have two incorporated seats and one unincorporated seat up for election. Marshal Stout (unincorporated), Randy Simmonds and Scott Middelkamp currently occupy those seats.

Simmonds and Middelkamp have filed for re-election, but Stout has not. Tammy Mitchell Hines has also filed for candidacy on the school board.

In Valmeyer, the seats currently occupied by Virginia Rusteberg, Zoe Ann Schwarze, Kim Franke and Joseph Andres are up for election on the school board.

Rusteberg, Schwarze and Franke have filed for re-election, but Andres has not.  Andrea Blackwell officially filed as a school board candidate.

For the list of those who have filed to run for the Valmeyer, Hecker, Fults and Maeystown village boards as well as for the Waterloo Park District board, read next week’s paper.