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The following e-mail was sent out late Wednesday afternoon by Wichita city officials:

Interviews with District I Wichita City Council candidates scheduled for this evening and Thursday have been postponed until further notice.
The interviews will be held at the Atwater Neighborhood City Hall, 2755 E 19th Street North.
District Advisory Board members will conduct the interviews and host any follow-up meetings over the next few weeks. The District I DAB will submit four to five names for City Council members to consider at the May 15 Council meeting. A majority council vote will determine who will be the next District I Council member.

KCTU has learned that an additional person, Urban League head Bryan Black, had been reportedly added to the selection process. Black is not a resident of District I.
After at least one of the candidates complained to several city council members, and contacts to City Attorney Gary Rebenstorf allegedly went unanswered,
the e-mail was distributed to reporters at 5 PM, 90 minutes before the first round of interviews was to begin.
--R.J. Dickens