The Bainbridge Island City Council will interview all 10 candidates for the vacant South Ward seat at a council study session in May.

The council, at a meeting held this week on Zoom video conferencing, reviewed a proposed process to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Matthew Tirman in late February.

The proposed path to seating a seventh councilmember would take two rounds.

The first would be at a council study session on Tuesday, May 5, where the candidates will be interviewed and five finalists picked.

The process laid out so far would give each candidate 5 minutes to give a prepared statement, followed by a single question from councilcmembers to the candidate.

The council would then go into a closed executive session for an hour to talk about the candidates, then return to a public session to fill out a ballot with each councilmembers’ top three choices for the appointment.

Points for the candidates would be tallied by the deputy city attorney, and the top five candidates would be declared finalists.

At the following council meeting on Tuesday, May 12, the proposed process would repeat, with each candidate giving prepared remarks, followed by questions from councilmembers.

A 20-minute executive session would follow, with the council returning to open session and voting on a ballot for their top three choices.

The new councilmember would take the oath of office at the council meeting on Tuesday, May 19.