At least three seats on the seven-member Bainbridge Island City Council will be contested this fall.

Midway through Filing Week for candidates, and two candidates have filed for office in the District 1, District 2 and District 6 positions.

Michael Pollock, a member of the Bainbridge parks board, threw his hat in the ring Monday for the District 6, South Ward council seat.

The seat is currently held by Councilwoman Sarah Blossom, the council’s longest-serving member. Blossom was elected to the council in November 2011.

Pollock is currently a commissioner for the Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park & Recreation District.

He won election to the Position 5 seat in November 2017 by beating longtime incumbent Kirk Robinson. Pollock’s term will expire in 2023.

Pollock has previously served on the Bainbridge city council. He was a councilman from 1999 to 2003.

“I am running for Bainbridge Island City Council to put climate change on our agenda and to address issues of growth, affordability and our ever-increasing tax burden,” Pollock said in his campaign announcement.

“I believe that in cooperation with state and county government, we need to restructure our tax system, streamline permitting, and increase regulatory flexibility,” he added.

Pollock’s current term on the Bainbridge parks board has not been without controversy. During his first year on the board, he missed more commissioner meetings than he attended. Official records show that Pollock missed 11 of 21 park board meetings from January through November 2018, including meetings devoted to adopting the park district’s budgets for 2019 as well as training on Washington state’s public access laws.

Blossom is running for a third term in the South Ward. She filed as a candidate with the Kitsap County Elections Division Monday.

For the North Ward, District 2 position on the council, incumbent Councilman Kol Medina is running for re-election.

Kevin Fetterly is also seeking the post. He filed as a candidate Wednesday.

Fetterly ran for a council seat in November 2017, but came up short against lost in Joe Deets in the race for the District 7, North Ward position.

Three other candidates also filed Monday as candidates for the Bainbridge council.

Anthony Oddo and Kirsten Hytopoulos are both seeking the District 1, at-large council position.

Councilwoman Leslie Schneider, who was appointed to the Central Ward, District 4 seat in April 2018, is running to retain the position.

As of Wednesday, Schneider was the only candidate for the seat.

In other candidate filings, only one of three positions for the Bainbridge Island School Board has two candidates.

Incumbent School Board Member Christina Hulet is running to retain the District 4 position, and is being challenged by Andrew Ewing.

Board Member Lynn Smith is the sole candidate so far for the District 1 position, and Mark D. Emerson is candidate for the District 5 post.

Bainbridge Island Fire Commissioner YongSuk Cho is seeking re-election to the fire department’s board of commissioners, and is facing a challenge for Position 2 from Robert S. Peterson.

Incumbent Ernst “Fritz” von Ibsch will seek to retain his Position 4 seat on the Bainbridge fire department’s board of commissioners.

Dawn Janow, who was appointed to the board of commissioners for the Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park & Recreation District in March, is running to continue serving in Position 1.

For the park board’s Position 3, incumbent Park Commissioner John “Tom” Swolgaard is running for another term.

Rachel Pritchett has also filed as a candidate in the race.