Ward 6 Ald. Jenn Carrillo intends to step down from the Bloomington City Council, effective at the end of August.
Carrillo, who identifies under the they/them pronoun, confirmed the anticipated move to The Pantagraph on Monday afternoon, hours before the council was set to meet for its monthly work session.
Elected in 2019, the first-term council member said they haven’t submitted a formal resignation letter to Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe, but that they planned to file it sometime this week.
Carrillo, 31, said they were forced to surrender their seat on the council because they will no longer live within the boundaries of Ward 6. City code mandates that a council member “live in the ward from which he or she is elected.”
The residence where Carrillo has rented an apartment for the past three years was sold in May, and they were unable to find another apartment or house within the ward.
Ward 6 covers most of downtown Bloomington and the neighborhoods south of Washington Street and west of Morris Avenue.
