Ten residents have filed their paperwork and signatures to run for five seats on the Sedona City Council next March.

For the two-year council seat, incumbent Dan Surber will be opposed by Dennis Rayner, a retired physicist from the DuPont Corp.

Individuals running for the three four-year council terms are incumbent Nancy Scagnelli, Gina Miller, Jeffrey Siet, Barbara Litrell, Mike Ward and Don McIroy.

The two residents running for mayor are incumbent Rob Adams and current Councilman and former Vice Mayor Jerry Frey. Frey was appointed by the council last week to fill a seat for six months left vacant by the resignation of former Vice Mayor John Bradshaw.

Former City Clerk Pat Sullivan, who is handling the election, said the public has 10 days from Wednesday night, Dec. 9, to question a candidate’s residency. All candidates must have resided in the city limits for a minimum of one year and still live in Sedona.

The city clerk does not require proof of residency from candidates when they file.

The signatures the candidates turned in also still have to be verified.

The packets with at least 198 valid signatures had to be submitted to the city clerk’s office no later than 5 p.m., Dec. 9, and five of them waited until the last hour with one turning in his paperwork with just a few minutes to spare.

Ward and Miller are community activists, McIroy is an attorney and president of the Mingus Mountain Republican Club, Litrell is the former president of Keep Sedona Beautiful and Siet is the owner of a Cottonwood café.

Sullivan said candidates could not submit more than 395 signatures in their packets, which included nomination papers and financial disclosure statements.

The primary election will be Tuesday, March 9, and the general election, if needed, is scheduled for Tuesday, May 18.

There will not be a general election of the two-year council or mayor seats because only two candidates are running, and one candidate for each position will receive more than 50 percent of the vote.

Any candidates running for the four-year council seat who receive 50 percent plus one vote in the primary election will win a seat and not have to run in the general election.