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Plant City Commissioner Returns To Office Without Opposition

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By GEORGE WILKENS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 20, 2009

PLANT CITY - Mary Yvette Thomas Mathis was automatically re-elected to the Plant City Commission when the qualification period ended today without the incumbent drawing a challenger.

The lack of challengers also cancels the nonpartisan city election scheduled for April 7.

Mathis announced at the Jan. 26 commission meeting she would seek another three-year term as the Group 5 commissioner.

The qualifying period for election to the post, which pays $9,526 annually, began Monday and expired at noon today.

Mathis has been on the five-member board since January 2000, when she won a special election to complete the term of Sadye Gibbs Martin, who died of cancer two months earlier while in office.

Mathis went on to win the Group 5 seat in the April 2000 municipal election and has won re-election every three years since.

Mathis, assistant principal of curriculum at Giunta Middle School in Riverview, was born in Lakeland but is a longtime Plant City resident. She couldn't be immediately reached today for comment.

She was the only commissioner who faced re-election this year.

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