A second volunteer has stepped up to serve on the Bainbridge Island City Council following the resignation of Mike Scott.

Scott resigned his Central Ward position at the end of March after being appointed as a King County Superior Court judge by Gov. Jay Inslee.

The Bainbridge council is expected to appoint a new council member to the Central Ward District 4 seat.

Robert L. Drury, a psychologist and the president of ReThink Health, has submitted an application package to be considered for the post.

Drury is the second candidate for the council seat, and joins former councilman Wayne Roth, who threw his hat in the ring last month.

According to his application packet, Drury has owned property on Bainbridge for some time, but moved to the island five years ago.

A graduate of Pomona College and Washington State University, he has worked as a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently maintains a private clinical practice.

Drury, 71, said his experience in consensus building would be an asset to the city council.

“I have shown in both my professional career and personal life the ability to take ideas which are meritorious and, with the collaboration of others, realize and implement them in practical ways that benefit individuals and communities,” Drury wrote in his council application. “I have a broad training in both professional and scientific functioning, as well as experience in consensus building.”

“My overall goal is to contribute to improving the comprehensive quality of life on Bainbridge while assuring a sustainable relationship with the environment,” Drury added.

When asked, “What is your vision for our city and community?”, Drury responded: “I see Bainbridge as a community which can exemplify the adaptive and necessary changes that are required for us as individuals and a community at a time of serious challenge, not only to our quality of life, but to our existence. I believe this can be accomplished through an engaged program of compassion and mutualism which values the contributions of all.”

The city will continue to accept application packets for the council seat through 4 p.m. Friday, April 13.

The council will conduct candidate interviews at a special city council meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19 and pick a new council member that same evening.

The new council member will take the oath of office at the council meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 24.