Bill Stevens named mayor of Dewey Beach

Dewey Beach commissioners voted unanimously to elect Bill Stevens to a one-year term as mayor at town council’s yearly organizational meeting Sept. 26.

Commissioners-elect Paul Bauer, Elisabeth Gibbings and David Jasinski were each sworn in for two-year terms during the meeting; Bauer was also unanimously elected to a one-year term as council secretary.

The municipal election was canceled this year, since no one but incumbents Bauer and Jasinski and newcomer Gibbings filed for the three open seats. Former Mayor Dale Cooke announced in June that he would not run for re-election.

Stevens was first elected in 2020; he had served as commissioner liaison to the budget and finance committee, and investment committee. First elected in 2017, Bauer won another two-year term in 2019; he has served as council secretary for three years and is commissioner liaison to the marketing committee.

Jasinski has previously served partial terms as commissioner. In May 2020, commissioners voted to elect him to serve the remainder of former Mayor TJ Redefer’s commissioner term and in 2014, council also selected Jasinski to serve for the remainder of former Commissioner Ellen Danaher’s term.