Between his time as a staffer and as a councilman, Zane Logan has over three decades of experience with the City of Powell. He’s poised to continue that service for another four years.

While this year drew an unprecedented number of candidates for the city council, Logan went unchallenged in Ward 2 and is unopposed in next week’s general election.

“There’s always things that we need to work on. There’s always compromises,” Logan said at a Monday night candidate forum, “but I just feel like we have a great community, and I want to serve to continue that.”

His time with the city started in 1992, when he became Powell’s electrical superintendent. Logan was promoted to city administrator in 2005 and served in that role through his 2019 retirement.

He joined the council in 2021, being picked to replace outgoing Councilman Scott Mangold, who became a county commissioner. Voters elected Logan to the seat in 2022 and this would be his second full term.

Logan described city work as a matter of “working together.”

Logan believes the city does a good job of communicating with the public — though he would like to see the return of live video coverage of the council’s meetings.

“We’ve talked about that [and] would like to look at that, possibly,” he said.

Logan noted that, years ago, the meetings were broadcast on a public access channel run by the telecommunications company TCT. Currently, the city records the audio of its meetings and posts the recordings online.

Logan’s contact information is also listed on the city’s website and he said he responds to inquiries as soon as he can.

“We want the public’s input,” he added. “That’s what we’re here to do, is to serve and know which direction you want.”

The city got quite a bit of input this year as it revised its pet ordinances — relaxing some restrictions for indoor animals and effectively banning exotic ones — and created some new basic requirements for e-bikes and other electric devices.

Logan said the city was proactive in addressing e-bikes and believes the community supported the rules. As for the pet ordinances, “I believe we got where we need to be,” he said, “which wasn’t a whole lot different.”

Overall, Powell is much different from it was in Logan’s first days with the city government. That’s something he’s noted as the council prepares to update the city’s 1997 master plan.

“Powell has changed, but the one thing I don’t want to change is our community,” Logan said, citing the value of things like clean streets lined by curbs and gutters.

“There has to be a way to move forward, but maintain the quality of life and the look and pride in Powell that we have,” Logan added. “And I think that can be done.”

Ward 2 includes the portion of the city west of Division Street.