Ken Steele has announced that he will be seeking the office of mayor of Fayetteville in the upcoming election Nov. 2.

Steele has been involved in local government for a number of years as a member of the Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission, and for the past five years as a city councilman.

Promising a “user-friendly” city government at the least possible cost, Steele said he believes the city should strive to improve its quality of life, not just maintain it.

“We should continually enhance our standards and raise our goals so as to ensure that 20 years hence Fayetteville will still be a community where our children and grandchildren will want to settle and raise a family,” said Steele.

He pointed with pride to the fact that the city has lowered its property tax rate in each of the five years that he has served on City Council, adding that his goal is to eliminate property taxes “in the not too distant future.”

“With the support of family and many friends throughout the community,” Steele said he looks forward “to a vigorous campaign this fall.”

Steele and his wife of 35 years, Debbie, a retired school teacher, are long time residents of the city. A Navy veteran of the Vietnam war, Steele will soon retire from a 30-year career with Delta Air Lines.

The Steeles have three grown children and two grandchildren