Long-time Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard is expected to announce this week that he is not seeking re-election.
Brainard is Carmel’s first seven-term mayor.
The announcement will officially be made Tuesday at 2 p.m. outside Carmel City Hall.
There are no declared candidates, but several likely replacements for Brainard are Carmel City Council Member and businessman Kevin “Woody” Rider and Sue Finkam, and former Hamilton GOP Chairwoman Laura Campbell.
On the Democrat side, Carmel City Council member Miles Nelson is a possible contender as well as his sister and Carmel School Board member Jenny Nelson-Williams.
