PORT ANGELES — Making the decision to step down from the Port Angeles City Council at the end of June did not come easily, Brendan Meyer said.

“I thought it was going to be easier than it was,” Meyer said of the conversations they’d been having with themselves over the past two or three months.

“I kept trying to talk myself out of it.”

Dealing with a serious health challenge — they will only say it isn’t cancer — and the stress of their responsibilities serving on the council finally reached a point where Meyer had to consider what was in the best interest of themselves and family members.

It was only after numerous talks with their wife, Hana, and daughter, Kaydnthat Meyer felt ready to make an announcement they dreaded.

But once Meyer did, at the council meeting Tuesday night, they

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