Mountain Brook residents will vote on two city council seats on Aug. 26. Candidates Gerald Garner and David Silverstein are running to represent Place 2.

The candidates shared why they’re running with Village Living.

Q: What are your priorities for managing stormwater and mitigating flooding concerns in the city?

Garner: That’s always a big concern. We’ve seen 100-year-plus floods in the past couple of years, and those things happen. We’ve tried to work through it. We’ve done a lot of improvements, especially by the junior high school, because that’s where those big floods hit — and they really affected the church. But sometimes you need cooperation, and you don’t always get it. Our engineers are constantly looking for ways we can improve. But sometimes there’s no clear-cut way to miti

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