In the Tybee Island Council chambers Tuesday night, residents packed into seats like sardines for the candidate forum ahead of elections in November. Some attendees leaned against walls. Everyone was eager to hear from the nine candidates vying for just three seats.

“[Decisions] impact us more than they would if we lived in a large city with thousands of people or i we lived in an isolated, rural area,” said Forever Tybee Chair Shirley Wright at the end of the forum. “We have the privilege of a plurality election, to vote for the exact three people we trust to sit here, to make decisions to consider first, the impact on the people who live here.”

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