Deputy Mayor Bob Baggett took to Facebook on Tuesday evening to announce his intention to run for a second term on the Auburn City Council.

“Friends, family, and the many residents in our wonderful city of Auburn, Washington, after much consideration, I have decided to run for reelection to the Auburn City Council, Position 7 in 2019. I will be registering with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) very soon,” Baggett wrote.

Baggett, elected in 2015, said much work remains to be done in a city of 80,000-plus residents, which will cross the 100,000 mark in only a few years.

Baggett said the announcement follows hard on the heels of Covington Mayor Jeff Wagner’s own declaration.

“For the past three years, I have served as your councilmember and for 2018 as your deputy mayor. Your City Council has approved a new biennial budget for 2019-2020 that represents sound fiscal responsibility by our mayor and City department directors to move our city forward.

“I want to thank my wife Pattee for her continued love and support, my many friends and colleagues at the city for their valued mentorship and guidance, and to the voters in our city who placed their confidence in me in 2015 when I was elected to this office,” Baggett wrote.

Baggett, a Boeing retiree, ran unopposed in 2015 for the council seat formerly held by Wayne Osborne, who did not run for reelection. Like Osborne, he, too, had served on the Auburn Planning Commission.