Meredith defeats Culver for city council seat

Be final next tuesday at noon.

Moving on to the runoff in huntsville for the city council district 5 seat.

John meredith defeated 3-time incumbent - will culver - tonight.

Meredith recieved 61- percent of the votes.

We continue our team coverage with waay 31's megan reyna now.

She's live outside city hall after speaking with meredith on his vision for moving forward on city council.

Megan?

Meredith was confident going into tonight he would defeat three-term councilman will culver -- and he did just that.

This isn't the first time he's run against culver.

He challenged him back in 2016.

Now as far as what he envisions doing on city council -- he told me he wants to focus on road projects within district 5 -- specifically focusing on the completion of zierdt and martin roads -- and repaving old roads.

Meredith also added tonight he will work to facilitate black lives matter reforms with the huntsville police department.

"but district 5 is where i live, and to me, i was a dissatisfied constituent, so im going to take some of those things like the transparency, accessibility, the accountability and bring that to my service.

So, i think those are the big things that voters have identified with and put me over the top " meredith told me he wants those who supported culver to know he does not intend to undo any work he has done.

He adds he has an open door policy and welcomes any feedback from the community.

Reporting live in hsv mr waay 31 news