Two candidates are seeking Oakwood City Council’s Post 1 seat from completely different perspectives. Incumbent Sam Evans has been entrenched in city work since the late 1980s, heading the city planning and zoning board until he became a City Council member in 1998. Challenger Stephen Hendrix has no political experience, although he’s familiar with city politics as his mother-in-law is a former councilwoman and his wife is an Oakwood native.