Twelve candidates seeking to fill an open seat on the Port of Palm Beach Commission will have to wait another month as port commissioners deadlocked 2-2 Thursday on how to proceed with the selection.
While Commissioners Wayne Richards and Varisa Dass wanted to narrow the list and find a way to agree on a single candidate, Chair Blair Ciklin, supported by Vice Chair Deandre Poole, suggested taking a single vote to see if any of the 12 candidates could muster three votes.
If that failed, Ciklin said, he would support accepting new applications as he had heard from several people who were interested in the job but missed the Feb. 19 deadline to apply…