Three very different candidates are running for Position 2 with the Marysville City Council. Any one of them would make a fine council member.

Donna Wright, the incumbent, has been on the council for 24 years. As a result she is involved in many committees at the national, regional, state and local levels. Her record speaks for itself.

Jason Call is a math teacher who says he is very “green” and has many ideas on a lot of things. Businessman Mark James is somewhere in the middle, supports term limits and says it’s time for a change. We would agree, if we had any issues with Wright. But we don’t. She is one of the more-active members on the council. To endorse someone other than the incumbent in this case would be change for the sake of change.

Both Call and James were complimentary of Wright in an interview with our editorial board. Neither even hinted that she wasn’t doing a good job or that they disagree with her on any major issues.

Call even admitted he would have rather run for the school board. Many of the ideas he talked about we agree with, but they are beyond the scope of a city councilman. In fact, many of his issues were more appropriate for a state lawmaker position.

James, to his credit, has been attending council meetings for about a year to hone up on city government. He is very involved in the community and wants to join the “A Team” that governs Marysville. Wright said she contemplated retirement, which was a concern at first. But then she quickly became energized when talking about the issues she wants to continue working on.

Wright said her main issues are public safety, health and transportation. Her opponents could have used those topics to challenge her but chose not to, to our surprise.

The public safety building desperately needs to be replaced, sexually transmitted diseases and opioid abuse are up and growth has occurred so fast that infrastructure, especially roads, have not kept pace, leading to gridlock at times.

Wright is proud that the City Council has built up reserves to buy items with cash to save money on interest. She also is proud that the council has not taken the 1 percent property tax increase allowed by law in any of the last seven years.

While that is great for taxpayers now, it is shortsighted as in the future taxpayers will have to pay more to replace worn-out buildings and systems. Things almost always cost more the longer we wait to replace them. Taxpayers won’t like that as they have been paying lower taxes than most for a long time. For example, notice how badly taxpayers shot down the school bonds.

Wright wants to keep working on more cops on the street, manufacturing jobs north of the city and better train safety. She also wants to continue to improve the city’s waterfront. One could ask why hasn’t she addressed those issues already in her 24 years? The fireworks ban could have been another issue of contention.

But her opponents did not challenge Wright on any of that. All three agree that the city should pay its fair share to help the Snohomish Health District operate, for example. That actually is in opposition to what many on the current council think. One issue there is disagreement on is a Regional Fire Authority. James and Call are for it because it reportedly would provide better service at lower costs. But Wright said while she likes the concept Arlington has not shown much support for fire service in the past, so she is still undecided.

Wright has served the city well. She has not done anything that would show she needs to be replaced. And neither challenger proved they could do better in her place. So another vote for Wright would be right for the city.