14 file for Metropolitan Water Reclamation District board

Fourteen people - 10 Democrats and four Green Party candidates - filed candidacy paperwork at 9 a.m. Monday to run for four open seats on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District board of commissioners.

Up for grabs this year are three 6-year terms and one 2-year term, the latter created when former Commissioner Patrick Daley Thompson (former Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew) was elected to the Chicago City Council from the 11th Ward.

Running so far for the three 6-year terms are Democratic incumbents Barbara McGowan and Mariyana T. Spyropoulos; Democrats Patricia Horton, Josina Morita, Kevin McDevitt, Joseph Daniel Cook, Martin J. Durkan and R. Cary Capparelli (who ran as a Republican in 2014); and Green Party candidates Karen Roothaan, George Milkowski and Michael Smith.

The third incumbent member, Michael A. Alvarez, did not file Monday. All candidates have until the close of business Nov. 30 to file their paperwork.

For the 2-year term, candidates so far are Democrats Tom Greenhaw and Andrew Seo, and Green Party candidate David Guran.

McGowan is the board's current vice president and has been on the board since 1998. Spyropoulos, the president, was appointed to the board in 2009 and won a full 6-year term in 2010. Both live in Chicago.

Horton, a Chicago Democrat, won a 6-year term on the board in 2006 but lost her re-election bid in 2012. She did not run in 2014.

Capparelli, of Chicago's Northwest Side, is the son of longtime Democratic state Rep. Ralph Capparelli.

Morita, a Skokie Democrat, ran for and lost the Democratic primary in 2014. McDevitt, new to the race, lives in Southwest suburban Worth.

Of the four Green Party candidates Roothaan, Milkowski and Smith live in Chicago. Guran lives in Evanston.

Democrats McGowan, Spyropoulos and Morita are running as a slate and have been endorsed by the party. Greenhaw has received the party's endorsement for the 2-year term.