Weissport Council will seat a new council member when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday for the first meeting of 2014.

Brenda Leiby, who won her seat in a write-in campaign during the November election, will be sworn in during at the start of the meeting. She fills the seat vacated by Tim Rehrig, who did not seek re-election.Council members will also reorganize during this meeting.Leiby said she was notified that her write-in campaign was successful by the Carbon County Election Board shortly before Christmas and scurried to complete her paperwork in time to be seated on Monday."I recently retired and I had heard there was an empty seat, so I thought I would run," she said. "It will give me something to do."Leiby said that she has been a resident of Weissport for 24 years.She had been employed as a clerk at Blue Mountain Health System, Gnaden Huetten Campus for the past 38 years. She retired in September."I'm going to take it slow," she said. "At first I want to sit back and observe and see what is going on so I can form an opinion."Leiby said she had heard she was the successful candidate for the seat, but was not officially notified until she received the letter shortly before Christmas."Leiby is a lifelong resident of the area and is a 1969 graduate of Lehighton Area High School.