Former longtime Concord City Councilman and Mayor Dan Helix is being remembered by local elected officials following his death Wednesday at the age of 91.

U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Walnut Creek, himself a former Concord councilman, noted that Helix was first elected to the Concord City Council in 1968 and served for eight years before also serving on the BART Board of Directors. He returned to the City Council as an appointee in 2010 and won election again in 2012.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.