Anaheim filled its vacant District 2 seat on the city council Sept. 14 with Gloria Ma’ae, a local neighborhood advocate who has served on various city commissions and boards. Ma’ae was chosen out of a selection of 10 applicants applying for the seat, which came after former Councilman Jordan Brandman resigned in August. Ma’ae was approved in a 4-2 vote, with Councilmen Jose Moreno and Avelino Valencia disagreeing on how the applicants were interviewed by individual councilmembers, rather than with the entire council together, saying the process was unfair to all candidates. “I’ve been involved in a lot of searches over the years,” Moreno said during the council meeting. “And one of the things that’s an important ethic in searches is that all candidates are actually sitting and interviewed by the people making the vote together so that everyone is hearing the same responses, everyone’s getting the same questions, so …