CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – As she mounted a write-in campaign to try to win a seat on Scottsville’s Town Council last year, Molly Angevine found herself having the same conversation with area residents over and over.

They told her they’d love to vote for her, but since they lived outside of Scottsville’s town proper, they don’t have a vote in the town’s elections.

Angevine, who Tuesday won election as a council member after an official 2025 campaign, wants to change that.

“I’m looking at all these people who don’t have a voice in their government,” Angevine told Cville Right Now on Thursday.

Angevine said that while the town’s population is 524, there are another over 7,200 residents who consider themselves from Scottsville, despite not technically living within the town’s official borders.

Angevine said she’d like to study ways to eventually bring them into the town and allow them to vote in town elections, but with legal obstacles, for now, she wants to pursue other avenues to help them feel connected to their community.

“I want to create committees and events to bring them in,” Angevine said. “We’re not looking to create an urban sprawl. We’re looking to bring our community in to have a voice in our government.”

That’s the first item among the priorities Angevine wants to work on as a council member, a list that includes reviving the town’s emergency preparedness committee, increasing government transparency and finding revenue sources to help avoid tax hikes.

Angevine lost her write-in bid for a vacant seat last year, being defeated by Edward Payne Jr. This time around, she ran a full-fledged campaign and defeated Payne, 125-90. (Payne was running for a full-term this time around.)

Scottsville is a multi-county district. Angevine won 120-90 among Albemarle County voters, and 5-4 among Fluvanna County voters.

Angevine is a 1988 Randolph-Macon College graduate who has lived in Scottsville since 2017. She has worked at UVA since 2005 and is currently a communications associate at the university.

She also is the chairperson of the Scottsville planning commission and said she’s looking forward to reviewing the comprehensive plan that commission authored in her new role on council.

“I’ll write it and then I’ll review it,” Angevine said. “It’s really exciting what those ideas can bring, too. It will address about everything.”

Angevine praised the town’s work in a flood preparedness plan but said there are more concerns and things to be ready for, which is why she’d like to bring back the Emergency Preparedness Committee that was dissolved in August.

Angevine said she’d be willing to work in a leadership role on that committee to get it back on track.

“I think there was a lot of controversy surrounding the dissolution of that committee,” Angevine said. “I think it’s too important to put it by the wayside. I will champion it.”

Angevine said she spent Election Day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the polls, meeting and greeting voters. Once the polls closed, she said she didn’t bother keeping tabs on the results, but she was far from in the dark.

She said community members texted her updates and one even sent a photo of Angevine’s name on the television scroll at the bottom of the screen, a thrill because Angevine recalled growing up watching the results of presidential elections that way.

She received and responded to so many text messages Tuesday night, she woke up Wednesday morning with sore thumbs.