Tom Potter may be announcing his reelection (or retirement) plans tomorrow morning, but that hardly ends the waiting for the growing slate of potential candidates for city council. After 11:30 tomorrow morning, they’ll be waiting on just one person, Commissioner Sam Adams, to decide on his plans.

If Potter retires after his current term is up, there a strong chance he’ll run for mayor. There’s also a chance he’ll stay where he’s at, given how much he appears to enjoy his job. Either way, his announcement may not come for another week, one of his staffers tells me. (I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if it was less than a week.)

If the stars align, and Adams leaves his seat to run for another office, the field of potential candidates has grown by one—Jeff Bissonnette, organizing director of the Citizens’ Utility Board, says he’s considering a run. Like every other potential candidate except for Charles Lewis, Bissonnette says he’ll only run if there’s an open seat.

At CUB, Bissonnette lobbies governments for energy utility policies that are fair to Oregon residents and are environmentally responsible. Beyond CUB, he’s spent his career doing consumer protection work, and even helped the failed statewide campaign to end the death penalty. He says he’s running for office to help keep Portland on the “forefront of progressive government” and for the ability to not only advocate for progressive policies, but draft them, vote on them, implement them, and, thanks to Portland’s form of government, oversee the bureaucracies that are responsible for carrying out the policies. For a lobbyist, that power probably seems like a dream come true.

Bissonnette, who was at the airport getting ready to leave for his belated honeymoon when we talked on Saturday, plans to use the city’s Voter-Owned Elections program if he runs. That should make the program’s supporters happy—every potential candidate for city council so far has said they’ll try for the public campaign funds. That means the program will get a helluva workout next year—assuming Potter retires and Adams runs for mayor.