The Ypsilanti Courier
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Write-in wins in Willow Run
By Dan DuChene, Staff Writer
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2007
Write-in candidate Harold Wimberly beat out both candidates listed on the ballot in Willow Run's School Board election Tuesday by 236 votes.
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Though the election results are still unofficial until they are verified by Washtenaw County later this week, according to Jason Brooks of the Washtenaw County Clerk's Office, 100 percent of the precincts have reported as of press time.
The two listed candidates, Travis Greer and Kristine Thomas, have both served on Willow Run's board within the last year.
Greer, a senior at Willow Run High School, was appointed to the seat Wimberly won earlier this year. He lost by nine votes.
Thomas lost her seat in the election last year, but served an appointed position on the board for a partial term. She won 192 votes.
In Lincoln Consolidated Schools' election, Kimberly Samuelson, the board president, kept her seat for another term with 967 votes. The other seat, currently held by Jeffery Stokes, the board's secretary, was taken by Lincoln High School graduate and University of Michigan sophomore Jeremy Keeney with 935 votes.
The remaining candidate, Jason Salhaney, won 516 votes in the election. Stokes did not run for re-election.
Lincoln had two millage proposals on the ballot Tuesday. Of which, only one had passed.
The district's first proposal, which restores mills lost from a reduction required by the state, passed by a 7.8 percent margin. The proposal maintains current millage levels and does not increase taxes for many residents. The seven-year millage is expected to collect $438,484 in its first year.
The recreation millage, Lincoln's second proposal, lost by a 1.18 percent margin, or 20 votes. The millage would have earmarked .25 mils for the purposes of maintaining Lincoln's recreation programming, including the district's senior center, which the district cut last year. The 20-year proposal was expected to generate $239,805 for the community programs its first year.
In Ypsilanti, school board members Floyd Brumfield and Andrew Fanta were both re-elected to their seats. Both candidates ran unopposed.
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