Unofficial numbers in for city council, supervisors, school boards, unicameral
The David City Auditorium saw a lot of faces on Nov. 5 as voters from across the area cast their ballots for multiple local, state and national races.
On the local level, the David City City Council welcomes back the first ward's Jim Angell with 241 votes to Matt Fleming's 134 and the third ward's Bruce Meysenburg who received 358 votes. It will also see a new face with Rick Holland joining as the second ward's representative with 285 votes to Skip Trowbridge's 113.
Of the five options for the David City School board, three were voted in: Justin Krafka with 1,585 votes, Donald L. Moravec Jr. with 1,526 and Marcus Thoendel with 1,451.
East Butler School Board North's Laurie Smaus received 21 votes to Kim TePoel's 7, East Butler Middle's Megan Kozisek won unopposed with 318 votes and East Butler Couth's Brandon Jisa also won unopposed with 306 votes.
The Shelby Rising City School Board welcomes Geoffrey Ruth, Kasey Hopwood and Denise Thelen for the next term.
David Polacek and Dennis M. Polacek were voted into the Abie village board with 31 votes each. Bellwood's village board's Scott Romshek and Lee Nickolite were voted in with 147 and 15 votes, respectively. Brainard's Randy Robeson and Steve Hummel were voted in with 145 and 182, respectively. Dwight will see James A Mastny and Clinton Maaske on the village board with 110 and 79 votes, respectively,
Garrison's village board saw 35 write-in votes.
Linwood's Will Eaton was voted to the village board with 23 votes, and Octavia's Eileen Kopecky and Angie Siebken to their village board with 36 and 23 votes, respectively. Rising City's Craig Topil received 165 votes and Randy Wingard 158, adding them to the board and Surprise's Zemua Baptista joins the village board with 16 votes alongside Karl C. Gaiser and Roger Hulinsky, who both received 13. Lastly, Ulysses will welcome Donald J Hayek with 58 votes, Mark A Kinnett with 46 and Joseph Soukup with 38.
At the county level, Tony Krafka received 512 votes to secure a term representing District 2 as a county supervisor. Robert W. Coufal received 426 for District 4 and Bradley W. Vandenberg received 605 for District 6.
For Legislative District 23, representing the district as a state senator, Jared Storm received 1,863 votes to Dennis C. Fujan's 1,413.
Initiative Measure 434, dubbed Protect Women and Children, would ban abortion in Nebraska after 12 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest and medical emergencies. In Butler County it received 551 For votes to 268 Against.
Referendum measure 435, which would repeal a state-funded scholarship program for private and parochial school students, received 2,211 retain votes to 2,053 repeal votes.
Initiative 436 which would require employers to provide paid sick leave for workers with lower requirements for smaller employers received 2,905 For votes and 1,223 against.
Initiative 437 is the first of two measures that would legalize medical marijuana and set up a structure regulating its use, which received 2,492 For votes and 1,683 against. The second measure, 438, received 2,307 For votes and 1,821 Against.
Initiative Measure 439, or Protect the Right to Abortion, would provide for a right to abortion until a fetus can live on its own and received 3,322 Against votes to 1,163 For.
