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City of Saline voters elected Chuck Lesch, Jack Ceo and Jenn Harmount to city council in the Nov. 7 election.
Ceo will continue to serve on council. Lesch and Harmount will replace Jim Dell'Orco and Kevin Camero-Sulak, who chose not to seek re-election.
The winners' two-year terms begin in January.
Lesch was the top vote-getter, receiving 1,130 votes. Harmount was second with 1,099 and Ceo was third with 1,083 votes.
Christen Mitchell, who served two terms on council before challenging Brian Marl for mayor, was fourth in 864 votes. Brian Cassise was fifth with 586 votes.
Just 47 votes separated the top three vote-getters. There was a clear difference between third and fourth (219) and a wider gulf between fourth and fifth (278).
There were 1,809 votes cast for a voter turnout of 23.24 percent. That number was lower than Chelsea (27.68 percent), Manchester (35.88), Milan (26.61 percent). Turnout in Manchester was likely boosted by the school proposal and Milan's turnout might have been boosted by a library proposal.
In 2021, the last off-year council election, there were four candidates for three seats and turnout was 20.68 percent in the city. There were 1,565 votes. In 2019, there four candidates for three seats and voter turnout was 16.76 percent. So this was the highest turnout for an off-year council election since 2017, when 25.62 percent of voters cast ballots. That was an election boosted by two school proposals.
Turnout in Salne precincts 1 and 2 was 26.94 percent compared to 20.27 in precincts 3 and 4.
For the five candidates, there 4,762 votes - with nearly 3,209 cast via absentee ballot.
Congrats Chuck Lesch!
Partly Cloudy , with a high of 63 and low of 39 degrees. Sunny in the morning, cloudy overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,