Elmdale and Cedar Point
The Chase County Board of County Commissioners, serving the election canvassing board met Monday, April 9, and certified the Tuesday, April 3, election. The board also finalized the undetermined outcome of the municipal elections in Elmdale and Cedar Point.
In Elmdale and Cedar Point, voters had to write-in their selections for mayor and five council members in Elmdale and mayor and three council members in Cedar Point.
In Elmdale, voters were unanimous in their selection of Ray McClellan for mayor. For city council, the voters wrote in Kathy Burkhart, Mike Collins, Roger Henderson, Juanita Collins and Ruth Green. In Cedar point, Christy Soyez was the only write-in for mayor. David Gass, Michael Jackson and Jim Gates took the three open council spots.
Council Grove
The Chase County Board of County Commissioners met with the Clerk of the District Court Barb Davis and Registrar Kathy Swift during a recent meeting. Davis, Swift and the board discussed the logistics for the planned vacating of the courthouse by May 7. The move became a reality with the passage of the extension of the county-wide retailers’ sales tax in the recent election.
Every department in the courthouse has already begun packing. The final move is scheduled to begin on May 3 and continue through May 5 or May 6.
Hartford
Roy Black, the unopposed candidate for Hartford mayor, who received 87 unofficial votes in the April 3 general election, is ineligible to serve for mayor because he was not a registered to vote at the time of the election.
County Clerk Karen Hartenbower sent a letter dated April 9 that Black was ineligible.
Black now is a registered voter and was sworn in this week as the mayor of Hartford by the Hartford City Council.
Waverly
The Lebo-Waverly USD 243 Board of Education was told when they met recently that Waverly and Lebo Elementary Schools have been accredited for another five years.
Personnel at both schools have met with the accreditation team. Principal Tony Houchin of Waverly Elementary School and Principal Jim Ochs of Lebo Elementary School reported that the accreditation process had gone well for their schools.