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Capital sales tax cruises Cole County voters approve renewing half-cent sales tax
The unofficial results showed 5,325 “yes” votes (78.92 percent) and 1,422 “no” votes (21.08 percent). Roger Schwartz, a member of the leadership team for the Citizens for Proposition A group, By Jeff Haldiman said, “We look forward to another five years of jhaldiman@newstribune.com progress on roads and bridges as well as facilities in the county thanks to the support of the citizens. Once again, Cole County voters approved Our campaign was different this time because of renewing the county’s half-cent sales tax for cap- the COVID pandemic and not being able to meet ital projects for another five years. with people like we have done in the past. But we
were still able to get the message out with different methods.” Cole County voters last approved an extension of the tax in April 2016, with just more than 79 percent voting in favor of the measure. The sales tax, first approved in the 1980s, allows funding for road and bridge projects, which receive 85 percent of the funds generated, and facility and equipment improvements, which receive the Please see Sales tax, p. 3
ELECTION AT A GLANCE Results are of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday
JEFFERSON CITY MUNICIPAL JUDGE SCOTT EVANS
58.9 percent of the vote See story page A3
2 incumbents, 2 newcomers win seats on council
BLAIR OAKS SCHOOL BOARD See story page C7
By Michael Shine mshine@newstribune.com The Jefferson City Council will see two returning faces and two new ones when the new members are sworn in April 19. Incumbents Laura Ward from Ward 2 and Mark Schreiber from Ward 5 won their bids for reelection with approximately a 100-vote difference from their opponents. Meanwhile, Ward 3 will see newcomer Scott Spencer and Ward 4 will see newcomer Derrick Spicer, who won with more than 150-vote leads. Ward 1 incumbent David Kemna ran unopposed. Ward 2 Ward, who will be in her last term on the council, received 58.6 percent of the vote to her opponent Edith Vogel’s 40.7 percent. Ward received 330 votes to Vogel’s 231. Only two votes were cast in the Callaway County portion of Ward 2; both votes went to Vogel. Ward was not available for comment Tuesday night. “I think we both ran a nice clean campaign,” Vogel said Tuesday night. “Laura is the incumbent, and she would have an advantage over me. But I took my shot. I sincerely wanted to run a good campaign, and I think I did and gave the voters another Please see Council, p. 3
LOGAN GRATZ
TIM LUEBBERING
35.6 percent of the vote
34.2 percent of the vote
OTHER MID-MISSOURI RESULTS See stories pages C7-8
• COLE R-1 SCHOOL BOARD Julie Smith/News Tribune
JENIFER SEAVER, 42.2 percent of vote RENEE BUNGART, 34.5 percent of vote
• COLE R-5 SCHOOL BOARD
Jon Geers, left, was voter number 124 at Ward 5 Precinct 1. He is checked in Tuesday by Steve Potter, right, as Amanda Shortal looks on. Although voter turnout in Cole County was predicted to be around 10 percent, the McClung Park Pavilion polling location saw more than expected.
RYAN CARRENDER, 40.1 percent of vote SARAH STROBEL, 30.4 percent of vote
• RUSSELLVILLE FIRE BALLOT ISSUE APPROVED, 74 percent (Cole County); 84 percent (Moniteau County) of vote
Slow, but steady stream
• CALIFORNIA MAYORAL RACE RICH GREEN, 85.4 percent of vote
• SOUTH CALLAWAY SCHOOL BOARD
Cole County sees 13% turnout at polls
CALEB BARTLEY, 33.7 percent of vote MICAH BENNINGFIELD, 33.7 percent of vote
• NEW BLOOMFIELD SCHOOL BOARD
CRAIG ABBOTT, 30.9 percent of vote DOUG GLICK, 41.7 percent of vote
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• SOUTHERN BOONE SCHOOL BOARD
Throughout the day Tuesday, there were very quiet moments at Cole County poll locations. However, there was a slow yet somewhat steady stream of voters as Cole County hit 13 percent voter turnout with 6,823 ballots cast in the municipal election. Cole County Clerk Steve Korsmeyer had predicted a turnout of about 10 percent, but he had hoped for better given the amount of contested races and the county’s half-cent capital improvement sales tax renewal on the ballot. At one point, Korsmeyer said they were asked around 4 p.m. Tuesday to run extra ballots to the Please see Turnout, p. 3
LYN WOOLFORD, 36.9 percent of vote TAMMRA AHOLT, 33.1 percent of vote
• ASHLAND BOARD OF ALDERMEN NATHAN VOLKART, 76 percent of vote DORISE SLINKER, 63 percent of vote
• OSAGE COUNTY RESULTS Liv Paggiarino/News Tribune
Laura Ward and Alicia Edwards look at the election results projected on the wall Tuesday at their City Council election watch party at Capitol City Cinema.
• MILLER COUNTY RESULTS • MONITEAU COUNTY SCHOOLS
PRAIRIE HOME: Jamie Lynn Wallingford (41%) and Sandra Waibel (34%) HIGH POINT: William (Will) Wright (39%) and Luther (Luke) Gier (25%)
Incumbents re-elected to JC Schools board By Layne Stracener lstracener@newstribune.com
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Rowden
Incumbents Ken Enloe and Lindsey Rowden were elected to three-year terms on the Jefferson City Board of Education in Tuesday’s election. Enloe received 3,703 votes (39.41 percent), Rowden received 3,672 votes (39.08 percent) and Ian Shadrick received 1,931 votes (20.55 percent).
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There were 9,394 votes cast in the school district, which encompasses parts of Cole and Callaway counties; 88 write-in votes were cast. Cole County had 8,974 votes, and Callaway County had 420. In Cole County, Enloe received 3,550 votes (39.56 percent), Rowden received 3,514 votes (39.16 percent) and Shadrick received 1,824 votes (20.33 percent). There were 86 write-in candidates (0.96 percent). In Callaway County, Enloe received 153 votes (36.43
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percent), Rowden received 158 votes (37.62 votes) and Shadrick received 107 votes (25.48 percent). There were two write-in candidates (0.48 percent). Enloe, of Jefferson City, is the current board treasurer and director of human resources and business development for Huber & Associates Inc. This will be his second term on the board. Enloe said his goals are to focus on facility improvement Please see School, p. 3
■ WATERCOOLER Dutch police make arrest in thefts of Van Gogh, Hals works Dutch police arrested a suspect Tuesday in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said. The paintings, however, remain missing. In a statement posted on Twitter, police spokeswoman Maren Wonder said a 58-year-old man was arrested at his home in the Dutch town of Baarn, 25 miles southeast of Amsterdam. His identity was not released, in line with Dutch privacy guidelines. “Unfortunately, we haven’t yet recovered the paintings and the investigation is continuing,” Wonder said. She called the arrest “a really important step in the investigation.” Van Gogh’s “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884” was snatched from the Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam in the early hours of March 30, 2020.