School Election And Mill Levy Voting Results Show Low Turnout
Author: mt43news staff reporter
Unofficial election results showed voters turned in 2,634 ballots with a turnout of 52% after the count Tuesday night, according to Elections Administrator Angie Paulsen. The Townsend School District election finished with 975 votes for candidate Adam Brakefield. Opposing candidate Kristi Sangray received 956 votes. The two candidates were vying for a three-year seat vacated by Daniel Truesdell who did not seek the position.
Brakefield,49, who works for Graymont Western, has children in both the elementary and high school. A 1994 Broadwater High School graduate, his interests lay in sports for children and new programing in the schools. Sangray, 43, currently works for White Sulphur Springs schools. She worked at Townsend Schools as a paraprofessional, elementary school office secretary and finally as school district clerk.
Also on the ballot was a mill levy for Broadwater County Sheriff Public Safety Mill Levy. The vote was 1008 votes in favor while 1608 voters marked their ballots against passing the levy renewal. Sheriff Nick Rauser had campaigned far and wide in the county to renew the levy, siting population growth in the county and the need for more public safety services.
