{"id":64495,"date":"2020-10-19T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/its-official-city-certifies-its-by-mail-election-results\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:30:00","slug":"its-official-city-certifies-its-by-mail-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/its-official-city-certifies-its-by-mail-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: City certifies its by-mail election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s official &mdash;the results of the city&rsquo;s first by-mail election have been certified, City and Borough of Juneau announced.<\/p>\n<p>There were no surprises revealed by the work of the Canvass Review Board, which worked Tuesday to certify the results.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/hughes-skandijs-woll-take-assembly-seats-yes-on-prop-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> As indicated by previously released unofficial <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/hughes-skandijs-woll-take-assembly-seats-yes-on-prop-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">results<\/a>, the newly elected Assembly members are Maria Gladziszewski, Alicia Hughes-Skandijs and Christine Woll. Gladziszewski won an areawide seat in an uncontested race, Hughes-Skandijs won a race against Kenny Solomon-Gross for reelection to her District 1 seat and Woll won a four-way race for a District 2 seat. All were elected to three-year terms.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"\n  src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20398172-2020-10-20-canvass-review-board-certification-with-final-results-sheet-1\/?embed=1&#038;title=1\"\n  title=\"2020-10-20 Canvass Review Board Certification-with final results sheet (1) (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\"\n  width=\"700\"\n  height=\"905\"\n  style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa;\"\n  sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\"\n><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Board of Education Members Brian Holst and Martin Stepetin Sr. were each also elected to three-yea terms. Holst and Stepetin were the sole candidates for two open seats on the school board.<\/p>\n<p>The newly elected Juneau School District Board of Education members will be sworn into office at a meeting to be held at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 21, according to a news release from the city clerk&rsquo;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Woll will be sworn in during an Assembly reorganization meeting at 7 p.m., on Monday, Oct. 26, according to the clerk&rsquo;s office. At that same meeting, the Assembly will recognize outgoing Assembly member Rob Edwardson who has concluded a three-year term of service in the District 2 seat on the Assembly as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The official results shared Tuesday were extremely similar to the figures shared in the previous round of unofficial results.<\/p>\n<p>There was a voter turnout of 42.7% of registered voters in Juneau. It&rsquo;s the first municipal election to top 40% turnout since 2000 , according to city data.<\/p>\n<p>In District 1, Hughes-Skandijs received 6,368 votes to Solomon-Gross&rsquo; 5,065.<\/p>\n<p>In District 2, Woll received 5,133 votes, Robert Shoemake received 3,044 votes, Derek Dzinich received 1,874 votes and Lacey Derr received 1,025 votes.<\/p>\n<p>A ballot proposition to establish a charter commission overwhelmingly failed with 7,448 no votes to 3,969 yes notes.<\/p>\n<p>A proposition approving a $15 million bond package for public projects, including school roof repairs, passed by over 2,000 votes &mdash;6,938-4,675.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact Ben Hohenstatt at (907)308-4895 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected official that is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":64496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[237,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-64495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-election","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64495"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=64495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}