BY LINDA BENTLEY | MARCH 11, 2011
Two Carefree candidates vie for last council seat
Carefree reelected Mayor David Schwan in the town’s first election where voters directly elected their mayor in a close race against Councilman Doug Stavoe.
Vice Mayor Glenn Miller was reelected to council along with four newcomers, each receiving more than 50 percent of the 1,400 ballots cast.
A runoff election will be held in May to determine whether Jim Peirce or write-in candidate Jim Van Allen will claim the last seat on council. Van Allen, although a write-in candidate in the primary election, will appear on the ballot in the runoff election.
Cave Creek elects council in primary
There will be no runoff election in May for Cave Creek. Voters reelected Mayor Vincent Francia, who ran unopposed, and elected six council members, each of whom received over 50 percent of the vote out of the 1,093 ballots cast during the March 8 primary election.
Alice Kunka, who received only 35 percent of the vote, was eliminated along with Adam Trenk, who received 248 votes despite withdrawing his candidacy after it was too late to be removed from the ballot.
MARCH 11, 2011
Updated Unofficial Election Results
CAREFREE:
Mayor, Town of Carefree:
Schwan, David 729
Stavoe, Douglas 651
Councilmember, Town of Carefree (6):
Farrar, Michael 917
Gimson, Arthur 730
Miller, Glenn 777
Peirce, Jim 612
Price, Melissa 892
Saltzman, Marty 813
Smith-Lovejoy, Karen 385
Write-in Candidate 565
Town of Carefree Proposition 421:
(Term Limits)
Yes 881
No 446
Town of Carefree Proposition 422:
(Two-thirds Council vote to present Property Tax to voters)
Yes 805
No 474
Town of Carefree Proposition 432:
(Requiring majority of voters to approve a Property Tax)
Yes 919
No 355
CAVE CREEK:
Mayor, Town of Cave Creek:
Francia, Vincent 828
Write-in Candidate 38
Councilmember, Town of Cave Creek (6):
Anderson, Shelley 685
Bruce, James 661
Bunch, Ernie 734
Esser, Dick 721
Kunka, Alice 379
Lamar, Steven 639
McGuire, Thomas 680
Trenk, Adam 248
Write-in Candidate 44
Town of Cave Creek Question 1:
(Southwest Gas Franchise)
Yes 859
No 166
Town of Cave Creek Proposition 424:
(Home-Rule Expenditure)
Yes 744
No 278
