Ballot to include extra spot on Edmonds School Board, 2 in city government

Local ballots in 2015 will be big, with an extra position on the Edmonds School Board and two in Edmonds City government.

Voters in the Alderwood Water and Wastewater District also face an enlarged ballot. The district includes Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Brier and nearby unincorporated areas.

Four of the five School Board positions will be on the 2015 ballots because three of the five board members are coming to the end of their terms and another will need to run for the last two years of the term that she holds by appointment.

Edmonds ballots will include elections for the last two years of the term on the position on the City Council that Strom Peterson plans of give up to start the term in the State Legislature that he won in last month’s election, and the last two years of the term on the Edmonds Municipal Court that Judge Douglas Fair will leave to start the term on that South District Court that he won in November.

The extra positions on the School Board, in the City of Edmonds and on the Alderwood Board will be on 2015 South Snohomish County ballots that will feature races for mayor of Edmonds, 18 council positions in the five municipalities in the area, a seat on the Snohomish County Council, and four of the five positions on the Edmonds School Board.

Edmonds city voters will fill four-year terms for the positions now held by Mayor Dave Earling, City Council members Joan Bloom, Diane Buckshnis, Thomas Mesaros and Lora Petso and the last two years of the four-year term for the seat that Peterson plans to give up in January to start the two-year term in the state legislature and the a contest for the last two years of the four-year term that Fair soon will give up to start the term on the District Court that he won in November.

In Lynnwood, the ballot will include positions held by City Councilmen Van AuBuchon, Benjamin Goodwin, Sid Roberts and Loren Simmonds.

In Mountlake Terrace, voters will fill the positions held by Council members Seaun Richards, Laura Sonmore and Bryan Wahl.

The Brier ballot will include the positions that City Council members Dale Kaemingk, Dennis Nick, Kerin Steele and John Joplin now hold.

Woodway ballots will include the Town Council seats that Tom Howard and Elizabeth Mitchell hold.

The County Council position on the 2015 ballot is the one representing Edmonds, Woodway, part of Lynnwood and the rest of Council District 3, the position that Democrat Stephane Wright holds. It will and County executive be the only local partisan office on the ballot. The position that Democrat Terry Ryan holds representing part of Lynnwood along with Mountlake Terrace, Brier, Mill Creek, part of Bothell and the rest of Council District 4 will not be on the ballot until 2017.

School Board positions on the 2015 ballot are four-year terms for the seats that Board Members Kory DeMun, Gary Noble and Diana White hold and the last two years of the term that April Nowak holds by appointment .The Edmonds School District includes Edmonds, Woodway, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, part of Brier and unincorporated areas of South Snohomish County.

Ballots in Snohomish County Fire District 1 will include the position that Commissioner Bob Meador holds. The District includes unincorporated areas of Snohomish County south of Everett. Residents of Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace and Brier get service from the District by contract but those cities are not part of the District.

Voters in the Alderwood Water and Wastewater District will fill the six-year term for the position that Commissioner Donna Cross holds and the last four years of the term that Dean Lotz holds by appointment. The District includes Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Brier and nearby areas.

In Edmonds, Woodway and nearby areas of the Olympic View Water and Sewer District, ballots will have the position held by Water Commissioner John Elsasser.

Voters in that Edmonds District will fill 6-year terms for positions held by David Preston and Jim Orvis. The District includes Woodway and part of Edmonds.

Ballots in Hospital District 2, including Brier, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Woodway and unincorporated areas of southwest Snohomish County, will fill seats on the Verdant Health Commission that Fred Langer and Dr. Bruce Williams hold.

The few voters in the southwest Snohomish County part of the Shoreline-based Ronald Wastewater District will fill positions that Brian T. Carroll, Arnie Lind now hold.

Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.

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