By now, most Sun Citians are aware that Steve Bytnar, Russ Howard, and Bob Wainscott were re-elected to the Sun City board of directors starting in 2020.
But some of you are maybe not aware of Dottie Harrison, the fourth candidate in the “four candidates seeking three seats for next year” balloting. She received 61.l percent of the total vote, or 1,452 votes, only eight percentage points behind the lowest vote-getter of the top three. She remains an active member of the Sun City government. She is recorder on three advisory committees to the board and has an impressive knowledge of Sun City issues and activities.
Bytnar led the vote-getting with 1,720, or 72% of the total. Howard tallied 1,679 votes, or 70%, and Wainscott, who served on the board in 2017-18 and sought to return next year, received 1,661, or nearly 69.9%.
About 44% of the community’s eligible voters participated. Of 5,463 eligible voters, 2,394 acceptable ballots were returned. This was the first year that there were four versions of the candidate list printed, giving all candidates a greater chance in the competitive vote.
There were 12 write-in votes cast. Don Kay, chairperson of the Modifications Committee and a candidate in the 2018 election, received one write-in, as did Pat Klatt, Bill Clanton, a former member of the facility Advisory Committee and business manager of the Prairie Singers; Jules Pelka, active in the Tennis Club; and Ken Kalscheur, former President of the Tennis Club and active in the Neighborhood Advisory Council, received one each. Kalscheur actually was named as a write-in on two ballots. Also receiving write-in votes were Allan Brewer, Bernard Winner, Ralph Hardy, and Richard Brooks.
Neighborhood 10, one of the largest neighborhoods, cast the highest percentage of ballots, 69%, by returning 98 ballots out of l42 members. Neighborhood 33 returned 58,7% of its ballots, for almost 59% participation. Neighborhood 1 was divided into six sections for this election, but overall recorded a 53% participation, with 50 ballots out of 93 possible. The largest neighborhood, 21, with 305 members, had a 48% return, 146 ballots sent in.
Holdover board members not running in this year’s election were President Dennis O’Leary, Vito Benigno, Bob McGouey, and Marilynn Berendt.
