Preliminary Police Officer & Firefighter Trustee Election Results

6/29/2023

Per the Trustee Election Procedures, to be elected a Police Officer Trustee or Firefighter Trustee a candidate must receive more than 50% of the votes cast. If no candidate earns more than 50% of the votes cast, a runoff election will be held involving the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes.

The preliminary results for the Police Officer & Firefighter Trustees are as follows:

  1. Police Officer Trustee: Michael Taglienti
  2. Firefighter Trustee: a runoff election will be held between Armando Garza and Matthew Shomer.

The voting packets for the runoff Firefighter Trustee election will be mailed on July 19th to active members’ home addresses or emailed to active members who have elected eCorrespondence. Voting for the runoff Firefighter Trustee election begins at 8 a.m. on Thursday, July 20th and voting ends at noon on Tuesday, August 1st. Only active Firefighter members are eligible to vote in the runoff Firefighter Trustee election.

The results will be submitted to the Board to certify at the July 13, 2023 Board meeting. These Trustees will serve from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026.


Race

Candidate/Choice

Votes

Percent

Police Officer Trustee - Police


Michael Taglienti


132


55.46%

Police Officer Trustee - Police

Kenneth Haben (incumbent)


76


31.93%

Police Officer Trustee - Police


Zachary Knetzer


30


12.61%

 

Race

Candidate/Choice

Votes

Percent


Firefighter Trustee - Fire

Armando Garza (incumbent)


124


31.55%

Firefighter Trustee - Fire

Matthew Shomer

97

24.68%

Firefighter Trustee - Fire

David Waks

87

22.14%

Firefighter Trustee - Fire

David Hatch

85

21.63%