Skagway residents cast votes in the 2015 municipal election. (Emily Files)
The final results are in for the Haines and Skagway Municipal elections.
Will Prisciandaro and Sean Maidy were elected in the four-way race for two Haines Borough Assembly seats. Prisciandaro received the most votes with 468 and Maidy had the second-most votes with 414. Paul Rogers was only 2 votes behind with 412 votes, and Barbara Mulford received 387 votes.
The initiative to elect rather than appoint members of municipal boards, commissions and committees in Haines failed, and the proposition to create police service areas outside the Haines townsite failed in all of the areas it would have affected.
In the three-way race for Skagway Borough Assembly, Steve Burnham Jr. and Jay Burnham were re-elected to their seats. Steve Burnham Jr. received 293 votes followed by Jay Burnham with 249 votes and Roger Griffin with 193 votes.
In an advisory vote, Skagway residents indicated that they did not support funding a recreation center expansion, an aquatics center or a 1 percent sales tax to finance such projects.
HAINES BOROUGH ASSEMBLY
Sean Maidy – 414
Barbara Mulford – 387
Will Prisciandaro – 468
Paul Rogers – 412
HAINES BALLOT PROPOSITIONS
Should voters elect the members of the Haines Borough Planning Commission, Public Safety Commission, Ports and Harbors Advisory Committee, and Tourism Advisory Board by making changes to the Haines Borough Charter Sections 5.06 and 8.01?
Yes – 277
No – 592
Proposition for the creation of a police service area for the Haines Highway Corridor:
Yes – 40
No – 100
Proposition for the creation of a police service area for Mud Bay Road:
Yes – 43
No – 71
Proposition for the creation of a police service area for Lutak Road:
Yes – 10
No – 14
HAINES SCHOOL BOARD
Michael Wald – 648
SKAGWAY BOROUGH ASSEMBLY
Burnham, Jay L. 249
Burnham, Jr., Steve 293
Griffin, Roger W. 193
Write-Ins 24
SKAGWAY ADVISORY VOTE
- Do you support funding of the Recreation Center Expansion at a cost of $7,000,000 (estimate)?
YES 208 NO 213
- Do you support funding of a Recreation Center Expansion Project to include the Aquatic Wellness Center at a cost of $18,500,000 (estimate)?
YES 173 NO 249
- Do you support a one-percent (1%) sales tax increase for the purpose of funding the Recreation Center design, engineering and expansion and the retirement of general obligation bonds?
YES 178 NO 245
SKAGWAY SCHOOL BOARD
Hischer, John 379
Lawson, Alanna (write-in) 125
Write-Ins 40
