With all precinct's votes tabulated, Republican Steve Kozachik held a 1,332-vote lead over incumbent Nina Trasoff in unofficial results for the council's Ward 6 seat. And in the other close race, incumbent Democrat Karin Uhlich saw her margin over Republican challenger Ben Buehler-Garcia dwindle to just 444 votes.
Yet to be counted are early voting ballots that arrived at the county on Tuesday (Nov. 3) through the mail or because they were dropped off at polling places. That could be as many as 15,000 ballots.
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Proposition 200, the controversial Public Safety First initiative, was being soundly defeated with more than 70 percent of the votes. Leaders of the effort conceded defeat. Proposition 200 would have amended the city charter to set staffing levels for police officers and minimum response times for emergency calls. The proponents had gathered more than 18,000 signatures on petitions, a record to put the measure on the ballot. Both supporters and opponents of the measure say that polling data indicated it had strong support until a concerted effort was launched to try to defeat it.
Among school districts that asked voters to approve additional spending measures, Catalina Foothills, Tanque Verde and Indian Oasis-Baboquivari sold their cases to voters.
But it was a mixed case in two other districts.Voters in the Vail and Sahuarita unified school districts favored proposals to sell bonds for school facilities improvements but rejected the idea of allowing the districts to continue exceeding state-set limitations on their operations budgets.
And voters in Tucson Unified School District rejected the district's third attempt in five years to try to get voter approval to spend more money. And, probably owing to the economy, this year's defeat by more than 58 percent was by the widest margin yet. Five years ago it was voted down by 57 percent of voters and last year it was rejected by 52 percent of voters.
These are unofficial election results for the Nov. 3 general election for the city of Tucson and school districts in Pima County. These results were as of 1:43 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 4).
City of Tucson
City Council – Ward 3
Ben Buehler-Garcia (Rep.) 29,906 46.5%
Mary DeCamp (Green) 3,298 6.1%
Karin Uhlich (Dem.) 30,350 47.3%
City Council – Ward 5
Richard Fimbres (Dem.) 33,847 53.3%
Shaun McClusky (Rep.) 29,560 46.5%
City Council – Ward 6
Steve Kozachik (Rep.) 32,448 50.9%
Nina Trasoff (Dem.) 31,116 48.8%
Proposition 200 – Public Safety First Initiative
Yes 19,510 29.7%
No 46,139 70.3%
Proposition 400 - Home Rule spending
Yes 31,671 49.4%
No 32,416 50.6%
Tucson Unified School District
100% of precincts reporting
Proposition 401 – M&O budget override
Yes 26,206 41.0%
No 37,778 59.0%
Proposition 402 – Capital budget override
Yes 24,821 38.8%
No 39,199 61.2%
Amphitheater Public Schools
100% of precincts reporting
Proposition 403 – Renewal of M&O budget override
Yes 8,830 49.6%
No 8,957 50.4%
Proposition 404 – Capital budget override
Yes 8,672 48.6%
No 9,159 51.4%
Tanque Verde School District
100% of precincts reporting
Proposition 405 – Renewal of M&O budget override
Yes 1,493 51.3%
No 1,415 48.7%
Proposition 406 – $14 million bond election
Yes 1,581 54.3%
No 1,331 45.7%
Catalina Foothills School District
100% of precincts reporting
Proposition 407 – $22.8 million bond election
Yes 3,912 65.5%
No 2,061 34.5%
Vail Unified School District
100% of precincts reporting
Proposition 408 – $15 million bond election
Yes 3,836 56.7%
No 2,928 43.3%
Proposition 409 – Renewal of M&O budget override
Yes 3,289 48.6%
No 3,482 51.4%
Sahuarita Unified School District
100% of precincts reporting
Proposition 410 – Renewal of M&O budget override
Yes 1,051 44.9%
No 1,289 55.1%
Proposition 411 – $27 million bond election
Yes 1,221 52.2%
No 1,119 47.8%
Proposition 412 – Investment earnings for bond projects
Yes 1,203 51.6%
No 1,130 48.4%
Indian Oasis-Baboquivari School District
100 percent of precincts reporting
Proposition 413 – Renewal of M&O budget override
Yes 146 82.5%
No 31 17.5%
Proposition 414 – Renewal of K-3 budget override
Yes 153 87.4%
No 22 12.6%
Comments
RyeR wrote on Nov 12, 2009 10:56 AM:
Robert Rowley wrote on Nov 4, 2009 12:14 PM:
Cisco wrote on Nov 4, 2009 10:40 AM:
I'm sorry sir but Uhlich didn't fight crime in those neighborhoods, the police did. It is the police that have to do the job and the lousy politican Uhlich takes the credit? If she was for public saftey; as well as the rest of the garbage on the City council, then Prop 200 would have never seen the light of day. It is because she and the others refuse to fund the police and fire department approperately that prop 200 was introduced.
It seems as though we may have at least 1 new council member now and hopefully he will be the catalyst to get things moving in the right direction.
But please sir, do not take uhlich's inaction and poor judgement and turn it around to say that she did what the police accomplished. She had nothing to do with it and our City Budget shows it. "
Gary Maskarinec wrote on Nov 4, 2009 12:29 AM:
Kyle wrote on Nov 3, 2009 11:25 PM:
The bill may have passed if they would have left off the fire dept section of it; that is where the real problem with it was. But I can tell you as a resident of a condo community near Wilmot/Pima, we definitely need the Police at at least a slightly higher presence. "
Cisco wrote on Nov 3, 2009 9:48 PM:
Well Tucson, if you vote these morons back in, you get what you deserve. "
bill wrote on Nov 3, 2009 9:31 PM: