Ballot propositions for public restrooms and cemeteries continued to fail.
Ballot envelopes are processed at the MOA Election Center during the regular municipal election on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. posted Thursday for the Anchorage election, races for mayor and school board remained largely unchanged, and two of nine ballot propositions continued to fail.Trailing LaFrance and Bronson were former Anchorage Economic Development Corp. leader Bill Popp, who had about 17% of the vote, and former Democratic state Rep. Chris Tuck, who had 8%.
For seat G, incumbent Carl Jacobs had 57% of the vote, holding a wide lead over first-time candidate Chelsea Pohland.around the municipality, was failing with 61% of voters against it. Proposition 7, a $4.1 million bond for creating two new cemeteries in Girdwood and Eagle River, was failing with about 56% of voters against it.
The Anchorage School District’s $62.3 million capital improvements bond was passing by about 4-point margin,All other capital improvement bonds were still passing Thursday; those are bonds for city parks, roads and storm drainage, public safety and transit, police, and for improving access to Chugach State Park.Mark Littlefield ran unopposed for the only Assembly seat on the ballot and will represent District 2, Eagle River/Chugiak.counted so far.
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