Voters will decide several races in next week Tuesday's municipal elections. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Absentee ballots can be filled out up to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 5, at the county …
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Voters will decide several races in next week Tuesday's municipal elections. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Absentee ballots can be filled out up to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 5, at the county clerk's office in Warrenton. The clerk's office also will be open this Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon to accommodate absentee voters. County Clerk Barb Daly said voters in the Concord Hill and Hopewell precincts will be voting at the same location, the American Legion Hall north of Marthasville. Daly said some form of voter identification will be required to cast a ballot. Daly said a driver's license or a voter registration card is preferred, but other identification methods can be used. Two propositions are on next week's ballot. Proposition WCHS is a $1.4 million no-tax-increase bond issue that would fund the purchase of 85 acres south of Interstate 70 bordering Highway F and Roelker Road for the future site of a new high school in the Wright City R-II School District. The proposition requires a four-sevenths majority (54.17 percent) for passage. In the other proposition, Warrenton voters will be deciding whether the city should annex another 600 feet to the west of the current city limits located at Pendleton Cut-Off Road. A simple majority is needed for approval. Warrenton Three alderman seats will be contested in the city as incumbents face opposition. In Ward 1, incumbent Jerry Cullom is seeking her fourth consecutive two-year term. She faces Dan Dieckmann. Fred Flake, who has been a Ward 2 alderman for 14 years, is aiming for a 10th term while facing political newcomer Wayne Smith. In Ward 3, Don Broering will face incumbent and write-in candidate Jim Dreyer, who is finishing his first term. Dreyer had his name taken off the ballot after it was learned he had not paid his personal property taxes by the Jan. 19 filing deadline. Pursuant to state statute, no candidate seeking a municipal office should be certified or appear on the ballot if in arrears for any unpaid city taxes or municipal user fees on the last day to file a declaration of candidacy for the office. Mayor Greg Costello is running unopposed. He is completing his second term as mayor. He previously served as mayor from 1986-1998 and as alderman for two terms beginning in 2003 and again in 2006. Wright City One of the races highlighting next week's election is for mayor. Incumbent Roy White will face challengers Bill Schaffer, a former alderman, and David Heiliger. In Ward 1, incumbent Jim Schuchmann, who is wrapping up his second consecutive term, is opposed by Danny Campbell. Three people are vying for the Ward 2 seat, including incumbent Angie Reynolds, Bill Stinson and James Justice. Reynolds has served one term. The winner for all three seats will serve a two-year term. Other Races Three candidates - Jan Sutherland, Scott Costello and Cliff Tucker - are vying for two seats on the Warren County R-III School Board. Sutherland is the lone incumbent. The two candidate receiving the highest vote totals will serve three-year terms. A crowded field is running for two spots on the Wright City Fire Protection District board. Keith Thompson, Larry Zuhone, Robert Mallery and Robert Kifer have each filed for a board seat. The winners sill serve a six-year term. Zuhone and Mallery are incumbents. Thompson served for about eight months prior to the district learning last April's election was held a year early. The last candidate, Roy May, will remain on the ballot even though he does not intend to serve. He said he filed for the seat prior to other candidates doing so and believes they are more qualified to do the job. In Innsbrook, incumbent Les Buechele, John "Mike" Gambill and Stan Price are running for two, two-year positions on the village board. There are two candidates for a four-year term on the Warren County Emergency Management board. Incumbent Cindy Buescher, who was appointed when the 911 board was formed in 1994, will square off against Eugene Jenkins. No Races Voters in Marthasville and Truesdale won't be selecting new aldermen because both incumbents in each city are running unopposed. Jim Struckhoff and Leo Tobben are running for seats they currently hold in the East Ward and Southwest Ward, respectively, in Marthasville. Also running uncontested are incumbents Rhonda Colombo and Shalene Blackwood for two alderman seats in Truesdale. There will be no race for two seats on the Wright City R-II School Board since incumbents Austin Jones and Mary Groeper were the only candidates to file. Also running unopposed for separate seats on the Warren County Ambulance board are Don Priest and Merlyn Petersmeyer. Both currently represent District 3 and District 6, respectively. Glen Bieker and Tracy Holt have no opposition for two seats on the Marthasville Ambulance District board. Carol Rose and John Pickering were the only candidates to file for Foristell alderman seats in Ward 1 and Ward 2, respectively. Following the discovery of an election filing error, no names are on the ballot for two trustee seats in Pendleton. However, incumbents Ashlee Pottebaum and Alfred Kilpatrick are both running as write-in candidates for separate two-year terms. Three others had previously filed - all incumbents - but learned afterward their turn to run again was in 2011, according to Daly.