EXHIBIT A

CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION

City of Homer Regular Election

October 2, 2007

We, the Election Canvass Board, duly appointed, of the City of Homer, Alaska hereby certify that the validated absentee and validated questioned ballots were opened, counted, and recorded at a legally authorized and convened meeting of the City of Homer Canvass Board, held October 5, 2007 and that the results of that count are hereon entered with the certified results of the votes counted for the precinct polling places via Accu-Vote Ballot Tabulation System and that the total results are recorded hereon.

 

35-010

Homer #1

35-020

Homer #2

Absentee/

Questioned/

Special Needs that were Counted

Total Regular Votes

% of Votes

CITY COUNCIL

3 Year Term

 

 

 

2219 = 1109.5 Votes Cast

 

Wythe, Mary E. (Beth)

 

410

313

 

108

 

831

 

76%

 

Stark, Doug

85

 

99

 

46

 

230

 

22%

 

Chesley, Lane

 

386

 

290

 

87

 

763

 

70%

 

Zak, Bryan

136

 

119

 

45

 

300

 

28%

 

Wells, Leonard

 

31

27

28

86

2%

Write-in

 

3

 

2

 

4

 

9

 

2%

 

PROPOSITIONS

 

 

 

 

1136 Votes Cast

 

#1  Sales Tax

Increase ¼%

Yes - 216

No - 316

Yes - 176

No - 258

Yes -74

No - 96

Yes- 466

No - 670

41%

59%

Registered

Voters

 

2137

 

2035

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Certificate of Election

October 2, 2007 Regular Election

 

 

We further certify that there were               1019       Regular voters and   165    Absentee voters,   7      Special Needs Voters, and

   3    Questioned voters for a total of   1194    voters that voted in this election.  Percentage of voter turnout is    29%   Total registered voters for the City of Homer are 4,172 as of September 11, 2007.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 5 th day of October, 2007.

 

Canvass Board:           ______________________________            __________________________________

                                    Pauline Benson                                                Camille Wood

 

Staff:                          __________________________________

                                    Melissa Jacobsen, Deputy City Clerk II

 

Attest:  _______________________________

              Jo Johnson, CMC, City Clerk