CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Tuesday’s preliminary results in the race for Clearlake City Council show a city planning commissioner and a recently appointed councilman as the top vote-getters.
With early absentees and nine precincts reporting, Dirk Slooten and Russell Cremer were ahead of Russell Perdock in the race to gain two available seats on the five-member council.
The results reported overnight by the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office are preliminary until the official canvass is completed in one month.
Slooten, a planning commissioner, retired businessman and Rotarian who has been instrumental in raising money for community fire relief, led the field based on Tuesday night’s returns.
He led in the early absentee count, with his lead growing as precinct ballots were counted, for a total preliminary tally of 1,144 ballots, or 40 percent.
Cremer came in with 1,015 votes, or 35.5 percent, followed by Perdock with 688 votes, or 24 percent.
Perdock served just over three years of a four-year term on the council before he resigned in February in order to pursue the Clearlake Police chief job, as Lake County News has reported. Both Slooten and Cremer and applied to fill the vacancy, with the council ultimately appointing Cremer.
On the ballot Tuesday were the two seats currently held by Cremer as well as Mayor Bruno Sabatier, who in June was elected to be District 2’s next representative on the Lake County Board of Supervisors.
Also on the ballot in Clearlake on Tuesday was the city treasurer’s job, for which no candidates applied. It has been filled by city staff for several years and city voters so far haven’t approved making it an appointed position, as they did for the city clerk’s job.
In other election news, early results showed that in the race for the Redbud Health Care District’s Zone 2 director’s seat, Sandra M. Richards led the voting with 362 ballots, or 58.2 percent, followed by Brice Trask, 162 votes or 26 percent, and Mark Burkdoll, with 97 votes or 15.6 percent.
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Slooten, Cremer lead in preliminary Clearlake City Council race results
- Elizabeth Larson
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