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Welcome To the Latest Issue of eNews!
April 8, 2010 vol 1 issue 12 Welcome to La Crosse County’s eNews. Our purpose is to keep the people of La Crosse County better informed about your County government. County government has not always been as visible as some other levels of government. So we’ll provide eNews you can use like upcoming dates for public hearings, health clinics and reminders about deadlines for dog licenses and ordinance changes. We’ll provide detailed information about our budget, highlights of innovations and achievements and updates about critical issues facing the County, like how certain actions of the State & Federal governments will affect County services and County property taxpayers. We also want the people of our County to have a chance to learn more about the inner workings of County government by providing access to the Monthly Report to the County Board. On an alternating basis, roughly half the departments report each month on the most compelling statistics, activities and challenges confronting our staff working to provide the best in public service. Link to Monthly Reports. We hope you find La Crosse County eNews helpful and informative. If you have any suggestions how to make it better, please let us know using our email links at the bottom. eNews You Can Use! Speaker: Will Allen, part of Earth Month Activities Founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc. Tuesday April 13 7-9 pm UW-L Graff Main Hall Auditorium Spring Election Results: Tuesday April 6, 2010 The La Crosse County Clerk webpage indicates that with only local contests and no state-wide elections on the ballot, Total Voter turnout was 8.92% from 40 local polling stations in the County for Tuesday’s Spring Election. Details of all races held in La Crosse County can be accessed at this link: http://www.co.la-crosse.wi.us/countyclerk/Election/2010.htm
County Board Supervisor Elections All 35 incumbent Supervisors were seeking re-election with 26 running unopposed and 9 contested races. In an era where some commentators have suggested an anti incumbent sentiment among voters, this was not the result in La Crosse County.
Only 2 incumbents lost their bids for re-election for the 2010-2012 term, thereby producing the least amount of turnover in the recent past, a change of 5.7%. By contrast in each of the past two elections, the number of new County Board members was much higher. The 2008-2010 term produced 9 new Supervisors (25.7% turnover) and the 2006-2008 term ushered in 8 new Supervisors (22.9% turnover).
The incumbents who lost their seats were Ann Fisher who served 4 terms from 2002 to 2010; and Joe Veenstra who served only a single term, but had been elected by his peers as 2nd Vice Chairman when the position became vacant with the resignation of former Supervisor Tom Rauk.
As the results below indicate, most of the elections were determined by a significant margin. The closest contest was the rematch in District 23 between Supervisor Tammy Gamroth who won by 13 votes over former Supervisor Brian Kapanke (this race produced the same winner two years ago by only 2 votes).
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