Edgar defeats school referendum

District townships say no

Edgar School District voters on Tuesday defeated a revenue cap referendum for the second time by a narrow margin.

The vote to approve a phased-in $800,000 increase in the district’s revenue cap was 532 to 568.

According to unofficial tallies reported by the Marathon County Clerk’s Office, the referendum received strong support in the villages of Edgar, 293-174, and Fenwood, 55-44, but was opposed in all district townships by, in some cases, lopsided margins. The townships include Cassel, Cleveland Emmet, Frankfort, Rib Falls, Rietbrock and Wien.

Administrator Dr. Cari Guden said the Edgar Board of Education would chart the district’s next step following Tuesday’s vote. “The unofficial count shows that the referendum has failed,” she said in a prepared statement. “As a school district, we will reconvene to determine our next steps. The school board will communicate future plans with the community as the plans unfold.”

According to a Department of Public Instruction website, Wisconsin school boards are able to float revenue cap referendums twice a year but they must be held at normally scheduled fall and spring elections.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission does not have a fall election scheduled on its calendar.

In other election results:

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Wisconsin residents elected Jill Underly, superintendent of the Pecatonica Area School District, to be state Superintendent of Public Instruction. She defeated Deborah Kerr, superintendent of Brown Deer School District, by a 526,286 (57 percent) to 386,392 (42 percent) vote.

In Marathon County, voters narrowly favored Kerr, 12,391 to 12,133.

Court of Appeals Judge

Statewide, voters favored Gregory Gill over Rick Cveykus to become District 3 Court of Appeals Judge, but, here, in Marathon County, voters favored Cveykus 12,675 to 10,943.

Marathon County Circuit Court

In a contested race for Marathon County Circuit Court Judge Sixth Branch, voters elected Scott Corbett, 13,770, to Daniel Cveykus, 9,864.

Town races

In a contested race for town of Cleveland supervisor, Paul Drexler, 244, and Leonard Austin, 153, defeated challengers Lori Hollatz, 133, and Stephanie Christensen, 66.

In a race for Halsey town chairman, Rick Poppe defeated Scott Roesler, 9525.

Town of Hamburg voters favored Jordan Artus, 126, and Clifton Plisch, 107, in a contested supervisory race. Daniel Grenwalt, 86 s, was not elected.

In a write-in campaign for Wien town chairman, Cal Tackes defeated opponent Michael Kuyoth, 115 to 36.

Local school boards

Athens School District voters elected Thomas Ellenbecker, 372,and Shanon Peel, 371, over Michael Wolf, 313, and Tamey Zenner, 329.

In a four-way race for Stratford school board, voters elected Dustin Skaya, 614, and Tyler Skaya. The brothers defeated Carol Ballersein, 355, and Brian Zaleski, 301.