ELECTION RESULTS: School Levy Passes, Two Win Council Seats

Updated at 8:58 p.m.:

Dan Martin and Raylon Leaks-May have been elected to the Ferndale City Council with 44 percent and 36 percent of the vote, with all precincts reporting. Mayor David Coulter, who was unopposed, also won a second term.

Voters approved a charter amendment by a 71 percent margin, and a vote to reauthorize the Ferndale school levy passed by a 79 percent margin with six of 10 precincts reporting.

Our earlier report:

Voters in Ferndale will elect two people to four-year terms on the City Council in Tuesday’s election.

The candidates are newcomer Raylon Leaks-May and incumbents Dan Martin and William S. White.

Mayor David Coulter is unopposed in his bid for another two-year term.

Polls remain open until 8 p.m. If you’re unsure of where to vote, find your polling place here.

Voters are also deciding a couple of ballot measures.

A proposed amendment to the charter would modify the nominating deadline and process for counting nominating petitions in which a votr signs more petitions than the number of candidates to be elected.

Ferndale Public Schools are asking for reauthorization of a levy on non-homestad property (such as industrial, commercial and rental properties) that had been reduced by the Headlee Amendment. The proposal would continue the $20 per $1,000 taxable valuation already in place, raising $4,073,000 for the school district in 2016.

Taxes would not increase.