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Curry tops all vote-getters in Loganville
Published November 3, 2009
LOGANVILLE — Residents in Loganville elected one new city council member Tuesday and voted to extend future terms to four years.
With less than 7 percent of the 6,241 registered voters casting ballots in this off-year election, Loganville voters elected newcomer Dan Curry to join incumbent councilmen Jerry Price and Wendell Geiger to serve the last two-year terms on the council. Councilman Pedro Vega, who was elected unopposed in a special election earlier this year, didn’t manage to get enough votes to earn another term on the council.
Curry was top vote-getter in the council race, with 318 votes; Price earned 248 votes, Geiger 232 and Vega 197. A total of 412 votes were cast, 45 absentee or early votes and 327 at the ballot from Walton County residents and four absentee or early votes and 36 at the ballot from Gwinnett County residents.
Just six votes split the decision to extend the council terms to four years instead of two with 193 voting for the referendum and 187 voting against it.
“The councilmen elected this time will serve two years, those elected next year will serve three and when these posts come around again in 2011, they will be elected to serve for four years,” said Loganville City Clerk Kristi Ash.
Vega said he was disappointed with the outcome but said he wasn’t ready to say whether he would run again in the future. This was Vega’s third defeat, having lost twice before being elected unopposed to serve out the remainder of former Councilman Austin Jones’ term when he moved out of the city.
“I have my mom and dad moved close to me now and that will take up some of my time anyway,” Vega said, adding he hopes those elected would continue in the same path the city had been taking.
Curry said he had felt good about the outcome going in but didn’t want to get over-confident.
“I had a lot of people tell me I would get in but you have to be careful not to count your chickens before they hatch,” Curry said, adding it was a tough day waiting for the polls to close and the votes to be tallied.
Having never held public office before, Curry said the first thing he will do when he takes office next year is get to know the various department heads and then look to see what he can do to help serve the people who elected him.
“I will always be accessible and if I can find any way we can save the taxpayers money, I would like to see if we can get that done,” Curry said.
Geiger said, as in all previous years, he wasn’t sure what the outcome would be but he was glad to be re-elected. Price said he appreciated being re-elected and expected the city to continue in the path it had been taking.
“As long as we can maintain the level of service we’ve been able to offer our citizens, that will be good,” Price said, adding he didn’t think the change in the council make-up with Vega off and Curry in would make much difference to how well the council worked together.
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