Five candidates have filed for two seats on the Kennewick Irrigation District board of directors that come up for election Dec. 8.
Incumbent Patrick McGuire will be opposed by James E. Wade and John Blanco for Position 2.
And Richard C. McAloon is challenging incumbent Gene A. Huffman for Position 5.
McGuire and Huffman were elected to the board last December to positions that were vacant and are required to run again this year.
Wade ran unsuccessfully last year for the KID board.
McAloon is making his first bid to be a KID director.
The election will be conducted by mail with absentee ballots and with a walk-in polling place at KID offices, 12 W. Kennewick Ave. All property owners in the 55,000-acre district can vote.
There are approximately 20,600 irrigable acres divided into about 21,000 parcels, and about 35,000 dry acres.
State law assigns two votes for each five aces or portion thereof. That gives each property owner at least two votes, with those who own larger parcels having more votes.
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David McKenzie, current board president, has two challengers for the Position 3 seat. The Finley farmer was elected to the board in 2008, defeating incumbent William Kinsel.
Jim Wade, who is retired and also ran in 2008, often attends KID meetings as an observer and critic. This is his fourth attempt to get on the five-member KID board.
Kennewick property owners to vote on irrigation district boards
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KENNEWICK — Property owners in the Kennewick and Columbia irrigation districts will elect board directors next week.
The two water districts, both headquartered in Kennewick, are the only two among eight in the Mid-Columbia with vacancies going to voters.
Election notices had to be posted this week, as required by state law.
3 in running for Kennewick Irrigation District board seat
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KENNEWICK -- Property owners in the Kennewick Irrigation District will choose between three candidates Tuesday to fill vacancies on the boards of directors.
State law designated the second Tuesday of December for irrigation district elections, and all voting will occur at the district offices between 1 and 8 p.m.
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KID to record calls from irate customers
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The Kennewick Irrigation District board is starting 2012 by forming a citizen-based planning committee, a new practice of recording calls from irate customers and it hopes to start charging for election recounts.
Tuesday's board meeting also saw Gene Huffman chosen as board president and Patrick McGuire as vice president.
Chuck Freeman, district secretary-manager, said recording phone calls would be useful for training, for assessing employees' performance and for documenting unfriendly callers who "could present threats to KID staff or business."
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The candidates for Kennewick School Board, Position 5, are veteran campaigner Uby Creek on her third attempt and newcomer Brian Brooks. Brooks was recently selected by the school board over Creek for a temporary board vacancy. Voters have also said "no" two times to Creek in past elections. In 2009 she received only 41 percent of the votes, nearly handing her opponent a landslide victory.
Her support dropped by close to 1,300 votes between the 2007 to 2009 elections. Voters recognized her position to change the current focus on popular and effective reading and catchup programs to be detrimental for kids. In this year's primary, voters cast nearly as many votes for Brooks, a relatively unknown candidate, as they did for Creek.
Despite these outcomes, she continues to push the same platform and suggests she deserves your vote because she is Hispanic and speaks Spanish. However, Brooks has lived in Latin America and speaks Spanish in his therapy practice. Currently serving on the board, Brooks is gaining
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