ELECTION RESULTS-KENT COUNTY UNDATED (wgvu) - KENT COUNTY OFFICIALS GET THE GO-AHEAD FOR SOME RENOVATION AT THE COUNTY JAIL. VOTERS APPROVED A CONTROVERSIAL MILLAGE RENEWAL OF JUST UNDER EIGHT TENTHS OF A MIL THAT WILL PAY FOR DEMOLISHING SOME OF THE OLDER PARTS OF THE JAIL COMPLEX AND RENOVATING SOME OF THE NEWER PARTS.

THE ISSUE PASSED BY NEARLY 5,000 VOTES DESPITE LACK OF SUPPORT BY SOME HIGH RANKING KENT COUNTY OFFICIALS.

IN OTHER KENT COUNTY ISSUES, VOTERS IN EVERY AREA WITH MILLAGE ISSUES UP APPROVED THEM. THAT INCLUDES POLICE, FIRE, RECREATION AND MONEY FOR A NEW LIBRARY IN KENTWOOD. IN THE SHERIFF'S RACE, LARRY STELMA DEFEATED TWO REPUBLICAN CONTENDERS.

THERE WERE SOME UPSETS IN COMMISSION RACES. FRITZ WAHLFIELD LOST TO THOMAS ANTOR IN THE SECOND DISTRICT; DAVID MORREN DEFEATED BY BILL HIRSCH IN THE TENTH; AND LONG TIME COMMISSIONER DEMOCRAT PAUL MAYHUE FELL TO FORMER COMMISSIONER JIM TALEN.

IN THE OTHER CONTESTED RACES WHERE INCUMBENTS RAN, THEY WERE REELECTED.

AND ON THE 61ST DISTRICT COURT BALLOT, KIMBERLY SCHAEFER WAS THE TOP VOTE GETTER IN A THREE CANDIDATE NON PARTISAN FIELD. © Copyright 2009, wgvu