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Dixon
Brickner
Barnett
Bates
FARMINGTON HILLS
Mayor
2-year term: $2,700/yr. pending
charter vote
7085
Nancy Bates
1774
George Sarkisian
McKeon
BIRMINGHAM
City Council
Four 4-year terms open: $5/mtg.
- Dianne McKeon
2001
Seth Chafetz
1984
* Russell Dixon
1977
* Dante Lanzetta
1484
* Scott Moore
1058
* Archie Damrnan
596
Jason Lewiston
480
Toby Renae Brown .
Here are Tuesday's election
results in selected races for cities
in the Jewish News circulation
area. Vote counts are unofficial.
Asterisks denote incumbents.
Winners' names are in boldface.
BERKLEY
Mayor
2-year term: $40 a meeting
up to $1,440 a year
* John Mark Mooney
City Council
Three 4-year terms open:
$1,800/yr• pending charter vote
7415
* Vicki Barnett
6033
Barry Brickner
4549
Christopher McRae
3724
Ronald Oliverio
1886
Paul Molin
White
Giliham Jenks
HUNTINGTON WOODS
Mayor
4-year term: $1/yr.
* Ron Gillham
City Commission
Two 4-year terms open: $1/yr.
* Mary White . ...... .733
.588
Jeffrey Jenks .. . ..
.512
* Leon Pratnicki
,
City Council
Three 4-year terms open: $30/mtg. up
to $1,080/yr.
885
Marilyn Stephan
855
Daniel Benton
850
Robert E. Bailey
FERNDALE
Mayor
2-year term pending charter vote:
stipend up to $750/yr.
2066
* Chuck Goedert
1501
Dennis Errimi
City Council
Two 4-year terms open: $10/mtg. up to
$500/yr.
1846
* Robert Porter
1802
Craig Covey
1440
Patrick Dengate
1253
Ken Miller
LATHRUP VILLAGE
City Council
Two 4-year terms open, one 2-year
term open: no pay
483
* Renee McClain
471
* Duane Welch
410
Todd Weglarz
11/5
1999
16 Detroit Jewish Ne
NOVI
Mayor
2-year term: $20/mtg.
Richard Clark
Michael Meyer
4825
2155
City Council
Three 4-year terms: $15/mtg.
Michelle Bononi
* Craig DeRoche
Louis Csordas
Brooks Thomas Decker
* Kathleen Mutch
* Bob Schmid
Steven Patrick Reed
3907
3716
2601
2367
2232
2083
1902
Abrams Seligson
Naftaly
OAK PARK
Mayor
2-year term: $5,724/yr.
* Gerald Naftaly
City Council
Two 4-year terms open,
$4,452/yr.; mayor pro tern,
$4,770/yr.
2451
* Raymond Abrams
2343
* Michael Seligson
(mayor pro tern)
Norman Allen II . . . . .1449
ROYAL OAK
Mayor
2-year term: $40/mtg. up to $2,400
4454
* Dennis Cowen
3934
Michael Andrzejak
HARRY KIRSBAUM
Staff -Writer
t was a near sweep for Jewish candi-
dates in this week's local elections, as
five incumbents and four challengers
won seats on city councils, and one
mayor was re-elected.
Gerald Naftaly, who ran unopposed for
Oak Park mayor, will keep his seat for anoth-
er two years, while Mayor Pro Tern Michael
Seligson and Raymond Abrams were re-elect-
ed to the city council.
Challenger Barry Brickner and incum-
bent Vicki Barnett won two of three open
seats on the Farmington Hills City Council,
while incumbent Mary White and chal-
lenger Jeffrey Jenks won seats on the
Huntington Woods City Commission. Seth
Chafetz succeeded in his bid for a
Birmingham City Commission seat.
Incumbent Sidney Lantz won a two-year
term, while challenger Jonathan Brateman
won a four-year term on the Southfield City
Brateman Lantz
Council. Joan Seymour lost in her bid for
SOUTHFIELD
city clerk.
City Council
"It feels wonderful," said Brateman, 42, a
Three 4-year terms open, one 2-year
commercial real estate broker of his
term open: $40/mtg. up to $3,000
Southfield victory. "I started this campaign
. 9 2
* Myron Frasier . .
back in February, and there were times that
.4721
* Sylvia Jordan . .
I got a litde worn out, but people would
.4174
Jonathan Brateinan •
come out of nowhere to lift me up and
4104
* Sidney T anti
make me feel great."
. .3477
Roy Bell
"I'm proud of my 'involvement in the
.2819
Robert Willis .
Jewish
community, which is a very signifi-
.1738
Eleanor Smith . . . . .
part of Southfield," he said, "and I think
. .1326
Marilyn Ann Williams •
we can accomplish a lot of things."
Clerk
Chafetz, 39, a resident professional at the
One 4-year term open: $79,000/yr.
Detroit
Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills, said
.
.$3,000
plus $40/mtg. up to .
his successful run for the Birmingham City
.5221
Nancy Banks . .
Commission was based on performance, not
. .2695
Joan Seymour
religious beliefs.
"I think that people got my message that
City Council
the
old people weren't getting the job done,
Three 4-year terms open: $20/mtg. u
and they wanted some new people to get the
to $1,200
4834
job done," he said "Birmingham has changed
* Ilene Lanfear
4327
a lot. The issue isn't whether I'm Jewish, the
* Tom Kuhn
4159
Jeanne Sarnacki
issue was that I am someone who has stood
3599
Kevin Lapham
up for the residents before, and that's what
3535
William Cahalan
they want up there now."
2244
Jim Rasor
Brickner, a challenger who won a seat on
Farmington
Hills City Council in his first
WALLED LAKE
attempt, said his familiarity while sitting on
City Council
the city's planning commission will make an
Three 2-year terms open: $5/mtg.
300
William Burke
easy transition to the city council.
283
* Heather Hill
"I wanted to make sure that city council
277
* Linda Ackley
stayed pretty much the way it was," he said.
259
Monica Lesnau
"The city already moves very smoothly." fl
136
Julie Lingenfelter
.
ORCHARD LAKE
Village Council
Two 3-year terms open: no pay
245
Nancy Davis
244
H. K. Sperlich
189
Edward F. Birrell Jr.
169
* Sylvia Beatty
96
Ernie Brooks
Most Jewish candidates are
victorious in local elections.