Election night is over but Sacramento County workers are still wading in ballots. The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Department must keep counting votes, according to Brad Buyse, the county’s campaign services manager. Tens of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots were turned in Tuesday, he said. However, the county finished its precinct-counting from Tuesday’s voting.  Here is a roundup of local election results with all precincts reported: Sacramento City Council District 5 Education policy consultant Jay Schenirer had a significant lead by late Tuesday night. Schenirer: 53 percent Patrick Kennedy: 46 percent Sacramento City Council District 7 The two candidates are

Sacramento residents won't see monthly utility rates drop next summer after voters overwhelmingly rejected Measure B at the polls Tuesday. The initiative to roll back the city's rates for water, garbage and sewer services was failing by more than two to one late Tuesday night. With 287 out of 355 precincts counted, 41,328 – or 68 percent – of voters chose to stick with higher fees as of 10:55 p.m. More than 19,000 voters, or nearly 32 percent, had voted for the Utilities Rate Hike Roll Back Act of 2010 sponsored by the Sacramento County Taxpayers League, according to Sacramento County's elections department. The measure's opponents believe a rate decrease would have been a "risky approa

1:11 a.m. update final results The ballot counting is far from over. The Sacramento County Voter Registration and Elections Department still has to count tens of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots that were turned in to the polls Election Day, said Brad Buyse, Sacramento County’s campaign services manager. And there are thousands of vote-by-mail ballots sent to the county in the last three days that still need to be counted, Buyse said. Still, the elections department posted results late into the night on Wednesday. Here is where the following local measures stand: Measure B: Utilities Rollback The “no” side had 68 percent of the vote, with 93 percent of precincts reporting. Support fo

Check in here for hourly updates from Sacramento Press as we cover the election all over the city. Turnout was light this morning at Park Folsom Retirement Home on Wales Dr., Folsom.  Volunteers were ready to help voters. Photos by David Alvarez Kevin Johnson cast his vote at 11 a.m. at Pat Anderson Education Center at 2751 Wilmington Ave. After he voted, he commented on the World Series. "It was great ... when you're a Sacramento resident and you grow up in this community you root for the A's and the Giants and I can't think of any better prize on November 1st than the Giants clinching it on the road." Johnson added, "When I see people, my first question is, 'Did you vote?' If

Just five months ago The Sacramento Press covered its first primary election. We covered Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7 for the City Council race, sending someone to each of the 13 campaign parties and posting hourly updates on a live blog. And we did it with eight people: an editorial staff of five, two interns and a community contributor. This election won’t be much different in terms of staff. We’ll have our editorial team of five, four interns, two community contributors and a social media component. There are quite a few ballot choices that won't be on our live blog, but we will provide you with comprehensive coverage of the issues we do report on: Measure B, Measure C, Measure D, City Cou

  “Greed is good,” some say. If the adage is indeed true, then Sacramento’s municipal unions are doing good. It used to be rich capitalists who uttered these words in order to justify their wealth. But now it’s the city unions who, though they are not using that particular phraseology, are attempting to force the greed concept down your throat this Tuesday. Take, for example, the campaign to defeat Measure B, the Utilities Rate Rollback Initiative. It’s almost entirely financed by city unions who want you to pay higher utilities rates so their union members in the city utilities department can pocket higher raises and more benefits. They are already overpaid now compared to comparable p

   In a rather blatant effort to suppress a campaign message, opponents of Sacramento’s "Yes on Measure B" campaign" - also known as the Utilities Rate Rollback Initiative - have been engaging in wholesale theft and obscuring of campaign signs of the "Yes on Measure B" campaign in North and South Natomas, the same area as an infamous sign theft incident this past June involving campaign operatives of Natomas Councilmember Ray Tretheway.    At an 11:00 a.m. press conference today at the intersection of Del Paso Rd. and Natomas Blvd covered by local TV stations, "Yes on Measure B" campaign chair Craig Powell detailed the theft and/or cover-up of nearly 60 yard signs displayed in the Natomas

Sacramento City Councilman Kevin McCarty and Mayor Kevin Johnson both said Tuesday that the city’s Utilities Department should be audited. While the Utilities Department is not currently on City Auditor Jorge Oseguera’s audit schedule, it appears there is growing interest in the idea.  McCarty said at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting that he wanted to explore how the city could start an audit of the Utilities Department. Oseguera said he is now working on audits of the city’s health benefits program and the city’s vehicle fleet management division. “I think that (the Utilities Department) warrants getting on the list, (and) maybe even jumping in front of the other ones,” McCarty sai

Opponents and supporters of a November ballot measure to cut utilities rates in the city released their fundraising statements Tuesday. The new campaign statements provide information about money raised in recent months up to Sept. 30. The statements showed that the Yes on Measure B campaign had raised more than six times the money of the opposing campaign in the past few months. The No on Measure B campaign raised $6,000 by Sept. 30. Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 447 gave $5,000 to the campaign, while the Friends of Steve Cohn for City Council 2010 committee contributed the remaining $1,000. The Campaign for Common Sense Utilities Rates, which backs Measure B, had raised $39,822 from J

The agenda for September's meeting of the Area 1 Neighborhood Advisory Group (NAG) follows. Lt. Mike Bray hopes to have some updates from the police department on the Second Saturday shootings. Food banks have become a survival resource in todays economic climate. Many city park swiming pools have closed or are slated for closing.  Some Area 1 neighborhoods have managed to keep their pools open. We will hear what their stragities were to achieve this.  Measure B is a controversial ballot measure that could have longterm consequences on how the city utilities department operates and the delivery of services to city residents. Each month's NAG agenda is put together by residents of the