The final day for voting in Iowa comes Tuesday in the elections for school board, city council and mayor positions.
Early voting in Woodbury County began on October 15, and more than 1,800 early ballots have been returned in the county, and the pace of early voting is accelerating.
“We’ve had a lot of people voting here at the county (Courthouse) office,” over the last week, Woodbury County elections official Steve Hofmeyer said Monday afternoon.
Early ballots in all Iowa counties will be tallied into totals once polls close at 8 p.m. Tuesday. People have 13 hours to vote, beginning at 7 a.m.
In Sioux City, voters will determine three members of the Sioux City School Board and also three members of the Sioux City Council.
The seven candidates for the Sioux City School Board include three incumbents, with Jan George, Bobby Michaelson and Dan Greenwell, plus A.J. Cecil Starlin, Cyndi Hanson, Jebadiah Hibbs, and Christian Supiot-Perez.
There are no current Sioux City Council members running for re-election, with those on the ballot being Craig Berenstein, Rick Bertrand, Ike Rayford, Marty Pottebaum, John Den Beste, and Paul Koskovich.
Pottebaum and Berenstein are former city council members.
Also on the ballot are a host of bond issue measures, including for school facilities in the Sergeant Bluff-Luton School District, plus also Emmetsburg, Lawton-Bronson, Westwood of Sloan, Iowa, and in the Hinton district in Plymouth County.
The largest dollar total of those school measures is for $37 million at Sergeant Bluff.
In non-school bond issues, there is a $12.5 million measure for a new jail building in Sac County, $16 million for a fire hall in Le Mars and $1.2 million for a library in Alta in Buena Vista County.
In other news, the Sioux City School Board members have slated a noon Tuesday meeting that will be held in closed session to discuss a matter involving litigation.
That school board meeting will be held at the downtown administrative building at 627 Fourth Street. Once the closed session is concluded, the agenda says a discussion or vote could take place in open session, concerning a matter currently in litigation.
