More Weatherwax vote

 According to Vern Spatz, Grays Harbor County Auditor, 3,279 ballots were mailed to Ocean Shores residents. As of this morning, “we’ve received  back 2,371.” That number did not include all of the mail collected at his office yesterday, nor “400-plus” votes from the box at the Convention Center that were delivered to Montesano last night.

    Last night’s first count of just over 2,000 voters showed 66 percent voted to “retain” Weatherwax.

       Spatz is expecting Ocean Shores to meet his county-wide projects of at least 80 percent voter participation. (Ocean Shores would need to have 2,624 votes counted to make the 80 percent mark.)  The vote count will be up-dated late Friday afternoon, with another update on Wednesday, and a final certified count on Nov. 25

Two more council members weighed in with comments on the preliminary count:

Peggy Berry: “I believe the residents in our community sent a fantastic statement to our city leaders.  RETAIN THE WEATHERWAX!  This is exactly what I heard from the people in 2007 when I walked door to door campaigning for city council. Thank you to everyone who exercised their right to vote.  Now we can move forward continuing to make Ocean Shores the best place to live in Washington State.”

 Robert Crumpacker: “I am very happy the voters seem to have given a clear message that they see the long term wisdom of keeping the Weatherwax intact.  Property is not something  that can be replaced   here  and especially a very unique property !!   I believe we can now move forward to other important issues while moving to institute the will of the voters.”