Redlands Business Owner Elected to Council, Two Council Incumbents Re-Elected

Voters re-elected two Redlands City Council incumbents and elected a business owner as the newest City Council member last week. City Council incumbents Jon Harrison and current Mayor Pro Tempore Paul Foster were each re-elected to serve on the council, Harrison taking 23.33 percent of the total votes, all precincts reporting, and Foster with 21.06 percent. Barich & Associates Marketing Services, Inc. President Paul Barich was elected to the council with 19.82 percent of the votes. Candidate John Harrison Montgomery with 6.77 percent, Jane Dreher with 16.53 percent, Neil Derry with 7.96 percent and Tabetha Wittenmyer with 4.52 percent did not win election to the council. Two Redlands Unified School District (RUSD) incumbents won re-election to their seats, a Republican candidate was elected to represent California's 40th Assembly District and an incumbent was re-elected to serve with the water board's Division 4 after last week's election. In the Redlands Unified School District, incumbents Patty Holohan and Donna West won re-election to their seats against opponent Ensen Mason. Holohan took 41.63 percent of the vote and West took 39.34 percent, with Mason garnering 19.03 percent of the votes for the school board. Incumbent Mark Bulot won re-election to represent the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, Division 4 seat with a landslide 81.85 percent of the vote to opponent Janel Perez's 18.15 percent vote. Marc Steinorth won election to the vacant California State Assembly, District 40 seat with 56.07 percent of the vote, against opponent Kathleen Henry, who had 43.93 percent of the vote. In Congress, current Redlands City Mayor Pete Aguilar was elected with 51.36 percent of the votes to represent California's District 31 in the U.S. House of Representatives, having run against opponent Paul Chabot, a Lieutenant Commander with the U.S. Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy Reserve, who took 48.64 percent of the vote. The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters website says as of Monday, Nov. 10, there are an estimated 156 mail ballots received at polling places on Election Day still to be counted and added to results; approximately 278 mail ballots and ballots cast at polling places on Election Day that were damaged and require duplication left to be counted and added to the results; and an estimated 14,931 various types of ballots including provisional ballots, mail ballots that require further signature review, and ballots cast that were damaged and require duplication to be counted and added to the results. Final Certified Results will be posted no later than Dec. 2.