VALE â The first round of unofficial results for the 2021 Special District Director Election are in, with ballot boxes having closed at 8 p.m. Results, including voter percentage turnouts, remain unofficial until they are finalized by Malheur County Clerk Gayle Trotter on June 2.Â
âMajority will be complete by the time we go home tonight though,â she wrote in an email to the newspaper on Tuesday afternoon.Â
At 2:30 p.m., Trotter said 31% of ballots â 5,196 of the 17,053Â registered voters had returned their ballots, and an update was not available this evening.
Noteworthy highlights are that Malheur County Commissioners will have to meet three times per year to discuss âpromoting Malheur Countyâs interest in moving the Oregon-Idaho border.â Preliminary results show 1,824 yes votes compared to 1,627 no votes.Â
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Pursuant to the evaluation taking place in a public setting, the Ontario School Board of Directors has publicly released the final version of the letter to Superintendent Nicole Albisu that will go in her file along with her evaluation for the 2020-21 contract year.
Albisu has one year remaining on her contract, which the board opted not to renew until revisiting the matter on March 15, 2022. This was established during the last of three public meetings held for the purpose of the evaluation. It is noteworthy that the contract requires the board to give her 12 months notice of non-renewal.
It is also noteworthy that while the last meeting for the evaluation was held March 22, revisions were to be made to the letter following that meeting. The revised letter which was released to the public on April 5 was backdated to March 15. The deadline for the board to evaluate the superintendent was Feb. 28, which was not met for several reasons, including hiring an attorney for the p