SEQUIM – On the Sequim City Council front, it looks like a clean sweep by the newcomers.
Three challengers and an outspoken architect were enjoying comfortable leads over the incumbents Tuesday night.
In the race for position 4, Sequim Planning Commissioner Susan Lorenzen garnered 858 votes, or 71.2 percent of the vote, over incumbent Don Hall’s 347 votes, or 28.8 percent.
Council seat 5 appears to be going to retired Hanford Nuclear Reservation physicist Erik Erichsen, who had 722 votes, or 61.29 percent of ballots counted, over appointed incumbent Bob Anundson, who had 456 votes, or 38.71 percent.
Laura Dubois, a retired budget analyst, received 881 votes, or 73.79 percent of the balloting for council seat 6. Incumbent Ron Farquhar had 313 votes, or 26.21 percent.
Seat 7, soon to be vacated by Councilman John Beitzel, seems to belong to architect Ken Hays, who had 776 votes, or 72.52 percent. Write-in candidate Marge Williams got 294 votes, or 27.48 percent.
“It’s great for us, the four challengers,” Hays said Tuesday night.
“We had a unified message,” of keeping Sequim “rural by design. It was never about being anti-growth. It’s possible to grow and do a better job managing it.”
