The results for the School Board Trustees in the Cariboo-Chilcotin and Quesnel have been finalized.
In the Cariboo-Chilcotin School District #27, there are three returning trustees to its board. Incumbents Melissa Coates and Mary Forbes will keep their seats for Zone 4 and Zone 5, respectively.
Coates received 83 votes and defeated her opponent, Laura Zimmerman, who received 21.
Forbes got 280 votes in Zone 5. She defeated Nicole Berreth, who got 157.
For Zone 1’s trustee, Ella (Elizabeth) Brown won with 230 votes. Brown defeated Dolores Casellato, who got 213 votes; Eric De Vries, who got 157 votes; and Sheri Elgersma, who got 147 votes.
Incumbents Michael Franklin, Jenny Philbrick, and Williams Shepherd were acclaimed.
In Quesnel, three incumbents have been re-elected as School Board Trustees.
Lisa Boudreau topped the polls, receiving 1,787 votes. Tony Goulet will be returning; he came second in the polls with 1,636 votes, and Julia-Anne Runge has also been re-elected, receiving 1,163 votes, fifth in the polls.
New to the Quesnel School Board of Trustees are Lisa Scott, Tarin Lefebvre, Mike Page, and Tracy Telford.
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