Update Friday, April 11, 2014 (final official results):
Former Arcadia Chamber President-Elect and current Chamber Ambassador Sho Tay was elected to the Arcadia City Council Tuesday night along with former Mayor Roger Chandler and newcomer Tom Beck.
Tom Beck and his wife thank supporters moments after election results were finalized.
Beck received by far the most votes (4,190, nearly 64%), while the final vote tally today had Sho Tay surpassing 55% with 3,594, just 19 more than Roger Chandler’s 3,575 (54.9%) in one of the smallest percentage of voters ever with 22% (6,516) of 29,382 registered voters, according to official final results reported by the City Clerk’s office this late afternoon. More than 430 ballots that came in late Tuesday were tallied today.
Vote totals for the other two candidates were 3,043 for Burton Brink (46.7%) and 498 (7.6%) for Paul Van Fleet.
Early in his campaign, Beck said business development would be a priority for him, and he met with Arcadia Chamber CEO Scott Hettrick to discuss busines-related issues.
The new Council Members will be sworn in during a reorganization ceremony in City Council chambers next Tuesday, April 15, during which Mayor Mickey Segal and two termed-out Council Members Bob Harbicht and Peter Amundson will be saluted. Mayor Pro Tem John Wuo and Gary Kovacic are the lone two Council Members remaining on the Council.
Sho Tay addresses the media alongside Singpoli’s Kin Hui minutes after election results were announced.
At his election night party hosted by Kin Hui’s Singpoli offices in Arcadia, Tay told media and supporters that he intends to follow through on his campaign pledges to work to unify the various cultures in town, to support and promote local businesses, and to find financial savings for the city and residents.
Chandler has supported major business developments in the past such as his enthusiastic endorsement of the once-proposed Shops at Santa Anita, which has since been abandoned.
Read a more detailed breakdown of the election results and comments by winning candidates at ArcadiasBest.com.
