Incumbents Rule in Lindbergh, Northwest School District Elections; Not So Much in Rockwood

Incumbent school board members in the Northwest and Lindbergh school districts easily won re-election Tuesday, outpacing their challengers by wide margins.

In the Northwest R-1 school board race, Gary Bonacker and Nancy Bergfeld cruised to victory with 1,560 and 1,387 votes, respectively. Challenger Scott E. Reed tallied 961 votes.

In the Lindbergh School District Board of Education race, incumbent board member Vic Lenz garnered 4,065 votes and incumbent Kara Gotsch received 3,515 votes. The two challengers - Adam McBride and Cindy McDaniel - received 2,223 and 2,683 votes, respectively.

It was a different story in the Rockwood School District, where two imcumbents were rejected by the voters who also voted down the district's $38.4 million bond issue proposal.

Incumbents Stephen Banton and Janet Strate came up short in their bids for re-election.

The final vote tally was:

• Banton - 4,708 (17.7%)
• Strate - 4,250 (15.97%)
• Loralee Mondl -9,668 (36.34%)
• Jeffrey R. Morrell - 7,815 (29.37%)

Rockwood's Proposition S, a $38.4 million bond issue to pay for a variety of improvements in the district, needed a 57.15 percent approval margin for passage, but only garnered 47.02 percent approval, generating 8,214 YES votes as opposed to 9,256 NO votes.