MASON CITY ELECTION RESULTS — Lee wins Mayor, Jaszewski re-elected to 4th Ward City Council

MASON CITY — Councilman John Lee has won the race for Mayor of Mason City by a just over 200 vote margin. Lee received 2342 votes, or 52%, to beat Kimber Kleven, who received 2123 votes. 

Lee has been a member of the City Council since 2012, representing the northeastern-based First Ward. 

Lee tells Northiowanow.com News that he thanks the voters for giving him the opportunity to continue representing the community.   “I’m very proud for my team and for how we ran the campaign and just tried to stay focused on Mason City and keeping it local. Obviously, the two people trying to represent the town that we love, and I’m very proud of how my team handled it, and obviously I have 48% of Mason Citians to convince them that the other 52% were not right, because it’s not right or wrong, I will do my best to support everybody and show everybody in this town, and I’ll represent everybody I guess.”

Lee says public safety and economic development are among the key issues he’d like to focus on in the next year.  “It’s always first and foremost public safety. You don’t really run on that, but I start every conversation with public safety. It’s our firemen, it’s our police officers, it’s the infrastructure, it’s the roads. That is always number one to me, and will always be number one to me. After that, you get into workforce development, trying to build our workforce here, partnering with NIACC, partnering with the Pappajohn Center, our schools obviously I know that intimately and I’ll do everything I can to expand those programs that we’ve started the last couple of years.” 

In the Fourth Ward city council race, John Jaszewski won re-election to the seat, beating challenger Rugby Sliger 499-405. 

The other two council seats on the ballot were uncontested races, with incumbents Tim Latham and Will Symonds earning another four years in their respective At-Large and Second Ward seats. 

All three spots up for election on the Park Board were uncontested, with incumbents Anne Hansen and Mike Doc Adams being re-elected, and they will be joined on the board by James Koppin.

It was an uncontested race for the Mason City School Board as well, with incumbents Cindy Garza and Carol Dettmer joined by Jennifer Cooley as winners. 

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