{"id":16173,"date":"2015-11-04T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=16173"},"modified":"2016-02-11T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T14:32:51","slug":"jamestown-city-government-to-see-little-change-following-2015-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/jamestown-city-government-to-see-little-change-following-2015-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown City Government to See Little Change Following 2015 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11162\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/independent-audit-of-2013-city-finances-reveals-no-significant-deficincies\/jamestown-5-25x5-25-logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?fit=500%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,504\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;JAMESTOWN 5.25x5.25 logo&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JAMESTOWN seal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?fit=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?fit=500%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11162\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?resize=299%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"JAMESTOWN seal\" width=\"299\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/JamestownSeal.jpg?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>JAMESTOWN &#8211; Not much will change in \u202aJamestown city government for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Mayor Sam Teresi (D) was elected to a fifth consecutive term. Teresi ran unopposed, receiving 1983 votes. There was also 132 write-ins.<\/p>\n<p>For the Jamestown City Council races, of the nine current members, only one was defeated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ward 3<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Alphonso Pagan<\/strong> (R) was defeated by <strong>Vicki James<\/strong> (D) 136 to 97. All other council members were reelected, including those who faced opposition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WARD 1: incumbent <strong>Brent Sheldon<\/strong> (R) 249 d. <strong>Tyler Case<\/strong> (D) 155<\/li>\n<li>WARD 2: incumbent <strong>Anthony Dolce<\/strong> (R) 389 d. <strong>Joseph Scapelitte<\/strong> (D) 157<\/li>\n<li>WARD 4: incumbent <strong>Marie Carrubba<\/strong> 426 (D) d. <strong>Richard Elardo<\/strong> (R) 234<\/li>\n<li>WARD 5: incumbent <strong>Maria Jones<\/strong> (D) 210 d. <strong>Stephen Gordon<\/strong> (R) 187<\/li>\n<li>WARD 6: incumbent <strong>Thomas Nelson<\/strong> (D) ran unopposed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All Three at large council members also ran unopposed and were reelected. They are council president <strong>Gregory Rabb<\/strong> (D), <strong>George Spitale<\/strong> (D) and Kim Ecklund (R).<\/p>\n<p>There will be 6 Democrats and 3 Republicans once the new term begins in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN &#8211; Not much will change in \u202aJamestown city government for 2016. Jamestown Mayor Sam Teresi (D) was elected to a fifth consecutive term. Teresi ran unopposed, receiving 1983 votes. There was also 132 write-ins. For the Jamestown City Council races, of the nine current members, only one was defeated. Ward 3&#8216;s Alphonso Pagan (R) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Jamestown City Government to See Little Change Following 2015 Election","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4550,4568,277,2560,979,1122,5879,1365,1494,1496,2995,1984,5880,4765,2269,5878,2342],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jamestownseal-feature.png?fit=332%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-4cR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16174,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16173\/revisions\/16174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}