The 1993 town elections in Chapel Hill and Carrboro

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1. January 28, 1993 Council member Art Werner says he will not seek a third term Werner, on the Chapel Hill Town Council since 1985 and founding president of the Chapel Hill Alliance of Neighborhoods, said the job's growing demands on his time had worn him out. He called Rosemary Square the most controversial issue of his years on the council. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Art WernerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1993, p. 3
2. August 6, 1993 Filing closes for the 1993 Chapel Hill, Carrboro and school board elections When filing closed for the November 2 elections, Mayor Ken Broun had no opponent, 11 residents were running for five Chapel Hill Town Council seats, Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird faced Alderman Hilliard Caldwell, six candidates sought three Carrboro aldermen seats and seven sought three seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board. Council members Julie Andresen and Art Werner and aldermen Tom Gurganus did not run again. People: Ellie Kinnaird, Hilliard Caldwell, Jacquelyn Gist Place: Orange County Board of Elections, Hillsborough · Also named: Ken Broun, Julie Andresen, Art Werner, Tom GurganusSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 25, 1993, p. 1
3. September 23, 1993 Tax Watch holds a candidates' forum for the 1993 Chapel Hill council and school board races At Town Hall on September 23, ten of the eleven candidates for five Chapel Hill Town Council seats spoke mostly of crime, police staffing and growth, and all eight candidates for three Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board seats spoke, several criticizing the board's handling of the sexual-orientation clause in its multicultural plan. Mayor Ken Broun, unopposed for a second term, also spoke. Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ken BrounSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 24, 1993, p. 1
4. by October 27, 1993 Younger Voters of Chapel Hill forms to endorse town and school candidates Council member Mark Chilton helped form Younger Voters of Chapel Hill, which endorsed LaVonda Burnette and Mary Bushnell for the school board and Joyce Brown, Barbara Powell, Jim Protzman and Scott Radway for the Town Council. A Daily Tar Heel editorial argued that a sitting council member should not endorse candidates. People: Mark Chilton Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joyce Brown, LaVonda Burnette, Mary Bushnell, Barbara Powell, Jim ProtzmanSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 27, 1993, p. 3
5. November 2-9, 1993 Carrboro elects Gist, Nelson and Anderson aldermen, and a recount upholds the result Incumbent Jacquelyn Gist (1,616 votes) and Mike Nelson (1,231) took two of the three open seats on November 2, and Hank Anderson edged Charles Riggsbee for the third. After Riggsbee found that a clerk had recorded 294 rather than 194 votes for Anderson in the Town Hall precinct, the Orange County Board of Elections recounted the whole race by machine on November 9 and Anderson kept the seat, 1,037 to 1,008; elections supervisor Bobby Strickland said it was the first Carrboro recount she could recall in 25 years. People: Jacquelyn Gist, Mike Nelson, Hank Anderson Place: Carrboro · Also named: Charles Riggsbee, Bobby StricklandSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1993, p. 3
6. November 2, 1993 Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Ken Broun and chooses six town council members Ken Broun, unopposed, won a second term as mayor with 6,630 votes. Of 11 council candidates, Rosemary Waldorf led with 6,196 votes; incumbents Joyce Brown and Barbara Powell were returned, Lee Pavao won the fourth four-year seat, and Jim Protzman and Pat Evans won the two years left in the seats of Roosevelt Wilkerson and Joe Herzenberg, while council member Alan Rimer finished seventh. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Ken Broun, Rosemary Waldorf, Joyce Brown, Barbara Powell, Lee Pavao, Jim Protzman, Pat Evans, Alan Rimer, Joe Herzenberg, Roosevelt WilkersonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1993, p. 1
7. November 2, 1993 Chapel Hill-Carrboro voters elect Mark Royster, Mary Bushnell and LaVonda Burnette to the school board Banker Mark Royster, chairman of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on African-American student achievement, led eight candidates with 7,030 votes, board chairwoman Mary Bushnell was re-elected with 6,743, and LaVonda Burnette, a 22-year-old part-time UNC student and graduate of the district, won the third seat by 113 votes over Bea Hughes-Werner. The Daily Tar Heel called Burnette the first University student to run for the board; she noted afterward that she and Bushnell had backed the multicultural plan's sexual-orientation clause while two candidates who opposed it lost. Place: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools · Also named: Mark Royster, Mary Bushnell, LaVonda Burnette, Bea Hughes-WernerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1993, p. 3
8. November 2, 1993 Eleanor Kinnaird defeats Hilliard Caldwell for a fourth term as Carrboro mayor Kinnaird won 1,605 votes, 60 percent, to 1,021 for Hilliard Caldwell, a 12-year member of the Board of Aldermen, whose service on the board ended with the race. She named the Carr Court community center, a town commons and a branch library as her goals and said this term would be her last. People: Ellie Kinnaird, Hilliard Caldwell Place: CarrboroSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1993, p. 1
9. November 2, 1993 Mike Nelson is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen Nelson won a seat on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in the election of November 2, 1993, finishing second of six candidates with 1,231 votes, and was sworn in on December 7; the Daily Tar Heel called him the only openly gay elected official in North Carolina. As an alderman he championed the domestic partners ordinance the town adopted in 1994. People: Mike Nelson Place: CarrboroSearch the index · UNC Wilson Special Collections Library: Michael R. Nelson Papers, circa 1890-2012 (#70140) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1993, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, December 9, 1993, p. 3
10. November 8, 1993 Rosemary Waldorf is sworn onto the Chapel Hill Town Council early to fill Joe Herzenberg's seat Because she drew the most votes on November 2, the council appointed Waldorf to the vacancy left by Herzenberg's September resignation, and she was sworn in at its November 8 meeting, weeks ahead of the other newly elected members. Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Rosemary WaldorfSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1993, p. 1
11. December 7, 1993 Hank Anderson and Mike Nelson take seats on the Carrboro Board of Aldermen Hank Anderson and Mike Nelson were sworn in as Carrboro aldermen on December 7, joining re-elected alderman Jacquelyn Gist and replacing Tom Gurganus, whose term had ended, and Hilliard Caldwell, who had lost the mayor's race to Eleanor Kinnaird. The Daily Tar Heel described Nelson as the only openly gay elected official in North Carolina; Anderson, a vice president of the local NAACP, said he wanted to organize the community against crime. People: Hank Anderson, Mike Nelson, Jacquelyn Gist, Hilliard Caldwell, Ellie Kinnaird Place: Town Hall, Carrboro · Also named: Tom GurganusThe Daily Tar Heel, December 9, 1993, p. 3
12. December 7, 1993 New Chapel Hill Town Council is sworn in, with Joyce Brown as mayor pro tem N.C. Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard swore in Mayor Ken Broun for his second term and council members Joyce Brown, Pat Evans, Lee Pavao, Barbara Powell, Jim Protzman and Rosemary Waldorf on December 7, and the council chose Brown, its most experienced remaining member, as mayor pro tem on Mark Chilton's nomination. The departing members, Julie Andresen, Alan Rimer and Art Werner, were honored with resolutions. People: Mark Chilton Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ken Broun, Joyce Brown, Pat Evans, Lee Pavao, Barbara Powell, Jim Protzman, Rosemary Waldorf, Willis Whichard, Julie Andresen, Alan Rimer, Art WernerSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 8, 1993, p. 3