Wrangell has two new elected officials after results of the Oct. 6 municipal election were certified.

Voters elected newcomer Reme Privett to a three-year term on the assembly and chose another first-time candidate, Jayme Howell, for a three-year term on the school board.

Howell defeated incumbent John DeRuyter for the school board, and Privett finished ahead of incumbent Phillip Mach in the assembly race.

Along with electing Privett, voters also retained John Yeager on the assembly.

It was a four-person race for the two assembly seats, with the win going to the top two vote-getters.

Final vote counts certified by the borough canvass board and accepted by the assembly on Oct. 8 were Yeager, 299; Privett, 251; Mach, 152; and LaDonna Botsford, 104.

In the school board race, Howell finished with 267 votes, followed by DeRuyter, with 95. Franki Gablehouse, who withdrew from the race after the ballots were printed, received 63 votes.

In the only other contested race on the Oct. 6 ballot, incumbent Antonio Silva retained his seat on the port commission, defeating challenger Mechel Meek 333 to 89.

Mayor Patty Gilbert ran unopposed in her bid for a third two-year term and received 389 votes.

Port Commissioner DJ McConachie also was unopposed in his reelection bid and received 410 votes.

The total vote count in the municipal election, after early and absentee and questioned ballots were tallied Oct. 8, came to 434, about 10% higher than the turnout for last year’s voting.

Howell’s first meeting as a member of the five-member school board was Monday, Oct. 12.

The seven-member assembly had two meetings scheduled for this week: A special meeting on Monday to go into a closed-door session to discuss “6-Mile mill site property strategy” — the borough is trying to attract state, federal and private funding to develop the property as a deepwater port and shipyard — and a regular meeting on Tuesday.

The next meeting for the five-member port commission is scheduled for Nov. 5.