Nemaha County voters favor Clark, election of county surveyor

AUBURN – Nemaha County voters chose to elect, rather than appoint, a county surveyor, favored Thomas Clark for Auburn City Council and elected three for the Johnson Village Board.
A Ward 1 seat on the Auburn City Council had been contested between incumbent Thomas Clark and Benjamin Bohling.
Bohling, an MMA fighter has been working with FEMA at Alexandria, La., said he would fly back to Nebraska to vote in person in Auburn on election day.
Thomas Clark was elected to his third term on a vote of 291 to 131.
His goals for the third term are to continue to help retain business, encourage job growth and to ensure that the city is attractive to people looking to relocate to a smaller community.
Clark was born and raised in Auburn and worked 40 years for the Union Pacific Railroad.
There were five candidates for three spots on the Johnson Village Board. Elected were Travis Knippelmeyer, Neal Hahn and Irene Seeba.
Voters also favored electing the county surveyor by a vote of 1,894 to 1,266.
In 2014, the state Legislature approved a bill that would allow counties with populations less than 150,000 residents to ask voters if they wanted an elected county surveyor and surveyor appointed by the county board.
Nemaha County currently has an appointed surveyor and Bryan Mellage of the county board says he is satisfied with the job remaining with an appointed position.
Mellage won re-election Tuesday with 983 votes.
Nemaha County Ballot (9 of 9 precincts)
President
Donald Trump, 2,396
Joseph Biden, 911
Senate
Ben Sasse, 2,482
Chris Janicek, 517
US House
Adrian Smith, 2,499
Mark Elworth Jr., 639
County Board
Bryan Mellage, 983
Nemaha County Surveyor
For election of surveyor, 1,894
Against election of surveyor, 1,266
State Legislature
Julie Slama, 2,686
Janet Palmtag, 656
Auburn school board (29) (vote for 3)
James Paschal, 1,462
Stephen Kennedy, 1,815
Bill Chapin, 1,687
Johnson-Brock (23) (vote for 3)
Thomas Teten, 494
Blayne Behrends, 588
Auburn First Ward
Thomas Clark, 291
Benjamin Bohling, 131
Auburn Second Ward
Rick Janssen, 515
Auburn Third Ward
Jeff Jeanneret, 440
Mayor of Peru
David Pease, 132
Peru West Ward
Marty Peregoy, 33
Total write-ins, 43
Peru East Ward
NA
Brownville board (two openings)
Terry Vice, 63
Bailey Bindle, 56
Johnson village Board (vote for 3)
Travis Knippelmeyer, 123
Irene Seeba, 90
Scott Pelican, 43
Lynn Lyon, 86
Chris Armknecht, 12
Neal Hahn, 105
Julian board (vote for 3)
Patrick Hodges, 20
Ken Burgert, 19
Nemaha village (vote for 3)
George Childers, 36
JD Roberts, 29
Michael Hall, 54