GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — The people of Grand Haven cast their votes in Tuesday's general election to select their new mayor.
Bob Monetza won, beating Andrea Hendrick by nearly 1,000 votes. Monetza will be sworn into office in 2024.
Monetza will replace Catherine McNally as the Mayor after she was defeated in the primaries by Hendrick and Monetza.
McNally served a single term as Mayor of Grand Haven. A petition to recall McNally was approved by the county in October of 2022, but never went further than that.
Monetza was previously the Mayor of Grand Haven before he lost to McNally in the 2021 general election, and has made his previous experience in the role and elsewhere in local government a key selling point for his campaign.
Hendrick has worked as an urban planner, sitting on the Board of Directors for Grand Haven's Board of Light and Power.
As mayor, Monetza will take on top issues facing Grand Haven, including working with the Board of Light and Power to determine the usage and continued cleanup efforts of the city's Harbor Island that faced PFAS and coal ash contamination from its J.B. Sims Generating Station that was demolished in 2021.
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