GRANT, Michigan — Two Grant Public Schools Board of Education members will remain in their seats following a May 7 recall election.
Rachal Gort and Richard Vance both won their recall races against respective challengers Mindy Conley and Lindsay Malich.
The recall stems from a community-driven effort to recall multiple members of the board after a controversial mural at the district's middle school's health center led to a debate about the health center itself.
The board of commissioners voted to end the district's contract with the health provider, only to have it renegotiated months later. The whole incident would allegedly cost the district thousands of dollars in legal fees.
The recall effort was headed by the Grant School Board Recall Initiative, where they sought to recall four members of the education board. Due to missing a filing window and a lack of signatures on one of the petitions, only two members were put on the ballot. The group also sought to recall Ken Thorne and Sabrina Veltkamp-Blok.
"Thank you to everyone that volunteered, collected signatures and helped in any way. We are disappointed in the results. They were very close but not enough. We ran an honest and transparent campaign," the Grant School Board Recall Initiative wrote on their Facebook page following the election.
Below are the results of the two recall elections.
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