Dearborn residents voted Tuesday to raise the city tax rate by 4.5 mills and defeated a proposal to eliminate the Civil Service Commission.

On the Public School Board side, a new board member was elected and another long-time member kept his position for another term.

Voter turnout was a pathetic 21 percent with just 12,493 of the 59,160 registered voters in our city casting ballots. A lot more work has to be done by our elected officials but yesterday’s results were a big step in the right direction.

The results are below:

Proposal 1: 3.5-mill operating millage
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,420 (60.42 percent)

NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,860  (39.58)

Total . . . . . . . ….12,280

Proposal 2: 1-mill dedicated library millage

YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,379 (59.81 percent)

NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,959  (40.19)

Total . . . . . . . . . 12,338

Proposal 3: Should the city eliminate the Civil Service Commission? 

NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,158  (51.11 percent)

YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,891  (48.89)

Total . . . . . . . . . 12,049

Dearborn Public Schools Board Member 

Joseph A. Guido . . . . . . . . 5,988  (31.09 percent)

Roxanne McDonald . . . . .  5,922 (30.75)

Mary K. Petlichkoff . . . . . .  4,784 (24.84)

Stephen Stanley Dobkowski, Jr. . . . 2,528  (13.12)

WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 39 (.20)

Total . . . . . . . . . 19,261