Unofficially, with 100 percent of the 41 precincts reporting, Giambrone received 9,353 votes (23.1 percent) while Petrak earned 8,630 votes (21.3 percent) in the race for the two-year mayoral term.
Litteral, a first-time politician and the director of Greene County Adult Probation Department, got 7,813 votes (19.3 percent).
Upton, a third-time council candidate who works for G.E. Capital as an account manager in the consumer financing division, received 7749 votes (19.1 percent).
All four winners will serve four-year terms on the council. Sasser, a realtor and adjunct faculty member at Sinclair Community College, finished with 6,940 votes (17.1 percent) in her first run for public office.
“I’m deeply honored and ready to go to work,” Giambrone said. “We have a lot of really tough issues as we’ve talked about and I’m excited to have an opportunity to work with this group again. We’ve got a good group.”
Giambrone received a second straight term while Petrak earned a second straight and fifth overall. Petrak, a retired Wright-Patterson Air Force Base laboratory employee, was mayor, vice mayor and a councilman from 1992-2004. He sat out after that as dictated by term limits in the city charter.
Giambrone is a vice president at Dayton Children’s Medical Center who has touted Beavercreek as the lowest-cost government in the region. She has said she’s proud how the council has handled the economic downturn, cut $1 million from the budget and used citizen surveys to help decide issues such as the RTA bus stop application, which was voted down 6-0 earlier this year.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-6951 or mgokavi@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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