SchuenemanRich1Valley City (CSi) At Tuesday’s Valley City Public School Public School District school board election to elect the At-Large position, voters, and have elected  Valley City resident Rich Schueneman

Unofficial results show that Schueneman got 305 votes with incumbant Rick  Ross receiving 170 votes for the 3 year term.

School district Business Manager Linda Heit says 475 ballots were cast including  51  absentee. She said there were no write-in votes cast in the 2015 election.

During the 2012 school board election Rick Ross received 1,415 votes compared to incumbent Sharon Buhr who got 997 when there was a countywide election.

Incumbent Rick Ross was seeking another term on the school board. Ross is near the end of his first 4-year term.

Ross is an assistant professor at Valley City State University in the Division of Business & Information Technology Department.

He was challenged by Valley City resident Rich Schueneman is on the ballot for the At-Large position now held by Ross. Schueneman is the Bald Hill Dam Resource Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and previously served as a Valley City Commissioner  from 1996 to 2002.