The election took place April 19 2011 filling the vacated seat by Larry Harper. There were 674 votes cast in Tega Cay with 214 votes for Chris Larsen which is almost 32% of the votes. Below is the election results.

Ballots Cast:     673

The vote will become official by 10 am Thursday. More on Chris Larsen on a post in last years special election.

See the Vote results at http://seetegacay.com/tega-cay/who-won-tega-cays-special-election-for-the-open-council-seat/

The next big event in Tega Cay is the special election to fill Larry Harper’s vacant city council seat. The ballet has been drafted and voting day in Tega Cay is Tuesday April 19th 2011.

There are  5 candidates that officially registered their candidacy for the council seat with the county elections committee.

I summarized basic info on each candidate below from the Fort Mill Times article by reporter Toya Graham. To see her full article go to the Fort Mill Times

Ralph S Hughes

A resident since 1970, 72, once managed Tega Cay’s golf facilities. Hughes has criticized the city for not doing a good job at running the golf course and allowing the club house restaurant and bar to close. Hughes claims he left the city with three hundred golf members, a good restaurant, good food, good service.

Eddie Davis

Davis, 39 is a 7 year resident of Tega Cay. He ran for a Tega Cay City Council seat six years ago, but lost to Les Conner. Davis is the owner of Business Capital Solutions. Davis wants to make sure Tega Cay stays on the right direction.

Jerry Church

Church, 54, has lived in Tega Cay for approx 11 years. Church is a 8 year member of the city’s planning Commission and has served on the advisory committee for about 18 months said. Church is a chemist for Lubrizol Inc of Charlotte. He claims he doesn’t have an agenda but does believe things can be improved in the city especially trusting the city council.

Chris Larsen

Larsen, 51, is a 15-year resident, and has served with the Tega Cay Police Department. Larsen served as the city’s code enforcement officer for five years. Larsen has run for a council seat as a write in vote in a prior election. He owns his own construction company. Larsen said he respects the current council and would look forward working with them.

Greg Rogers

Rogers, 30, who is the youngest candidate, is a consultant with Tega Cay-based Palmetto Group Consultants. He also serves on the Fort Mill School Board’s strategic planning committee. He also has served for about two years on York County’s economic development board. Rogers believes the city needs a younger adult on the council for diversity.

Here is a couple interesting facts on how Tega Cay voted in the Nov 2, 2010 mid term elections.

There are 3 voting precincts in the city of Tega Cay. There are 5,630 registered voters in Tega Cay SC. 2,724 votes were cast in Tega Cay yesterday. That represents a 48% voter turnout for Tega Cay compared to 47.82% for York County SC.

Interestingly, 44% of Tega Cay voters voted a straight party ticket. Of the 1,207 straight party votes, 75% of them were for Republicans.

*data compiled from the Registration and Elections Commission for York County, SC

To find out more election results for Fort Mill and York County go to Fort Mill Homes.

For Nov 2 2010 York County SC candidate info see article at Homesfortmill.com

John Dervay 432 (48% of votes)

Doug Collins 275 (31% of votes)

Write In Candidate Chris Larsen 193 (21% of votes)

(approx 17% of the registered voters)

(seetegacay.com poll had similar elections results see poll)

The official results will be certified by Thursday morning 10am.

John Dervay is a veteran council member and was on the city council until he lost by 6 votes in last Novembers election. John will be filling George Sheppard’s council seat which became available when George won the Tega Cay Mayor’s seat last November.

Information on John Dervay from his campaign website:

For those who don’t know me, I moved to Tega Cay in 1990, from Richmond, VA, where I was a Division Vice President of a Multi-National Corporation.  After retirement, I agreed to come to work with the City as a part time Code Enforcement Officer in 1996.  Within six months my position became full time, and within the next few years, I became the Zoning Administrator, Secretary to the Planning Commission as well as the Secretary to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

In this capacity, I was involved with numerous City construction projects such as Turner Field, Tega Cay walking trails, our water tower, the 200-foot flag pole (the cell tower), and reconstruction of over 21 of our old roads.  I also administered the Development Agreement with Newland for the Lakeshore project.  These projects, as well as many others completed over the years, are a benefit to each and every one of our citizens.

I love living and serving in Tega Cay and being part of the positive changes.  We’ve grown exponentially in the past ten years, which has created some growing pains.  As most of us know, things that worked well in a small town don’t always work well as a city grows.  I believe we’ve done a lot of things right, and there’s still plenty of opportunity for improvement.  Our staff, volunteers, citizens and council are continually suggesting and implementing ideas, all with the intent to make our city better.  I believe my understanding of ‘before’ is helpful in creating and implementing solutions for the future.  Some new projects I would propose we undertake are:

• Communications – I think we should create a Communications Committee to corral all the good ideas that have come from our citizens regarding communications and start implementing them.
• Fiscal Responsibility – Our budget (which I voted against) is not a proactive budget in a recession.  We’re waiting for bad things to happen and then reacting.  I think we have to have a more conservative budget and build a bigger contingency fund.  I think the new Council should have a budget workshop ASAP and formulate a conservative, proactive general fund budget.
• Tax Increases – No.  Outside money is the key.  We need to create a list of wants for our city and be ready to negotiate these with developers.  Additionally, we need to set up a Grant Committee to help City Staff research opportunities and ensure applications are submitted.

Annexation – We have an Annexation Policy that gives us information to make an intelligent decision. This includes input from all committees, council and residents.  We need a balance of residential and commercial property taxes and commercial income in order to cover the cost of basic services in the city, but the consideration must be made intelligently and in a controlled manner.I

Take a Moment to Listen To My Radio Interview with Manning Kimmel Live from Rock Hill onhttp://www.VoteDougCollins.com.Here is the link to the radio interview.
http://www.wrhi.com/view/straight-talk

I have enjoyed meeting so many of you these past weeks while out walking our neighborhood. I want to hear your questions and concerns for our City.

Turn out will be Imperative, Let’s Get Tega Cay Back on Track.
New Council, New Direction
VOTE February 9th
Tell Your Friends, Tell Your Neighbors.
Email Your Questions or Comments to me at Doug@VoteDougCollins.com.
I Ask for Your Vote.
Thank You to My Campaign Committee and All of You Who Have Pledged Support

. New Council, New Direction
. Common Sense Representation and Leadership
. Restore Recreational Tega Cay
. Control Spending
. Fiscal Conservative Budgets
. Fire Hydrants – A Must
. Equitable Budget for Fire Department
. Open Communication and Public Access
. Represent All, Our Processes Matter
. No New Annexation, Manage What We Have
. Governmental Accountability

I would like to see Tega Cay continue to move forward in the new direction set in November, and to begin to climb out of the debt we have acquired. I will take an active role to increase and improve communication and accountability for our City. I have been attending City Council Meetings and Planning Commission Meetings for the past several years. I feel the experience I have gained as a result of that participation, along with my life experience, and what I have learned and experienced living here in Tega Cay have prepared me to represent you, the citizens of Tega Cay.

I am running on an agenda of bringing Tega Cay back to her Citizens: communication, accountability, recreation, reputation, consideration.

I feel we need to better manage our budgets and reduce our expenses. I advocate fiscal responsibility and a stronger reliance on the tremendous breadth of resources and amenities we have in Tega Cay now and how these can play a part in improving the value of living here. We need to manage our current annexation and not undertake more acquisition.

Doug Collins for Tega Cay City Council
Tega Cay Resident Since 2004
7320 Cascading Pines

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
B.S., Business Management, 1973

Naval Reserve Officer
Captain USNR-R

Strong in Sales, Marketing,
Engineering, Management.

Owner and Broker in Charge
EDI Real Estate, LLC in Tega Cay, SC

National Manager, Governmental Energy Services
York International

Vice President, Energy and Facility Services
Premier, Inc.

National Energy Service Director
Columbia HCA

Regional Manager
San Diego Gas & Electric

Senior Account Executive Health Care
Design Engineer, Natural Gas Transmission Group
San Diego Gas & Electric

CAPTAIN, United States Naval Reserve

Director, Fleet Engineering Training, Pacific Fleet
United States Navy

Main Propulsion Officer
United States Navy, USS Turner Joy (DD951)

Long time Tega Cay resident Eric Hillman has asked to post the following information about Chris Larsen:

CHRIS LARSEN WRITE – IN VOTE For: TEGA CAY CITY COUNCIL

When: FEBRUARY 9, 2010 Time: 7am – 7pm

“Concern – Compassion- Knowledge -Action” with a strong voice to represent every person in Tega Cay.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND STRENGTHS:

• TURNER FIELD CONSTRUCTION and FINANCE
• RUNDE FIELD PLAYGROUND
• CONSTRUCTION OF PLAYGROUND
• VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH
• BETTER LIFESTYLE FOR TEGA CAY
• MORE PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES
• POSITIVE FORCE FOR ALL CITIZENS
• 14 YEAR RESIDENT OF TEGA CAY
• 14 YEARS FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE/ACTION
• ADMINISTRATION
• CODE ENFORCEMENT
• LAW ENFORCEMENT/SAFETY
• PUBLIC WORKS
• RECREATION/ATHLETICS

I am committed to take my years of experience and serve in a positive and compassionate manner. To ensure our city progresses for the benefit of our citizens and homeowners. Focus on keeping our city a safe place to live and creating new interests and adventures for all age groups. We have a great community of volunteers and a whole city of people with great ideas, I want to hear them. Whether it was securing financing and managing construction for Turner Field as a volunteer or volunteering my time and skills to better our city in other capacities, whatever it takes, I am the man to do it. Tega Cay has so much to offer. It needs a jump start and direction to bring revenue using existing facilities and progressing forward with a keen eye on finances. Let’s make our city the #1 place to live for all of us.

WRITE-IN PROCEDURE: PUSH WRITE-IN, TYPE IN CHRIS LARSEN, PUSH ACCEPT

Download Chris Larsen’s Flyer =>votechris

The Special Election day is  Feb. 9 2010.

Dervay, who in November lost his council seat by less than 12 votes to Stephen Perkins, filed Dec. 4, staking a claim for the at-large seat. Collins, 59, filed on Dec. 14, according to a York County Registration and Elections Office official.

Collins, the father of five and grandfather of one, is a Realtor and broker/owner of EDI Real Estate in Tega Cay. Before serving on the city council, Dervay formerly served the city in several roles, including city zoning administrator and code enforcement officer.

The Fort Mill Times reported 37% of the registered voters in Tega Cay voted Tuesday.

Mayor elect George Sheppard will have to resign his council seat. Once he resigns his seat, a special election date will be set to fill George’s council seat which is estimated to be sometime in February.

Tega Cay Mayor

*George Sheppard 1170

Bob Runde 769

Tega Cay City Council Seats (2)

*Dottie Hersey 849

*Stephen Perkins 712

John Dervay 706

Thomas J Fitzpatrick 621

Katie Shive 458

Keen McHugh 112

*Winners

Here are the un-certifed results from the Novemeber 3rd 2009 Tega Cay Election:

Tega Cay Municipal General Election

Mayor

George Sheppard – 1168

Bob Runde – 766

City Council – Two Seats to Fill

Dottie Hersey  – 845

Stephen Perkins – 712

John Dervay    – 703

Thomas J Fitzpatrick   – 619

Katie Shive – 458

Keen McHugh – 112

The Rock Hill Herald reported tonight Bob Runde who has served as Tega Cay’s Mayor since 2002, conceded his Mayoral seat to George Sheppard shortly before 8pm tonight.

Today’s SeeTegaCay.com poll predicted George Sheppard winning the Mayoral seat by 67%. The actual vote was by 60%.

According to the un-certified votes, Dottie Hersey and Stephen Perkins  have filled the two available city council seats.

According to the the York County SC election calendar, the votes will be certified by 10 am on November 5th.

A special election will be held to fill George Sheppard’s empty council seat.