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By Peter Jones
Cathy Noon will be the second mayor of 8-year-old Centennial and the first woman to lead the city of 103,000 residents.
According to the uncertified tally by Arapahoe County, Noon has defeated her closest challenger, District 4 City Councilmember Todd Miller, by more than 7 percentage points.
Noon, chair of last year’s Centennial Charter Commission, beat Miller by about 1,400 votes, according to the unofficial results with more than 19,600 votes tabulated.
Two other lesser-known candidates, Mike Weber and Greg Schoenfeld, took several percentage points each in the unofficial tally.
The mayor-elect, the founding president of the Centennial Council of Neighborhoods who has never served on the city council, attributed her victory to a grassroots campaign that was spawned from her leadership of the nonpartisan charter commission.
The 21-member elected body — consisting of 10 Republicans, 10 Democrats and one unaffiliated voter — drafted Centennial’s voter-approved home-rule charter in 2008.
“The amount of volunteers and the help that I’ve gotten from so many citizens of the city, it’s just been amazing,” Noon said. “It’s very humbling. I feel very honored that they gave up their money, their time, their licking, their sticking, you name it.”
Miller has congratulated Noon on her victory.
“Cathy has always been a tremendous asset to the citizens of Centennial,” he said in a statement to the press. “I have a deep respect and admiration for Cathy and her tireless work on behalf of the citizens of Centennial. She will be an exceptional mayor. I look forward to working with her, as part of the city council, to take Centennial to new standards of accountability and excellence.”
Founding Mayor Randy Pye and a number of other Republican leaders had endorsed Miller, a former mayor pro tem, in the officially nonpartisan race. Noon and Miller are both Republicans.
Although Miller has been a popular figure on the eastern end of the city and ran unopposed for re-election in 2007, he is less known on the western half of the city, which is more urban and leans more middle-class with its older homes and population.
Noon will take office in January.
According to the uncertified tally by Arapahoe County, Noon has defeated her closest challenger, District 4 City Councilmember Todd Miller, by more than 7 percentage points.
Noon, chair of last year’s Centennial Charter Commission, beat Miller by about 1,400 votes, according to the unofficial results with more than 19,600 votes tabulated.
Two other lesser-known candidates, Mike Weber and Greg Schoenfeld, took several percentage points each in the unofficial tally.
The mayor-elect, the founding president of the Centennial Council of Neighborhoods who has never served on the city council, attributed her victory to a grassroots campaign that was spawned from her leadership of the nonpartisan charter commission.
The 21-member elected body — consisting of 10 Republicans, 10 Democrats and one unaffiliated voter — drafted Centennial’s voter-approved home-rule charter in 2008.
“The amount of volunteers and the help that I’ve gotten from so many citizens of the city, it’s just been amazing,” Noon said. “It’s very humbling. I feel very honored that they gave up their money, their time, their licking, their sticking, you name it.”
Miller has congratulated Noon on her victory.
“Cathy has always been a tremendous asset to the citizens of Centennial,” he said in a statement to the press. “I have a deep respect and admiration for Cathy and her tireless work on behalf of the citizens of Centennial. She will be an exceptional mayor. I look forward to working with her, as part of the city council, to take Centennial to new standards of accountability and excellence.”
Founding Mayor Randy Pye and a number of other Republican leaders had endorsed Miller, a former mayor pro tem, in the officially nonpartisan race. Noon and Miller are both Republicans.
Although Miller has been a popular figure on the eastern end of the city and ran unopposed for re-election in 2007, he is less known on the western half of the city, which is more urban and leans more middle-class with its older homes and population.
Noon will take office in January.
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