BRIGHAM CITY -- Willard Mayor Ryan Tingey will resign his city position in December so he can serve as a county commissioner.
With 75 percent of the votes, Tingey defeated incumbent Commissioner Rich VanDyke at the Republican Party county convention Thursday in the race for County Commission Seat A.
All of the convention winners for county seats were assured of election in November because no Democratic Party members filed for those positions.
When Tingey spoke to the convention Thursday evening, he said his first priority would be to change county commission meetings from mornings to evenings, when the public can more easily attend.
"I'm going to stick to that," he said Friday morning.
"I ran my platform based on communication and education; I want to educate the public by actually communicating with them."
Tingey was elected in November to his second term as Willard mayor.
"Just as a local elected official trying to work with the county, I had had it," he said.
Tingey, who said he had expected to go through a primary election, said he is "absolutely excited" over the results.
In early December, the Willard City Council will appoint an interim mayor to serve until the next general election.
Tingey is looking forward to working with both Commissioner Brian Schaffer and LuAnn Adams, who won county commission Seat B with 67 percent of the convention delegate votes.
Adams beat Stan Summers, Charles W. Smith and Darwin E. Bingham.
"We're going to change the whole outlook of the county commission," Tingey said.
Delegates decided the outcome of all but one elected office Thursday. Voters will decide in a June primary who will run the county assessor's office.
Rodney Bennett won 56 percent of the votes in the convention vote for the assessor's office, just shy of the 60 percent required to not face a primary.
L. Robert Dilley was the runner-up with 44 percent.
Bennett and Dilley will face off in a primary election in June.
Chad Montgomery received 64 percent of the votes, making him the clear winner of the county recorder position, while Marla Young received 85 percent of the votes for county clerk.
David Kano withdrew from the race for county treasurer, leaving Shaun Thornley unopposed. County Sheriff Lynn Yates and County Attorney Stephen Hadfield also were unopposed.
Votes were cast by 332 delegates who had been selected in local caucuses to represent their communities. They used instant run-off or preferential voting, which allowed them to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.
Votes of the lowest-ranking candidate were redistributed to the higher-ranking candidate, leaving two finalists in each category.
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