Pismo Beach election results: Mary Ann Reiss and Stacy Inman lead in City Council race
Five candidates are running for two open seats on the Pismo Beach City Council in a race that remained competitive as ballot counts were released.
Erik Howell, Stacy Inman, Debora Ann Lossing, Mary Ann Reiss and Kevin Carl Kreowski are vying for positions.
As of 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, with 100% of precincts reporting, Mary Ann Reiss was leading with 27.9% of the vote, followed by Stacy Inman with 24.3%.
In third place was Kevin Carl Kreowski with 20.7%, trailed by Erik Howell with 18.8% and Debora Ann Lossing with 8.2%.
Pismo Beach Mayor Ed Waage was running unopposed.
Reiss, Inman lead Pismo Beach City Council race
As votes were counted late Tuesday night, Reiss thanked her supporters for her early lead.
“I’m so grateful for the community’s continued faith in me and I’m very excited to have the opportunity to continue serving on the city council,” Reiss told The Tribune.
Reiss was first elected to the Pismo Beach City Council in 1996 — and she’s yet to lose an election.
Reiss briefly left the council from 2004 to 2010, serving as the city’s first directly elected mayor during that time. She returned to the city council in 2010, serving through the current term.
Inman is an attorney who chaired the Pismo Beach Planning Commission for three years. She called water issues her top priority in this election.
“We have to look beyond Central Coast Blue,” she said, referring the South County water recycling project. “We really have to look at desalination.”
Inman attributed her early results to hard work, and said she walked through 75% to 80% of Pismo Beach’s streets while connecting with voters.
“I’m feeling very good and positive, and I hope that trend continues,” Inman said. “I just know that I worked extremely hard, and I don’t know what else I could have done to try and try and get elected.”
Howell has served on the California Coast Commission and previously served on Pismo Beach’s city council.
Like Inman, Howell called water issues the most important issue facing Pismo Beach today. He supports Central Coast Blue as a means of maintaining water sustainability.
“Ensuring a sustainable source of water is the most pressing issue facing our community,” Howell told The Tribune.
Lossing said while she was disappointed in the outcome of the election, she was happy with the effort she put forward, and was glad voters turned out for the election.
“Bottom line, I respect who the voters vote for,” Lossing said. “One of the biggest things that I was concerned with was making sure people get out and vote, so that was the biggest deal.”
This story was originally published November 8, 2022 at 8:18 PM.
