Kingfisher County school and city elections scheduled for April 7 have all been postponed to June 30 after a state election board emergency declaration triggered meetings of local governing bodies Wednesday.

Postponed elections include the following:

•Kingfisher mayor and commissioner elections.

•Kingfisher half-cent sales tax.

•Okarche school board election.

•Dover Public School building bond election.

Another school board race for Cimarron school district, which includes some Kingfisher County to be postponed. precincts, also was expected

By default, current office holders at the city of Kingfisher and Okarche and Cimarron school districts will remain in place until their successors are elected June 30.

For Kingfisher, those elected officials include May or Steve Richards and Commissioner Tammy Mueggenborg, both of whom were barred from seeking re-election by city charter term limits.

Stephanie Jeffrey, Okarche school board member who is running for re-election, will retain her seat at least until the June election.

Candidates for each office will remain the same on the June 30 ballot.

Kingfisher city commissioner: Kyle Mecklenburg and Richard Ray Reynolds.

Kingfisher mayor: Roxanne Alexander (current vice mayor), and Joy Ludwig.

Okarche school board: Stephanie Jeffrey, incumbent, and Rob Anderson.

The state declaration allowed County Election Board Secretary Shawna Butts, as well as her counterparts in the other 73 counties holding April 7 elections, to accept resolutions adopted by the governing bodies involved to move their elections to the June 30 date.

Kingfisher City Commission and Okarche and Dover school boards all met in separate emergency meetings Wednesday to authorize those resolutions.

Each entity also will bear its respective costs for its election, under the terms of the declaration.

The state decision relieves the burden from the county to find a way to conduct the April 7 election to limit potential coronavirus exposure for election workers as well as voters without suppressing voter turnout, one of the issues county commissioners discussed in their own emergency meeting Wednesday morning..

Kingfisher city commissioners unanimously approved the election postponement as part of a comprehensive emergency declaration (see related story).

Their unanimous vote allows City Manager Dave Slezickey to draft a resolution calling for the June 30 election which also contains language rescinding the previous resolution calling for the April 7 vote.