Debora Fudge, Bruce Okrepkie lead race for Windsor Town Council seats

Windsor Town Council members Debora Fudge and Bruce Okrepkie were headed for re-election early Wednesday, with three challengers also competing for two seats on the council.

Fudge, a five-time mayor, was in front with 26 percent of the votes, followed by Okrepkie, an insurance broker, with 22.4 percent with 11 out of 11 precincts reporting. Mike Wall, a health care consultant, had 20.2 percent; Rosa Reynoza, a vineyard business manager making her first run for office, had 17.9 percent; and Julia Donoho, an architect and attorney making her second try for a council seat, had 13.5 percent.

“I feel confident,” Fudge said. “I did not take this election for granted at all.”

Growth was a focal point of the campaign in the county's fourth-largest city, where two downtown apartment projects that would add nearly 800 units are in the pipeline, along with a housing development on the town's periphery planned by the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians.

Fudge said the results were an endorsement of the current council's record. “I think we'll be able to work together going forward,” she said.

Four years ago, Fudge noted, she and Okrepkie won without an election because they were the only two candidates.