“I think the plan is… to figure out with the staff: Where do we want to go? What are we good at? What are we not good at? Anderson said. “And then apply my vision of saying we need a much more customer-centric model. “I want people to be excited to work with the city of St. Cloud, whether they are developers or residents.”

St. Cloud School District residents also voted to elect four candidates to the St. Cloud School Board.

With 60 of 61 precincts reporting at midnight, the top vote-getters were Bruce Hentges (19%), incumbent Shannon Haws (17.5%), Diana Fenton (16%) and incumbent Scott Andreasen (16%).

Hentges, 74, is the retired executive director of the nonprofit St. Cloud Local Education and Activities Foundation and a former district employee. Haws, 59, is general manager of Comfort Keepers Home Health Care in Waite Park. Fenton, 52, is an associate professor of education at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University. Andreasen, 75, is a licensed private detective.

Incumbents Al Dahlgren (13%) and Mónica Segura-Schwartz (12%), along with newcomer Yoanna Ayala-Zaldana (5.6%), did not make the cut.