Nine County Courthouse races and six local school board races are on the ballot in November and candidates must declare their intentions to run this week. The deadline for filing the necessary paperwork to run for office is March 19 at 5 p.m.

Besides two seats on the Summit County Council, other countywide races include assessor, auditor, attorney, clerk, sheriff, recorder and treasurer. Voters on Election Day will also select two members for each of the three school boards in Summit County, which are nonpartisan.

Federal offices on the November ballot include seats in the U.S. Senate and Utah’s 1st Congressional District. The state races are governor, lieutenant governor, Senate District 26 and House Districts 25 and 53.

State Sen. Kevin Van Tassell, a Republican who represents District 26, filed for another term on Friday.

In the race for House District 25, Republicans Janice Clemmer and Rick Raile filed as candidates. Democrat John Netto also filed as a candidate for District 25.

State Rep. Mel Brown, a Coalville Republican who represents District 53, filed Friday for another term. Summit County Democratic Party Chairman Glenn Wright filed for District 53 as a Democrat.

Candidates must register in person during the filing window at the Summit County Clerk’s Office, 60 N. Main Street in Coalville.

Several Republican candidates filed in county races on Friday.

Republican Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds is running for his third term. Republican Summit County Attorney David Brickey is also running for his third term. Republican Summit County Councilman David Ure is running for his second term.

Summit County GOP Chairman Henry Glasheen filed as a candidate in the treasurer race. Republican Richard Motto registered in the clerk race and Republican Robert Hunt filed as a candidate for assessor.

The GOP hopes to win county offices that for years have been held by Democrats, Glasheen said.

“We have had an enormous amount of interest,” Glasheen said in a telephone interview Friday. “We have done a lot to try and bring people out and it is working.”

Several Democrats on Friday also threw their hats into the ring. Summit County Clerk Kent Jones, a Democrat, and Summit County Auditor Blake Frazier, a Democrat, each filed for another term. Democratic Summit County Recorder Alan Spriggs also filed for another term on Friday.

Democrat Steve Martin filed in the assessor race and Democrat Corrie Kirklen registered as a candidate for treasurer.

Democrats Dax Shane and Alan Siddoway filed in the sheriff race, which is generating the most local interest. Siddoway is a Summit County Sheriff’s Office sergeant and Shane is a police officer in Salt Lake City.

Wright said his party plans to win the sheriff race in November.

“[Siddoway] has an enormous amount of experience on the job and if he gets the nomination he will give Dave Edmunds a very strong run,” Wright said.

Some citizens are concerned about the “politicization” of the Sheriff’s Office by Edmunds, Wright said.

“The fact that both [Siddoway] and [Shane] have come out in the race shows the general level of dissatisfaction to some of the things that are going on in the sheriff’s department,” Wright said. “There are some problems there. There has been a fair amount of turnover and those are the issues that are going to be coming out in both the primary campaigns and the general election.”

But Glasheen said critics of the sheriff are upset by some difficult decisions Edmunds has made.

“[Edmunds] has had to fire some people who were not up to speed with what he wanted the Sheriff’s Office to be,” Glasheen said.

Meanwhile, candidates filed in several school board races on Friday. Park City Board of Education member Michael Boyle filed for another term in District 5 and Charles Cunningham filed in the District 4 race.

Steven Hardman filed in the race for District 4 on the South Summit Board of Education and Michael Calderwood filed for District 4 in the North Summit School District.

Information for those interested in filing as a candidate is available at www.summitcounty.org/clerk/candidates.html. The dates for caucus meetings, conventions and elections are posted at www.summitcounty.org/clerk/elections.html.

The filing fee for county and state elected offices equals 1/8 of 1 percent of the salary for the term of the position.

County council — $145

County clerk — $461.86

County attorney — $593.84

County sheriff — $485.78

County treasurer — $461.86

County recorder — $461.86

County assessor — $461.86

School board — $25

State Senate — $26.30

State House — $13