VANCOUVER, Wash. - Tuesday's mayoral election in Vancouver will cap what is already being called the costliest in the city's history.

The contest between incumbent Royce Pollard and challenger Tim Leavitt has expenses soaring into the six figures: more than $144,000 for Pollard and $166,000 for Leavitt.

Some key comparisons:

• The two candidates disagree over the need for tolling to help pay for a new Interstate-5 bridge. Pollard wants tolls, Leavitt said the tolls Pollard proposes are too high.
• Both talk about Vancouver job creation.
• Both spent the weekend in a final push for votes.

"We've got some great projects already in the works," said Pollard, the current Vancouver mayor, to KATU Sunday. "Some great possibilities and there are a lot of people waiting to see what happens here."

Meanwhile, the current sitting councilmember Leavitt tells KATU that "government needs to get out of the way," he said. "We really want to create job opportunities here in Vancouver - for the people who live here - so that they don't need to commute out to Oregon."

Washington state does not charge income tax from those working in Vancouver. However, proponents of more Vancouver jobs contend that in the end more dollars then would be spent in Vancouver, gaining the city income from local sales taxes.

More than 133,000 commuters took the Interstate 5 and 205 bridges from Vancouver into Portland every day in 2008. That's according to traffic statistics from the Oregon Department of Transportation.