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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
City Council Regular Meeting: April 17, 2018
AGENDA ITEM: Appointing Deputy City Clerks for
Election Purposes
AGENDA SECTION:
Consent
PREPARED BY: Erin Fasbender, City Clerk AGENDA NO. 6.e.
ATTACHMENTS: Resolution APPROVED BY: LJM
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Motion to approve the attached resolution appointing deputy
city clerks for the purposes of serving on the absentee ballot board and administering the
2018 elections.
SUMMARY
Members of the Absentee Ballot Board are authorized to receive, examine, validate, and count absentee
ballots. Two board members work together on the preliminary accepting and rejecting of absentee ballots.
Minnesota Statute 203B.121 allows for deputy city clerks to be members of the Absentee Ballot Board if
they have had training in processing and counting of absentee ballots. In anticipation of high numbers of
absentee ballots due to the 2014 election law change that allows for “no excuse” absentee voting, staff
recommends the following city employees and/or positions be appointed deputy city clerks for the
duration of the election season;
• Stacy Bodsberg, Planning Secretary
• Jessie Barikmo, Public Works Secretary
• Sandi Amundson, Building Secretary
• Leah Armstrong, Election Clerk
• Temporary Elections Clerk(s)
• Sharon Nelson, Building Secretary
RECOMMENDATION
Motion to approve the attached resolution appointing deputy city clerks for the purposes of serving on the
absentee ballot board and administering 2018 elections.
CITY OF ROSEMOUNT
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2018 -
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING DEPUTY CITY CLERKS FOR THE PURPOSE OF
ADMINISTERING ELECTIONS
WHERAS, Minn. Stat. 203B.05 allows counties to designate municipalities to administer absentee
balloting; and
WHEREAS, Dakota County has designated the City of Rosemount to administer absentee ballots
for Rosemount voters; and
WHEREAS, Minnesota Statute 203B.121 requires the governing body of each municipality with
responsibility to accept and reject absentee ballots to establish a ballot board.
WHEREAS, Minnesota Statute 203B.121 allows for deputy city clerks trained in the processing and
counting of absentee ballots to serve on the absentee ballot board.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Rosemount,
Minnesota, that
a.) The appointment of the following people and/or positions to deputy city clerk is approved;
• Stacy Bodsberg, Building Secretary
• Sharon Nelson, Building Secretary
• Jessie Barikmo,, Public Works Secretary
• Sandi Amundson, Building Secretary
• Leah Armstrong, Election Clerk
• Temporary Elections Clerk(s)
b.) Said deputy city clerks are hereby appointed to the absentee ballot board, and
c.) These appointments shall expire on November 9, 2018.
ADOPTED this 17th day of April, 2018.
William H. Droste, Mayor
ATTEST:
Erin Fasbender, City Clerk