President Ribbons presented Resolution 2025-040 to certify the results of the October election at the request of the borough clerk. Borough Clerk Turner explained to the committee that on election night the office could not receive results via the normal encrypted cellular transmissions from precincts. "We had a small little hiccup that prevented us from doing that. So, my team and I called, all of our precincts, and we manually uploaded results on election night," she said.

Turner said once tabulation equipment was returned to the office the following morning, staff uploaded results directly from the tabulator memory cards. She emphasized that those uploads are still "unofficial" until the assembly certifies results following the canvas board audit: "They're not gonna be official results until the assembly certifies the election. But that is the main reason why we call them unofficial is because then we have to go through an auditing process. The canvas board comes in and verifies all of those, votes that were cast."

Assembly members who volunteered as election workers described the practical demands of serving at precincts. Mr. Tunseth (spelled in the transcript variously) and other volunteers said the work is long and can be confusing where precincts are split and different ballots are issued in a single precinct. "When you have split precincts ... the first question ... is where do you live? And quite often the response was, 'I'm Sterling number 2,' ... but we have to figure out which ballot they should get," one volunteer said. Clerk Turner confirmed that split precincts are a recurring administrative challenge and that the borough will continue training election workers; she said moving the borough election to November would not materially change how the borough administers split precincts.

Vice President Cooper asked that the certification item be pulled from the consent agenda so the Assembly can acknowledge the scale of work by the clerk's office; clerk staff confirmed an error in the committee agenda listing and said the item would be on the main agenda for consideration and can be pulled if necessary.

The transcript records no formal certification vote. The clerk said the manual uploads and subsequent memory-card uploads were completed and that the canvas board audit and the assembly's certification remain required steps before results are official.