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Flathead commissioners consider making election administrator an appointed post under county administrator
Summary
County staff presented a proposal to separate the election administrator role from the elected clerk and recorder and make it an appointed department head reporting to the county administrator; commissioners asked for a draft resolution and more detail on staffing, pay and timeline before acting.
County Administrator Pete Melnick opened discussion of a proposal to move the county’s election-administration duties out of the clerk-and-recorder office and make the election administrator an appointed position under the county administrator.
“Debbie Pearson, the clerk and recorder, had approached me… to talk about potentially moving the election administrator out of her responsibilities and into yours,” Melnick said, introducing the request and saying he did not expect a decision that day.
Vandy, the presenter of the written proposal, told commissioners the shift is prompted by recent statutory changes and the growing complexity of elections. “The clerk and recorder has always been the elected…
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