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Sylvan Lake adopts proclamation thanking election inspectors; manager praises longtime clerk
Summary
The council adopted a proclamation recognizing election inspectors and receiving board members and heard City Manager Martin praise City Clerk Dennise Dryden for running 77 elections and for decades of service; Martin also described a nonstandard vote-tallying process for early voting write-ins that delayed some totals.
City Clerk Dennise Dryden read a proclamation at the Nov. 13 meeting formally thanking election inspectors and receiving board members; the council adopted the proclamation unanimously.
City Manager Martin used his remarks earlier in the meeting to thank Dryden for her work running local elections. Martin said he hired Dennise in 1991 and that she has run 77 elections from start to finish, trained more than 100 election inspectors, and managed changes in election equipment and law over her tenure. He praised her election administration and thanked staff who supported the recent process.
Martin also explained that the city’s local tallying process differs for early voting and write-in ballots: early voting tallies from West Bloomfield and Oakland County are processed by those entities and write-in votes from early voting required manual tallying, which delayed some results (Martin said as of 3:30 p.m. the write-in results from early voting had not yet been received by the city). The council adopted a proclamation recognizing the election workers on a motion by Councilmember Zubrzycki, seconded by Councilmember Segal; the motion passed with all present voting yes.
What’s next: The proclamation is a formal expression of thanks and imposes no policy changes; the clerk and staff will continue administration and follow up on any outstanding vote tallies as required by election procedures.
