Board of Supervisors adopts canvass of Nov. 4 shared‑district election results

The Board of Supervisors convened a special session on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, to canvass the Nov. 4 election results for shared districts including the West Fork School District and North Iowa Area Community College. The auditor's office presented county abstracts from partner counties and the board compared those abstracts to its report.

The auditor described the canvass procedure and read abstracts county by county. For the West Fork School District at-large race, the record shows one county subtotal of Ashley Wilkinson 183 and Benjamin Neil 174 (three write-ins) for a county subtotal of 360; the board reported that county subtotals matched the abstracts provided by other counties. For North Iowa Area Community College District 1, the auditor read county subtotals including a Hancock County subtotal showing David Steffins Jr. with 111 votes (112 including a write-in) and a Winnebago County subtotal reported as 1,124 votes and 12 write-ins for 1,136 — the board confirmed these figures matched the abstracts.

After completing the county-by-county comparison across the shared districts and confirming that the totals shown in the abstracts matched the board’s report, a motion and second were offered to approve the canvass via a resolution recorded in the minutes as “Resolution 2025 number 677” (the record also at one point refers to “resolution number 67”; that inconsistency is noted in the meeting record). The board adopted the resolution by voice vote; the transcript records the presiding officer saying the resolution "passes and is adopted," but it does not record a roll-call or named vote tally.

The auditor asked for further correspondence or announcements; none were offered. A motion to adjourn was made and seconded, and the board adjourned the special session at approximately 2:11 p.m.

What happened: the board verified county abstracts for multiple seats in the West Fork School District and North Iowa Area Community College, confirmed the submitted county totals matched the abstracts, and adopted a resolution to formally accept the canvass. The record contains multiple county subtotals read aloud by staff and board members and confirms that the abstracts matched across counties.

Note on the record: the transcript contains several inconsistent spellings and short-form names (for example, "Wnebago" in one segment and multiple variant spellings of candidate names). This article uses normalized spellings where the record was ambiguous and notes places where the meeting record itself is inconsistent. Exact roll‑call counts for the canvass adoption are not provided in the transcript.