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1 CITY OF ST. ANTHONY ELECTION RESULTS CANVASSING BOARD 3 SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA 4 5 November 6, 1997 6 6:30 P.M. 7 Council Chambers 8 I. CALL TO ORDER. 9 The meeting was called to order at 6:31 P.M. 10 II. ROLL CALL. 11 Councilmembers Present: Mayor Ranallo, Marks, Enrooth, Wagner and Faust. 12 Also present: Kim Moore-Sykes, Management Assistant; Connie Kroeplin, City 13 Clerk; Brian Thuesen, Councilmember-Elect; Brian Rice, Esq., Best & Flanagan Law 14 Firm. 15 III. APPOINT RECOUNT OFFICIAL. 16 Mayor Ranallo reported on the events since the November 4th City elections. He 17 indicated that on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 5, 1997, Councilmember 18 Wagner met with the City Clerk to request a recount of Tuesday's election results. The Mayor said that that request set into motion the process to recount the ballots 20 from the City election. Marge Christianson, Director of Hennepin County 21 Elections and Val Splichal, Supervisor of Elections for Ramsey County were 22 notified. Ms. Kroeplin notified the Council members, the City Attorney and the 23 City Council candidates from Tuesday's election that a recount of the ballots had 24 been requested. She secured the Council Chambers for tonight's special meeting to 25 appoint a recount official, canvassing board and to establish the date, time and 26 place for the recount. The Mayor also reported that the City Attorney was notified 27 of the recount and was requested by the Council to be in attendance at the recount 28 of the election ballots. 29 The Mayor made a suggestion that the City Clerk be appointed as the Recount 30 Official. Councilmember Marks asked about the ballot recounting process. The 31 Mayor invited the City Clerk to respond to Councilmember Marks' question. The 32 City Clerk reported that two tests need to be conducted as part of the recounting 33 process. She said the first test has to be done using 50 ballots that have been 34 marked and will be used as the test deck to insure that the tabulator is functioning 35 properly. Ms. Kroeplin indicated that she will suggest that the test be conducted for 36 all three precincts. She then indicated that the second test involves hand counting 37 the 50 test ballots for each of the precincts. Ms. Kroeplin said that once the 38 election judges are satisfied that the tabulator is functioning properly, they will then �9 open the sealed ballot boxes and observe the tabulation of the cast ballots.