(Spirit Lake)– Four Dickinson county residents have been appointed to the Extension Council Nominating Committee.
Committee members selected to nominate extension council candidates for the 2010 election are Curt Smith and Mark Ingwersen…both of Spirit Lake; Diane Duis of Lake Park and Donna Gould of Milford.
The committee is charged with nominating canidates for the five vacancies on the council before August 2nd. All voters in the county will be eligible to cast ballots for the nominees in the November 2nd, 2010 General Election. Successful candidates will serve four-year terms beginning in January, 2011.
Candidates nominated by the committee must submit petitions containing the names of 25 qualified voters to the county election commissioner by 5:00 p.m. August 25th. Individuals may also petition to have their names placed on the ballot through a self-nominating process by submitting petitions with 25 names to the election commissioner. Petition forms are available from the election commissioner at the Auditor’s Office in the Dickinson county courthouse and at the Dickinson County Extension Office in Spirit Lake.
By law the nominating committee must include two women and two men and cannot include any current member of the council. The committee is required to take county geography into consideration when nominating candidates.
