As local elections near this year, Bell County is once again searching for a new elections administrator.
At their weekly meeting Tuesday, Commissioners unanimously approved an agreement with SGR Executive Recruitment Services to search for a new elections administrator for the county. The agreement comes as the current administrator Matthew Dutton told officials of his wish to return to his former job as the assistant administrator.
Commissioners set an amount not to exceed $24,900 for the organizationâs services.
County Judge David Blackburn said that the Bell County Elections Commission, which chooses the elections administrator, decided to go with a professional company for the search this time. He said the use of this firm is different from the normal procedure of posting the job that the county normally does.