FAIRBAULT, MINN. — Microphone in hand, Denise Anderson paced from one end of a large conference room to the other, narrating as her team fed ballots into Rice County's vote-counting machines. Public voting equipment tests are one of the routine, usually sparsely attended duties for local government officials ahead of any election, but on a recent Tuesday morning, dozens of people filed into .
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Just in time for the new year, Rice Countyâs Board of Commissioners is launching two new subcommittees with an eye toward increasing environmental sustainability and offering opportunities for those from traditionally marginalized communities.
The new initiative, spearheaded by Commissioners Galen Malecha and Steve Underdahl is likely to be approved at next weekâs meeting, breezed through discussion with scant opposition. Subcommittees will hold their first meetings in 2021.
For now, both committees will consist of Malecha, Underdahl and County Administrator Sara Folsted, with a broad purview and agenda yet to be defined. Mainly, they will function to find sound ideas and bring them back to the broader board for consideration.
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