{"id":6754,"date":"2025-08-27T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:16:10","slug":"notice-rtc-seeking-general-election-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/notice-rtc-seeking-general-election-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice: RTC Seeking General Election Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council is seeking individuals interested in serving as a member of the General Election Board, the District I Election Board (Nett Lake), and the District II Election Board (Vermilion), Urban-Duluth Election Board, and Urban-Minneapolis Election Board for the upcoming Special Tribal Election (DI Vacancy). Must sign up between\u00a0<b>August 27, 2025 \u2013 September 10, 2025.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><i>The Primary Election will be held on October 28, 2025.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><i>The General Election will be held on December 29, 2025 (Monday).<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><u>The rate of pay will be:<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">General Election Board Chair: $22.00 per hour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">General Election Board Members: $18.00 per hour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">District I, District II, and Urban Offices Election Boards:\u00a0 $14.00 per hour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">All election board members who work on election day will receive a $250 bonus for each election day worked, which will be paid at the end of the election.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>General Election Board Members<\/u> will work 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Monday \u2013 Friday (subject to change) and 7:00 am to approximately midnight on Election Day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>District I, District II and Urban Election Board Members<\/u>\u00a0will work 7:00 am to approximately midnight on Election Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>If you are interested, please contact:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>Simona Benner, Human Resources Director<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>Tribal Office Phone: (218) 757-3261, ext. 1161<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>slbenner@boisforte-nsn.gov<ins cite=\"mailto:Miranda%20Lilya\" datetime=\"2024-01-09T08:58\"><\/ins><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>8:00 am to 4:30 pm<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Those that are appointed will be subject to a pre-employment drug and alcohol test.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>MCT Election Ordinance<\/u>\u00a0(As Amended on 12\/11\/2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Section 1.7E. No candidate for election, no member of a Candidate\u2019s immediate family, not any member of the Band governing body will be appointed to serve on any election board or as an Election Contest Judge or Alternate Election Contest Judge. The term \u201cimmediate family\u201d as used herein will be determined by the Band governing body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>Bois Forte Tribal Government Personnel Policy Manual<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Section 303. \u201c<b>Immediate Family<\/b>\u201d as defined by the Tribal Council is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Spouse \u2013 Husband\/Wife\/Significant Other<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Parent (Mother\/Father) \u2013 Biological\/Adoptive\/Step\/Loco Parentis*\/In-Laws<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Child (Daughter\/Son) \u2013 Biological\/Adoptive\/Foster\/Step\/Legal Ward<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Brother\/Sister \u2013 Biological\/Adoptive\/Step\/Half\/In-Laws<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Grand\/Great \u2013 Parent\/Child\/Step<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*A person who is in the position or place of a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council is seeking individuals interested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-special-election"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boisforte.com\/news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}