HURON – The Beadle County commissioners carried out the county’s election canvass on Thursday morning, with less than five total ballots discrepancy between the machine number reported and the hand-counted number of ballots across all the precincts in the county.

The seventh precinct was drawn and judicial review and Amendment G were both selected at random by commissioners for the upcoming post-election audit, to be executed in mid-November.

Highway Superintendent Jason Fritzsche brought a bid for an upcoming bridge project and a final payment request for the box culvert project near Lake Byron. These were both approved.

Travel requests submitted by States’ Attorney Alyssa Horn were approved.

Horn also met with the commission to discuss the need for an additional staff member within her office. She explained that without a deputy in her office, additional work was placed on the current staff, and having someone purely to assist with those needs would help her office’s workflow.

After nearly an hour-long executive session to discuss the details, the commission reconvened to put forth a motion to create a juvenile/magistrate/witness coordinator position within the States’ Attorney office. The position will be listed internally until Nov. 30, and potentially opened to the public after that point. Start day will depend on a new staff member, but Horn stated that she expected it would likely be after Jan. 1.

The commission will meet next on November 26 at 9 a.m. in the commission room in the courthouse.