Petitions Deadline Tuesday (01.17) for Floyd County Supervisor Special Election

The deadline to file for a petition to force a special election for the District 3 seat on the Floyd County Board of Supervisor is Tuesday (01.17).

On January 3rd, Rudd farmer Jim Jorgenson was appointed to fill the post by a state-code-mandated-committee of County Auditor Gloria Carr, County Recorder Amy Assink, and County Treasurer Jessie Holm. The appointment became necessary when Jeff Hawbaker, who won the November 8th election, declined the nomination 10 days later because he could not devote the time needed to serve.

Jake Paulus of Floyd, a retired Army veteran now a maintenance technician at IMT in Garner, also applied for the appointment. Jorgenson was approved on a 2-0 vote with Carr and Holm voting in favor and Assink recusing herself from the vote because Jorgenson is her brother-in-law.

Still, any eligible elector of District 3 could file a petition requiring that the vacancy be filled by special election. The petition must be filed within 14 days of the appointment.  The deadline would’ve been Monday (01.16), but because it falls on the Martin Luther King holiday, the deadline has been pushed to Tuesday (01.17).