I would like to call the meeting of the Board of Elections for Thursday, May 8th to order. Roll call please. Yes, good afternoon. Uh Chair and Amarado. Present. Member of Bethany Holland here. Uh Member Kirk. Is absent today with notice. Great, do we have any public comment? We have noone that signed up to speak in person or submitted any written comment today. Thank you. Moving on to the approval of the minutes from
April 7th. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Now, second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. And now moving on to what are municipal primary preparations look like? Overall, I think we're in very good shape. Um I provided you with some of the some of the specific details. I won't I won't bore you with all the numbers but as a voter, close the voter registration, we have 908000 registered voters. We've had 108000 people in the county that
requested mail-in ballots. As of today, 31, 000 of those have been returned and We have 6100 confirmed poll workers as of today. We still have we still have some work to do there and some holes to fill. If I may jump on to that David to the point of the poll workers. We are still looking for poll workers in the Moon Township area. Hemsworth, Scott Township, and all along the fifty-one corridor, Baldwin, Jefferson, Pleasant Hills, and Whitehall. So, if anyone's interested, we are encouraging them
to contact our poll worker schedulers at three five zero four five zero zero. Option five. Also, I just want to remind everyone that we will be hosting satellite voting locations this weekend. We're going to have four open at North Park, South Park, CCAC, Homewood, and the County Office Building. So, we'll have staff available. You can apply for your mail-in ballot, receive your ballot on site, fill it out, take it home if you want, and you can turn it in there. We'll be there from nine to five, both Saturday and Sunday and then
starting next Friday, we're going to have ballot return sites open at the same nine locations that we did in the fall. And those hours on Friday and Monday will be 11 AM to 7 PM and Saturday and Sunday, 9 AM to 5PM. Great, thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Go right ahead. Um so, how many out of a hundred and eight 325 ballot applications were that were processed? How many of those have actually been mailed out already? So, I sent out a third batch to our
printer today. There may be only a few hundred that were processed today that haven't been mailed yet. So, otherwise, everything has already been mailed out. Awesome and then, next question was about I just wanted to clarify the hour. So, I know the weekend hours for this weekend for the satellite voting. Just wanted to clarify that was just this weekend for anybody that is listening after this weekend. All you will be able to do is return a ballot, correct? Yes. You are correct but over-the-counter voting will continue in the county
office building until the last day which is which is Tuesday, one week prior. Okay. So, one week prior and what are the hours for the over-the-county voting at the county office? Regular office hours. Okay. 830 to 430. Monday through Friday. Great. Thank you. Um could you tell us a little bit more about the student poll worker program that you all are running? Sure. So, this election, we have 62 students from throughout the county that are signed up to be student poll workers. We recognize we're competing with proms and graduations and spring sports. So,
I've grown to accept that over the last five years but right now, if you're 17 years of age or older and you are enrolled in a school within Allegheny County, you're eligible to be a student poll worker. You can either be paid for your day or you can receive civic engagement credits through your high school. And those students are paid for their training whether they take it in person or online so they're paid $20 to take the training. If they work election day and then on election day, they have the option to either work a half day or
a whole day. So, seven hours or 14 hours and they can be paid up to $150 for working that day as well. Um same rules apply if they're interested. They can contact the poll worker administration group at 3fiveoh forty-5 hundred. They can also go to Allegheny Votes. com get information on that. Basically, they just need the approval of their parents or their guardian and an administrator from their high school. Uh once they send that back to us, the staff will work with them to place them somewhere close to their
school or their home. Great. Thank you. What a wonderful program to get young people involved in the democratic process. Okay. Next on the agenda is new business. Do we have any new business? I do on. Okay motion to adjourn. So move. Second. Record time. That might be record