by Dennis Dalman
editor@thenewsleaders.com
State Rep. Tim O’Driscoll (R-Sartell) has been appointed to serve as chair of the House Government Operations and Elections Policy Committee for the Minnesota Legislature.
He will serve for the 2017-18 legislative session.
State House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) announced the appointment in late November.
“I’m honored to accept the appointment as chair to this committee and know its subject matter of this committee well,” O’Driscoll said after his appointment.
The House Government Operations and Elections Policy Committee has policy jurisdiction over state and local government structure and policy matters, as well as election-policy matters over various election laws and election policy in the state.
O’Driscoll, a former Sartell mayor and city-council member, was re-elected Nov. 8 for the fourth consecutive time to represent State Legislative District 13B in the legislature.
He has served on the Government Operations and Elections Policy Committee since he was first elected to the House in 2011. Last year, O’Driscoll served as Pro-Tem of the House.
A graduate of Sartell High School, O’Driscoll earned a bachelor-of-science degree in business education from St. Cloud State University. The 52-year-old has worked in the field of real estate and is a corporate trainer for the Kaplan Professional Schools.
He served as Sartell mayor from 2007-11, the year he was first elected to the Minnesota House.
From 1993-95 and again from 2002-06, he was a member of the Sartell City Council. In addition, he served as president of the Sartell Economic Development Authority, secretary and executive board member of the St. Cloud Area Planning Organization and as chair of the St. Cloud Joint Planning District.
Years before his political career, O’Driscoll was a founding member of Sartell SummerFest, the city’s ever-popular annual summer festival.
