Kay LaCoe
ND · Chair, Burleigh County Missouri Valley Complex Committee
Communications strategist and small business owner who chairs Burleigh County's Missouri Valley Complex Committee and served on its Home Rule Charter Committee. Her priorities are core services like public safety and roads, and a prompt review of the county's Comprehensive Plan.
Where Kay LaCoe stands, based on their records
Supports
Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record), Public Infrastructure (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
Organized local groups on Dec. 4, 2016, to support police and businesses during the Dakota Access pipeline protests. The plan included volunteers standing outside businesses and supplies for officers.
December 4, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 1 support
Presented plans for the county's Missouri Valley Complex on April 7, 2025, as chair of its committee, including a proposed equestrian and agriculture center. The County Commission approved moving the center plan forward 3-2.
April 7, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: burleigh.gov
Track record — General
General · 7 records
Opposed a moratorium or outright ban on off-highway vehicle ditch riding at a March 16, 2026, county hearing, even though she said riders had damaged her own property.
March 16, 2026
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Spoke in favor of a county ordinance to curb off-highway vehicle riding in road ditches at an Aug. 21, 2023, hearing. She said many landowners were fed up with riders damaging property.
August 21, 2023
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Served on the Burleigh County Home Rule Charter committee that began meeting on Aug. 9, 2023. The committee drafted the 1% county sales tax measure that went to voters.
August 9, 2023
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Was named vice president of marketing and communications at the Lignite Energy Council, a coal industry group, in December 2021. She had worked there since 2008.
December 11, 2021
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Ran a 2017 Lignite Energy Council seminar that showed teachers from several states how the coal industry works, as its membership marketing director.
June 14, 2017
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Testified to a legislative committee in January 2017 for a bill giving rural residents under a city's zoning control a voice in that city's decisions. She called their situation taxation without representation.
January 5, 2017
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Asked the Lincoln City Council in June 2016 how a large dirt-moving project near her home went ahead without permits. She said it could make flooding worse on her property.
June 9, 2016
Source: bismarcktribune.com
Past race Kay LaCoe ran in:
- County Commissioner · November 3, 2026 · Burleigh County, North Dakota