Minutes

1 SPECIAL COMMON COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2025 AT 5PM 1. Call to order/Roll Call – Roll Call at 5:00pm. Alderpersons Boeck, Hill, Przybyl & Sorenson were in attendance. Nigbor and Stobbe were excused. 2. Seat Virtual Attendees (if necessary) - None 3. General Public Comments. Registration card required (located at podium in Council Chambers). Comments will be limited to 3 minutes per registrant. - None 4. Review of hiring process for Senior Center and Recreation Facilities Director position. RECOMMENDATION: Confirm City Administrator’s recommendation, which arises following her receipt of input from the Committee on Aging representative, to hire a Senior Center and Recreation Facilities Director. Jessi Balcom talked about the outdated hiring process for positions. Discussion was held on how and who should be involved in interviews moving forward. Jessi recommended a representative from another department or committee, HR, staff representative and Jessi. There are so many titles and positions that are obsolete, this will be a project for one of the deputy clerks to clean up. 5. Motion to go into closed session pursuant to Wis. Stats. 19.85 (1) (c) Considering employment, promotion, compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. (Consider employment of the Senior Center and Recreation Facilities Director). Przybyl made a motion to go into closed session at 5:25pm with a second by Boeck. Voice vote carried. Boeck made a motion to seat Debra Thiel, Deputy Clerk Treasurer, seconded by Hall. Voice vote carried. Jessi Balcom recommended a candidate for the position of Senior Center and Recreation Facilities Director. There were two very strong candidates for this position and either one would do a great job, however one of them stood out just a bit more. 6. Reconvene into open session and take appropriate action as a result of closed session discussion. Przybyl made a motion to go into open session at 5:40pm with a second by Hill. Voice vote carried. Przybyl made a motion to accept the recommendation from Jessi for the Senior Center and Recreation Facilities Director position with a second by Hill. Voice vote carried. 7. Old Business (To be used to request items of old business be put on a future agenda for further discussion or action; or used to make a motion for reconsideration of an item from the current meeting or immediately previous meeting; or to make a motion to take items off the table which were laid on the table only during the current meeting.) - None 8. New Business (To be used to request items of new business be put on a future agenda) - None 9. Adjourn. – Przybyl made a motion to adjourn at 5:41pm with a second by Boeck. Voice vote carried. Respectfully submitted by Debra Thiel, Deputy Clerk Treasurer