Kiel City Council approves police hire, adopts minor‑overpayment rule and OKs utility engineering agreement

The Kiel City Council met to consider a slate of routine municipal actions and personnel matters, approving a contingent hire for the police department, adopting a new municipal code provision for handling small billing overages, and authorizing several contracts and purchases.

The council voted to hire Nicholas Seo as a police officer for the Kiel Police Department contingent on ‘‘successful completion of all preemployment requirements including investigation,’’ as recorded in the meeting minutes. The motion to hire was moved by a councilmember recorded as Speaker 5 and seconded by Broker; the roll call recorded unanimous support and the record states, "Motion carries 9 0." The start date will be set after completion of pre‑employment steps, per staff remarks in the record.

Council members approved Forrester Engineering’s master services agreement for the Kiel Electric Utility. City staff explained the agreement will allow the city to issue separate task orders for licensed engineering work (design, small projects and related services) with dollar amounts and schedules established per task order. Council discussed existing purchase‑order authority limits and directed staff that individual task orders will reflect anticipated dollar amounts. The motion to approve the master agreement passed on a recorded vote (recorded in the minutes as "Motion carries 5 0").

The council adopted Ordinance 6‑35 (recorded in the transcript as ordinance 635), which creates municipal code section 3.11 to govern the handling of minor overpayments and underpayments. The ordinance, described in the packet and discussed at the Committee of the Whole, directs that very small overpayments will be retained by the city unless a written request for refund is submitted; the roll call showed the motion carried (recorded "Motion carries 6 0").

Other routine approvals included the purchase of a Skag lawnmower for cemetery operations from Miller Equipment at $6,699 (approved by roll call, recorded "Motion carries 5 0"), authorization for staff to attend the Wisconsin County/City Management Association training conference in Oshkosh in February, and approval of receipts, disbursements and bills (each approved by roll call with affirmative votes as recorded).

Votes at a glance
• Hire of police officer (Nicholas Seo) — motion approved; roll call recorded unanimous approval ("Motion carries 9 0").
• Forrester Engineering master agreement (electric utility) — approved; roll call recorded ("Motion carries 5 0").
• Ordinance 6‑35 / municipal code §3.11 (minor overpayments) — adopted; roll call recorded ("Motion carries 6 0").
• Cemetery mower purchase (Skag) — approved; purchase price recorded $6,699; roll call recorded ("Motion carries 5 0").
• Staff travel to WCMA conference (Oshkosh) — authorized; motion carried.
• Receipts, disbursements, and bills — approved; motions carried by roll call.

The council closed the meeting with a motion to adjourn after the listed business was concluded. The minutes recorded no dissents on the listed votes. The meeting record shows the public hearing on ordinance 13.14 (sewer service charges) was opened for comment and that the ordinance language was in the council packet for further consideration at a later date.