During a special meeting late yesterday afternoon which lasted 3 minutes, the Litchfield City Council voted in favor of a resolution accepting the final results of last Tuesday’s election. Mayor Ron Dingmann, Council Member-at-Large Malinda Larson, Ward 3 Council Member Betty Allen and Ward 4 Council Member John Carlson were in attendance. Ward 1 Council member Eric Mathwig was absent.
Malinda Larson won the mayoral election. Mike Niedzielski won the Ward 1 Council seat, Martin Allen won the Ward 3 Council seat, and Sara Miller won the Ward 5 Council seat. The Council also passed resolutions declaring vacancies in the Ward 2 and Ward 5 seats after Darlene Kotelnicki and Bob Powers resigned from those seats on November 4th.
Powers had less than 2 months left in his term for Ward 5, and Kotelnicki’s term for Ward 2 would have run through 2028. Both of them had run for Mayor and lost to Larson. The Council will discuss the process for filling those vacancies during the regular meeting on November 16th.
