Monona council names Leader Independent as official newspaper, approves committee appointments

The Monona City Council voted to designate the Leader Independent as the city’s official newspaper and approved a slate of committee appointments at its April 15 organizational meeting.

A council member moved that the Leader Independent be named the city’s official newspaper; another member seconded the motion and the council approved the designation by voice vote. Meeting participants noted that the official newspaper receives the city’s public notices and that using the Leader Independent is less expensive than publishing in the State Journal, which the council had tried previously.

Following the newspaper designation, the council addressed committee appointments. The council approved citizen committee appointments (items 1–16) in a single motion and voice vote and then approved council appointments and chair/co-chair clarifications. The transcript notes a minor adjustment to committee assignments that had been circulated to council members in advance, including moving a position from one committee to another; the record identifies that committee reappointments were approved and that council members expressed appreciation for flexibility from appointees.

The record does not provide a roll-call tally for the voice votes. The council chair asked for and received unanimous voice approval for the newspaper designation and the listed appointments as recorded in the meeting minutes.

Votes recorded in the transcript: the designation of the Leader Independent as the official newspaper was approved by voice vote; citizen committee appointments (items 1–16) were approved by motion and voice vote; council committee appointments and related adjustments were subsequently approved with a voice vote.