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Wausau council appoints Aaron Greiner to fill District 5 seat after two ballots
Summary
After interviewing three candidates and conducting two rounds of secret ballots, the Wausau Common Council appointed Aaron Greiner to serve the remainder of the District 5 aldermanic term. Council rejected a request to play a city-produced candidate video and adopted a successive-elimination voting procedure before tallying ballots.
The Wausau Common Council on Oct. 28 appointed Aaron Greiner to fill the vacant District 5 aldermanic seat, swearing him in to serve through April 21, 2026.
Council members interviewed three applicants — Aaron Greiner, James Wodinsky and Steven Schmidt — after hearing public comments from residents who asked the council to consider the preference of District 5 neighbors. The council first voted 9-1 to adopt a successive-elimination voting procedure that would drop the lowest vote-getter and revote among the remaining candidates.…
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