McLeod County board selects Doug Krueger as chair, Nathan Schmaltz as vice chair after Nagel resignation
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Summary
Following Commissioner Joe Nagel’s resignation as chair, the McLeod County Board unanimously elected Commissioner Doug Krueger as chair and Commissioner Nathan Schmaltz as vice chair after re-running a procedural vote to correct an earlier missing second.
The McLeod County Board of Commissioners elected Commissioner Doug Krueger as board chair and Commissioner Nathan Schmaltz as vice chair during its meeting after the board acknowledged the resignation of Commissioner Joe Nagel. Administrator announced the vacancy, and Krueger and Schmaltz were nominated and approved by the board.
The chair nomination began after the administrator told the board about Commissioner Nagel’s resignation and requested nominations. "Due to the resignation of our commissioner, Joe Nagel, today, being chair of the county board, I would like to add nomination of county board chair and county board vice chair to the beginning of the meeting agenda," the administrator said. Commissioner Doug Krueger was nominated and members moved to cast a unanimous ballot. When a board member pointed out that the first vote lacked a second, the board re-ran the vote and re-cast a unanimous ballot to confirm the chair and vice chair.
The re-vote took place after a brief procedural pause. The board then proceeded to the rest of the agenda. There was no recorded roll-call tally in the public record; the clerk announced the motion carried by voice vote.
The nomination and re-vote were procedural and limited to internal leadership assignments; no other policy or budget decisions were tied to the leadership change. The board moved immediately into regular business following the confirmation.
