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Acting Mayor Ziegler: council accepts Mayor Nordsving’s resignation and approves resolutions to fill mayoral and council vacancies
Summary
At its Jan. 8 meeting the Canton City Council accepted Mayor Nordsving’s resignation and approved resolutions to declare the vacancy and to fill the mayoral seat and the resultant council vacancy; motions were moved and seconded and each resolution carried.
The Canton City Council on Jan. 8 accepted the resignation of Mayor Nordsving and approved a series of resolutions to fill the resulting vacancies.
At the start of the meeting Acting Mayor Kristy Ziegler presided as the council moved on a set of motions addressing the mayoral vacancy. The council approved Resolution 2025-01 accepting Mayor Nordsving’s resignation and declaring a vacancy; the motion was moved by Jason Magnuson and seconded by Jen Dowling, and the motion carried. The council then approved Resolution 2025-02 to fill the Office of Mayor and Resolution 2025-03 to fill the resulting City Council vacancy; those motions were similarly moved and seconded and each motion carried.
The resolutions passed at the Jan. 8 meeting establish that the council will proceed with a process to fill the mayoral and council seats, but the meeting record does not specify the method or timeline for selecting successors. The council did not receive public comments on these items at the Jan. 8 meeting.
The council proceeded to routine reports and other business after the vacancy resolutions. The next formal actions at the meeting addressed project financing and routine administrative approvals.
