Sac City council approves mayoral appointments, boards, finance report in brief Jan. 2 special session

The Sac City Council met in a special session at 7:00 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2026, in Council Chambers at the Sac City Municipal Building and approved a series of mayoral appointments, reappointments to city boards and committees, the 2025 street finance report and designation of city depositories. Mayor Scott Bundt presided; council members Kayla Shull, Tom Lownik, Larry Mahler and Bob Murley were present. Teresa Bruening, named Mayor Pro Tem in the meeting, was recorded as absent.

The meeting opened with an oath of office. Tom Lownik, Bob Murley and Jamie Wells recited the Oath of Office and were sworn in by Mayor Bundt; Jamie Wells is identified in the record as City Clerk.

During a single business block, the council voted on a series of resolutions introduced and moved by council members. Resolution No. 2026-01, presented by Tom Lownik and moved by Larry Mahler with a second from Kayla Shull, reaffirmed or appointed the City Administrator, City Clerk, City Attorney, Director of Public Works, and members of the Planning and Zoning Commission, Arts Council and Airport Commission. The motion carried on a roll call vote with Murley, Shull, Lownik and Mahler recorded as voting aye; Bruening was absent.

Councillors then approved the 2025 street finance report on a motion from Bob Murley, seconded by Larry Mahler; the roll call again recorded Shull, Lownik, Mahler and Murley as ayes with Bruening absent.

The council next approved Resolution No. 2026-02, providing consent to the mayor’s appointments or continuations for the Chief of Police, Library Board of Trustees, Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Committee, Zoning Board of Adjustment and Historic Preservation; the motion was made by Bob Murley and seconded by Larry Mahler and passed by the same recorded vote of all members present.

Resolution No. 2026-03, consenting to Mayor Bundt’s Mayor Pro Tem appointment (Teresa Bruening), was introduced by Tom Lownik and approved on a motion by Bob Murley, seconded by Kayla Shull; the council’s recorded votes were unanimous among those present.

The council approved Resolution No. 2026-04 (appointing Sac City Fire Department officers) on a motion by Tom Lownik, seconded by Larry Mahler; Resolution No. 2026-05 (appointing housing committee members) on a motion by Larry Mahler, seconded by Kayla Shull; and Resolution No. 2026-06 (naming depositories for the City of Sac City, Iowa) on a motion by Bob Murley, seconded by Tom Lownik. Each measure passed on roll call with the four members present voting aye and Bruening absent.

Resolution No. 2026-07, appointing 28E Fire Board council members, was moved by Tom Lownik, seconded by Larry Mahler, and approved by the same recorded vote pattern. The council also voted to reappoint Angie Fischer and Frank Richardson to the Community Center board on a motion by Bob Murley, seconded by Larry Mahler; the four present members voted aye and Bruening was absent.

A final motion by Bob Murley, seconded by Larry Mahler, to adjourn carried on a unanimous recorded vote among present members. The meeting adjourned at 7:12 a.m.

The session’s official minutes list the resolutions by number and describe the appointments; no public comment or extended debate was recorded in the minutes.