Municipal

WILLMAR -- The Labor Committee will recommend the Municipal Utilities Commission approve the employment contract with Wesley Hompe as general manager. The contract will be considered when the commission meets at 11:45 a.m. Monday in the auditorium at the utilities building, 700 Litchfield...

WILLMAR -- Interviews will be held Wednesday with semifinalists for the Willmar Municipal Utilities general manager position. After they have met with each of the candidates, members of the Utilities Commission plan to winnow the field to two or three finalists. The hope is to have...

WILLMAR -- Interviews will be held Wednesday with semifinalists for the Willmar Municipal Utilities general manager position. After they've met with each of the candidates, members of the Utilities Commission plan to winnow the field to two or three finalists. The hope is to have...

WILLMAR -- The Willmar Municipal Utilities Commission on Monday approved the general manager's job description as proposed by consultant Springsted Inc. of St. Paul. But the commission held off accepting a Springsted proposal to conduct and recruit for the general manager position...

WILLMAR -- The Willmar Municipal Utilities Commission voted Monday to take steps toward hiring a new general manager. The commission approved a motion offered by President Dave Baker that asks governmental consultant Springsted Inc. of St.

As a concerned citizen attending (the Feb. 27) Municipal Utilities Commission meeting, I was sorry to learn how a less than open, perhaps arrogant-tending style of management (with "lapses" in communication to staff and commissioners) by the general manager, over time, deteriorated...