Jackie Fritzke

Scandia Area Reporter

With Chairman Dennis Seefeldt and Board Supervisor Michael Harnetty running unopposed next month, it is likely that the makeup of the New Scandia Town Board will remain unchanged.

Because the town board elects the chairman, it is possible that Seefeldt could lose his position, but it is a task for the new board to determine.

ìI doubt that that will ever happen,î Town Clerk Dolores Peterson said. ìIt never has happened.î

Seefeldt was elected in 1997 and has been chairman since 1998. Harnetty has been a supervisor since 2004.

City status

But things will change later this year if an administrative law judge decides to allow the full township to incorporate as a city.

The five-member board of supervisors will be called a city council, a resident-elected mayor would take the place of a board-elected chair, and the council, not residents, will make all budgetary decisions, according to the townís web site.

The initial annexation hearing is scheduled to take place Tuesday, Feb. 14 and an evidentiary hearing will follow ìprobably a couple of months after that,î Town Attorney David Hebert said.

ìThere would be another election electing a new city council within approximately two months after the date of the incorporation,î he said.

At that time all of the boardís current supervisors will be required to file for office if they wish to be on the city council.

The New Scandia Town Board elections will take place from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 at the New Scandia Community/Senior Center, 14727 209th St.

For more information call the Scandia Town Office at 433-2274.

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