Finance & Personnel
Regular MeetingDarlington, WI · September 11, 2025
Minutes
FINANCE AND PERSONNEL COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Mike McDermott at 6:30 PM. Present at roll call were:
Dave Roelli, Steve Pickett, Kerry Black, and Mayor McDermott. Absent: None. Also present were: John
Sonsalla, Joe Boll, Jeff McCarthy, and Amy Johnson.
Motion by Pickett, seconded by Roelli, that the meeting notice and agenda were properly posted.
Motion carried.
Motion by Roelli, seconded by Black, to go into closed session in accordance with Section
19.85(1)(c) Wis.Stats., considering employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation data
of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises responsibility.; Roll
Call Vote: All Ayes. Motion carried.
Motion by Roelli, seconded by Pickett, to reconvene to regular session in accordance with Section
19.85 (2) Wis. Stats., to take possible action regarding employment, promotion, compensation, or
performance evaluation data of a public employee, and to adjourn the meeting. Roll Call Vote: All Ayes.
Motion carried.
After discussion and consideration, motion by Pickett, seconded by Roelli, to recommend to the
Council to accept Jeff McCarthy’s request to move back to the Waste Water Treatment Operator once a
replacement Director of Public Works is hired, and to continue paying him the Director’s salary until the
replacement is hired; pay would return to what the Waste Water Treatment Operator wage on the City of
Darlington Salary & Wage Schedule. All Ayes. Motion carried.
After discussion and consideration, motion by Roelli, seconded by Pickett, to recommend to the
Council the approval of reassigning Department of Public Works employee, Jim Polkinghorn, to the
Maintenance Department and the Parks and Recreation Department with his current wage remaining the
same, splitting his time between the two departments equally. All Ayes. Motion carried.
There being no further business for this meeting, motion by Roelli, seconded by Black, to adjourn
the meeting at 7:00 PM. Motion carried.
CITY OF DARLINGTON
Amy L. Johnson, Clerk-Treasurer
Agenda
AGENDA FOR A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FINANCE AND
PERSONNEL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF DARLINGTON TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY, THE 11th DAY
OF AUGUST, 2025, AT 6:30 PM; WHICH MEETING IS TO BE HELD IN
THE COUNCIL ROOM AT THE DARLINGTON MUNICIPAL BUILDING,
DARLINGTON, WISCONSIN
1. Call to order by presiding officer.
2. Roll call.
3. Motion that the meeting notice and agenda were properly posted.
4. Reports, comments, suggestions, and recommendations of citizens present.
5. Unfinished or deferred business from previous committee meetings.
6. New business. Including but not limited to the introduction of Ordinances and
Resolutions.
The Finance & Personnel Committee will go into closed session in accordance with Section
19.85 (1)(c), considering employment, promotion, compensation, or performance evaluation
data of any public employee over which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises
responsibility.
The Finance & Personnell Committee will reconvene to regular session in accordance with
Section 19.85 (2) Wis. Stats. to take possible action regarding employment, promotion,
compensation, or performance evaluation data of a public employee, and to adjourn the
meeting.
7. Adjourn the meeting.
Dated and posted at Darlington, Wisconsin, this 9th day of September 2025.
CITY OF DARLINGTON
By:
Amy L. Johnson, Clerk-Treasurer
*** Other City of Darlington Council members may be attending this meeting. However, only
Committee members will be taking action on these agenda items.
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