The Sheboygan Common Council will hold a special meeting at around 5:15 p.m. on Monday to consider a resolution by Alderpersons Felde and Filicky-Peneski terminating Todd Wolf as City Administrator. Accounts vary as to the particulars of whatever issue, or issues, prompted the move, but an attorney was hired by the City to investigate the matter, and following the report of those results to the city, the Third Special Common Council Meeting was set to decide Wolf’s fate.
A flurry of requests to speak before the council was received at City Hall before close of business on Friday, but the agenda allows only a “Limit of five people having five minutes each with comments limited to items on this agenda.” Speaker number-four will be former Mayor Mike Vandersteen, who spoke with WHBL on Sunday.
As Vandersteen understands it, one issue revolves around Wolf’s refusal to add money for what some say was a Diversity and Inclusion initiative, a move which Vandersteen called “…the prudent thing to do.” He continued, “You should have a real program that you’re going to approve and understand it, and they weren’t able to provide any of that information. From what I heard from the news reports is that they just demanded that this should happen and include it in the budget.”
Vandersteen believes that the investigation couldn’t come up with a “fireable offense”, and that Wolf’s dismissal would be “without cause”; and he said that “…it’s going to cost the city over $200,000 for them to do that. Administrator Wolf – I’ve talked to him – he just wants to have his job back and continue to do the good things that he has done in the past for the City and the future.” Vandersteen said he hopes to convince the council that leadership may have misled them.
As for current Mayor Ryan Sorenson, he declined a Friday evening request for a telephone interview any earlier than Monday, but later returned a request for a statement via text. Mayor Sorenson responded with
“There were many accusations made, and those accusations were investigated by professionals. This resolution is the direction the council decided to move forward with following the investigation. Since this is a personnel issue I can’t speak more on it at this time.
More information may become available when appropriate. “
Monday’s Special Common Council Meeting will be live streamed on the City’s Charter Spectrum (990) and U-Verse (99) Channels as well as on www.wscssheboygan.com/vod
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