Rasmussen, Stene elected chair and vice-chair of Dunn County Board

By LeAnn R. Ralph

MENOMONIE  —  Steve Rasmussen of Boyceville and Gary Stene of Colfax have been elected as chair and vice-chair of the Dunn County Board.

The Dunn County Board held its organizational meeting April 19.

Rasmussen, who is starting his 27th year of serving on the Dunn County Board, was elected to his sixth term as chair of the county board.

Stene, who was elected as supervisor for District 5 in 2012 as a write-in candidate, was elected to his first term as vice-chair of the Dunn County Board.

A nomination ballot for chair distributed to county board members yielded 25 votes for Rasmussen, and one vote each for Charles Maves (Boyceville), Stene, James Tripp (Menomonie) and David Bartlett (Boyceville).

Maves, Stene, Tripp and Bartlett withdrew their nominations for chair of the county board.

A motion to cast a unanimous ballot for Rasmussen as chair of the Dunn County Board was approved by a voice vote.

A nominating ballot for vice-chair of the county board resulted in 11 votes for Bartlett, five votes for Stene, eight votes for Richard Creaser (Menomonie), who was the incumbent vice-chair, and one vote each for Jerome Prochnow (Menomonie), Tom Quinn (Downing), James Tripp (Menomonie) and Sheila Stori (Menomonie).

Bartlett, Prochnow, Quinn, Tripp and Stori withdrew their nominations.

On a ballot vote, Stene received 20 votes for vice-chair, and Creaser received nine votes.