DC Board appoints Mercil as county clerk
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Andrew Mercil
By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — The Dunn County Board has appointed Andrew Mercil as the county clerk to fill the unexpired term of Julie Wathke, who resigned from the position in April.
The county’s Committee on Administration conducted six hours of interviews with clerk candidates, said Paul Miller, county manager, at the Dunn County Board’s May 19 meeting.
“We think we have a very good candidate,” he said.
The committee conducted four extensive interviews with four very good candidates, said Vaughn Hedlund, county board supervisor from Boyceville and chair of the Committee on Administration.
The committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Dunn County Board appoint Andrew Mercil as the county clerk, he said.
Dunn County was in the position of having both the county clerk and the county treasurer, Doris Meyer, resign at nearly the same time. The resignations were not in any way related.
Wathke’s last day as county clerk was April 15.
The Dunn County Board appointed A. Sifia Jevne of Menomonie as the county treasurer at the April meeting.
Jevne began her duties as treasurer on May 3.
According to Mercil’s Linked-in profile online, he has worked as the degree audit coordinator at UW-Stout since August of 2010.
The profile also states that he is the owner of the Duke And Dagger in Menomonie, that he has served as the interim executive director of the Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts, and that he has been a member of the Mabel Tainter Board since 2011. He has served on the Menomonie City Council as well.
Mercil earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and Public Administration from UW-La Crosse and a Master of Public Administration in Municipal Management from UW-Milwaukee.
“I am deeply honored to have been chosen by the Dunn County Board of Supervisors as the new Dunn County Clerk,” Mercil said.
“I am looking forward to joining the top notch team of employees at Dunn County, am excited to work with the 30 municipalities throughout the county, and to help the county administration and Board of Supervisors administer and run the county,” he said.
“One of the things I love about local government is that it is where the decisions have the most impact on people’s daily lives and where change is tangible because it’s the roads we all use, the entities that protect people, and the services that help our community. I am thrilled to have been chosen for this job and very much looking forward to hitting the ground running when I start,” Mercil said.
Mercil officially began his duties as county clerk May 24.
Mercil and Jevne will serve the remainder of the terms for clerk and treasurer until the terms expire January 6, 2025.
If the appointed treasurer and clerk choose to run for their positions, Mercil and Jevne will be on the ballot in the November of 2024 election.
Wathke, of Boyceville, was appointed county clerk in October of 2013 to fill the remainder of the term left by the death earlier in the year of Marilyn Hoyt and was then first elected to the position in 2016.
Prior to becoming the county clerk, Wathke served as the clerk and then the clerk-treasurer in the Town of Sherman.
Meyer, of Colfax, was appointed as county treasurer in September of 2017 to fill the unexpired term of Dunn County Treasurer Megan Mittlestadt, who resigned in July of that year.
