(KMZA)--The Seneca City Council has approved appointments to the city’s new Parks and Recreation Board. 

Acting on the recommendation of Mayor Joe Mitchell, the council voted last Wednesday to appoint Joe Schmelzle, Mark Baker, Jessica Hermesch, Mitchell Heiman, Kylie Bergstrom, Alan Meyer, and Paige Niehues to the advisory board. 

In other city business, the council approved the hiring of Brooks Stallbaumer as manager of the Seneca Aquatic Center for 2026, at a wage of seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents an hour. 

The council also accepted the resignation of Jacob Kennedy from his position as lineman/journeyman in the city’s Electrical Department.  

Finally, on the recommendation of City Superintendent Brian Rusche, the council approved a sludge maintenance plan for the city’s lift stations, with a start-up cost of twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars and an estimated annual cost of twenty thousand dollars.