Council reappoints convention-tourism member, names new city attorney and recesses to executive session

Marysville’s council approved two personnel appointments and recessed into an executive session for personnel matters.

Council reappointed Mackenzie Maddox to the Convention & Tourism Committee for a term running January 2025 through December 2027. Members noted the committee’s continued role after a '1 Marysville' unification and discussed its responsibility to recommend contracts for council consideration when appropriate.

Council then moved to appoint Luke Sunderland as city attorney for January–December 2025. The mayor described the position as structured "slightly differently" than in past arrangements and said the appointee is from an adjoining county. The motion to appoint Sunderland passed with at least one council member recorded as opposed in the transcript.

Later the council voted to recess into executive session to discuss specific personnel matters under the CASA (Kansas) exception cited in the record (75-4319(b)(1)). The council returned to open session and the mayor stated that no binding decisions were made in executive session. The meeting was then recessed to a continuation meeting on Monday, Dec. 30 at 5:30 p.m.