Zack Vruwink
RHINELANDER, WI (WSAU-WXPR) – Rhinelander’s interim city administrator, Zach Vruwink, had accepted the job full-time.
The Rhinelander City Council unanimously approved Vruwink’s contract in special session on Wednesday.
Earlier this week, Mayor Chris Frederickson announced the city had successfully negotiated an employment agreement with Vruwink.
Vruwink was hired as a consultant in May 2020 to help with administrative duties after former administrator Daniel Guild was fired. Guild was accused of withholding information that was part of a freedom of information request.
Vruwink’s salary, $111,500 a year, is more than past city administrators. Rhinelander human resources consultant Doreen St. Onge said that is still less than what the city budgeted for the position, $133,000. “We did do comps for city administrators for other municipalities and the range I actually put into my monthly HR report for council, it was between $97,000 base up to a $115,000 base for comparable.”
Vruwink, a former mayor of Wisconsin Rapids who lost his bid for re-election, was Rhinelander’s top candidate for City Administrator, begins his new duties immediately. The city hasn’t announced how many people applied for the job.
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