Kronenwetter Village Hall. MWC file photo.
KRONENWETTER, WI (WSAU) – The village of Kronenwetter will soon have a new village administrator.
According to village president Chris Voll, Peter Kampfer has accepted the position and will start in early June, with a specific date to be announced later. While speaking about the need to plan for the future of the village, Voll said, “We were just doing the immediate things that needed to get done, but there were no offensive tactics, and it was just defense, so it was doing the things that needed to get done, but there wasn’t any vision to do things toward the future.”
Voll also spoke about the importance of the position, saying, “The administrator is one of the key figureheads because they are the liaison between the village board and the village staff, and when you lose that key individual, it can leave people in a quandary of who to talk to or where to go, and you get people asking questions about whether they should be talking to this person about this or somebody else?”
Kampfer, a Wausau native, was initially named to the position in September 2023 but delayed his start date on two different occasions, which eventually led to the two sides parting ways after conversations between Kampfer and the village fell apart due to personal reasons.
A handful of people have held the interim administrator position since Richard Downey’s departure, including Police Chief Terry McHugh, former Plover Administrator Dan Mahoney, and Duane Gau.
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