Pasco shakes up city council leadership, new city manager is on the job
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- The Pasco City Council appointed a new mayor and mayor pro-tem.
- Applications are open for the District 4 council position after Serrano’s exit.
- City Manager Harold Stewart started for the city.
Pasco ushered in a new wave of city leadership this week. The Pasco City Council voted Monday night to appoint David Milne as Pasco’s mayor until the end of the year.
Milne was selected mayor pro-tem in Jan. 2024. He’s been on the council for eight years and represents District 5.
District 2 Councilman Charles Grimm was appointed mayor pro-tem.
The mayoral post for the rapidly growing city of 80,000 is mostly ceremonial.
The council will have to go through the same process again and name someone to fill the new two-year term that begins in January 2026.
Voters will get to choose their own replacement in November 2027.
Their new city manager is also now officially on the job.
Serrano’s resignation
Last week, Pete Serrano resigned as mayor and was sworn in as the the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington.
Serrano served on the Pasco council since 2018 and was elected as mayor by his fellow council members in January 2024.
In addition, the council must appoint a new person to fill Serrano’s District 4 open position.
Serrano was running unopposed this year for another four years on the council, so his name will still appear on the November ballot.
The council has up to 90 days from Aug. 10 to name someone. Any registered voter who lives in Pasco’s District 4 is encouraged to apply.
Applications are open from now through Sept. 2 at www.pasco-wa.gov/council.
New city manager
Harold Stewart started as Pasco’s new city manager on Monday.
After a five-month search for a permanent city manager, the Pasco City Council voted to hire the former city manager of Minot, N.D.
Stewart was city manager there since December 2020. Minot is a city of about 48,000.
