Westminster officials to offer city manager job to military vet

WESTMINSTER — At Westminster’s City Council meeting Monday evening, city officials are expected to offer the city manager position, the municipal government’s top unelected position, to Mark Freitag, a U.S. Army veteran and Janeville, Wisconsin’s current city manager. 

Freitag will succeed former Westminster city manager Donald Tripp, who resigned his position in 2021. 

At the time of his departure, the city government was engulfed in turmoil related to a “workplace review that found policy violations” within the Westminster Police Department, according to a Denver Post report from the time. Westminster Police Chief Tim Carlson retired one day before Tripp’s resignation.

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