Dan Foust, who as St. Charles County Council chairman helped re-create the county’s old Municipal League, has been picked as its executive director.
Foust, a Republican defeated in November for re-election to his council seat, will work parttime for a token $1-a-year salary and will be reimbursed for any league-related expenses.
“I don’t have any pre-conceived ideas,” said Foust, who also is a former member of the St. Charles City Council and ran twice for mayor of St. Charles.
He said he’d work in a “nonpartisan way” to advance issues of common interest to the county and its municipalities.
League board members decided this week by consensus to create the post of executive director and to tap Foust.
Joe Brazil, a Defiance Republican who succeeded Foust as County Council chairman earlier this year, had questioned why an executive director was needed but said he had no objections to Foust.