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Updated: Finalists named for key city post

Clerk-treasurer candidates to be interviewed at special meeting on Monday

Marshall Helmberger
Posted 9/26/19

Editor's Note: After presstime, a third candidate who had been a finalist for the clerk-treasurer position withdrew from consideration. We have removed the individual's name from our online version and e-edition. The withdrawal came too late to adjust in the print edition.

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Updated: Finalists named for key city post

Clerk-treasurer candidates to be interviewed at special meeting on Monday

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TOWER— City officials here released the names of the three finalists for Tower Clerk-Treasurer on Wednesday, with a second and most likely final interview set for Monday, Sept. 30 at a special meeting of the city council. That meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the interviews will be open to the public.

The three finalists include Victoria Ranua, who works in Shakopee but lives in Soudan, Michael Philip Schultz, of Tower, and a third individual who withdrew shortly after agreeing to a second interview.

Ranua comes with a varied background, including a bachelor of science and a master’s degree in plant biology from the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. She owned and ran her own bee and honey operation near Shakopee from 2013-2017 and spent eight years with the U.S. Navy Reserve. She was stationed in both Minneapolis and Brunswick, Maine, during her military career, which ended in 2010. Since 2005, she was worked for the Mdewakanton Sioux Community, initially as a realty and environmental assessment specialist and later as the tribe’s land manager. She and her family moved to Soudan a few years ago, but she has continued to work for the Mdewakanton since.

Schultz, who now lives in Tower, has an associate arts degree from Mesabi Community College and a bachelor of arts degree in political science from University of St. John’s in Collegeville. He has worked mostly in the field of debt collections, first with Financial Recovery Services in Edina and most recently, since June 2018, with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, working from the Ely collections office. He also worked four and a half years as a developmental training manager with National Recoveries, Inc., in Arden Hills.

Both Ranua and Schultz had confirmed their attendance at the Sept. 30 special meeting.