You have a great council group right now and an excellent new city clerk. It would have been fun to continue to work with them.”

Steve Abrahamson

TOWER— A major business opportunity outside the area has prompted Steve Abrahamson to resign from the city council here. Abrahamson, a broker, said he recently was selected for a major appraisal project in a neighboring county and that the work would be too involved for him to continue in his current position with the city. Abrahamson previously served as mayor in Tower for nearly four terms.
“I did a similar project in 2014 when I was still mayor and it was one of the most miserable years of my life,” he said.
The timing of the announcement was unfortunate, he said, given that it came less than a week after he had clashed briefly with Mayor Orlyn Kringstad at a council meeting over the selection of a city engineering firm. But Abrahamson said his decision was unrelated to that incident. “This has nothing to do with anything at the city. You have a great council group right now and an excellent new city clerk. It would have been fun to continue to work with them.”
Abrahamson said he’d been considering resigning for the last couple months but decided to wait until he knew he’d been selected for the new job, which involves a substantial amount of appraisal work. In the end, he said, he had to make the decision for his own well-being, given the amount of work he’ll be undertaking as part of the new assignment. “I just couldn’t do it with the extra burden of the city council position,” he said.