The Brown County Council is down one member after District 1 member Bill Hamilton submitted his resignation.

Hamilton’s decision was announced at Monday night’s council meeting. He’s leaving his council post after accepting a job as an investigator with the Brown County Prosecutor’s Office.

He attended Monday night’s meeting, but sat in the audience with his wife.

Hamilton was elected to the county council in November 2018.

“By taking the position (at the prosecutor’s office) it wasn’t a plan to try to get away from county council. That’s why it (the resignation) had been postponed so we could find a way for me to legally serve (with both),” he said.

The process on how Hamilton’s replacement will be picked by the local Republican Party is not yet known.

Read more in next week’s Democrat.