Mayor: Hans K. Trousil
E-mail: trousilh@westburlington.org
Mayor Trousil was elected in 1985 to serve on the West Burlington City Council through 1989. In 1992 he again was elected to serve as a Council Member until his election as Mayor in 1994. He has served as Mayor since 1994.
The Mayor is the City of West Burlington's representative to Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission as a member of the Executive Board. He also serves as the representative on the Solid Waste Commission, Des Moines County Assessors Board, Des Moines County Emergency Management Commission and Grade A Plus Board.
Mayor Trousil was born in a small community just north of Frankfurt in what was known as West Germany in 1953. He along with his parents and sister emigrated to the U.S in 1964. He became a naturalized citizen in 1972.
Mayor Trousil served as member of the West Burlington Fire Department from 1976 until 1994. He is a supporter of the Music, Fine Arts and Athletic Boosters of West Burlington High School.
Mayor Trousil and his wife Deb have three grown children and two grandchildren. They have also hosted five foreign exchange students. Mayor Trousil retired from CASE Corp. after 30 years of service in 2003. The Mayors time is spend between City Hall and participating in his grandchildren's activities.
City Council
Andy Crowner Council 2020 - Present crownera@westburlington.org
Royce Heitmeier Council 2016 - Present heitmeierr@westburlington.org
Therese Lees Council 1992 - Present leest@westburlington.org
Al Waterman 2016 - Present watermana@westburlington.org
Kathy Christy Council 2020 - Present christyk@westburlington.org
Past Mayors and Council Members
Marc Pilger Tom Law John Johnson Dan Hockett Dan West Kara Steward Doug Ervine |
Council Council Council Council Council Council Council |
Nov 1995 - 2009 Nov 2006 - 2009 May 1996 - 2005 July 1992 - 1994 Nov 2010 - 2014 Nov 2010 - 2017 Nov 2014 - 2016 |
Rod Crowner |
Council |
2000 - 2019 |
Rick Raleigh |
Council |
2004 - 2019 |
Council and Mayors 1884 - 1999
John Riessen | Council 1996 - 1999 | |
Barb Hoelscher | Council Feb 1994 - 1995 | |
Brent Renteria | Council 1994 - Feb 1996 | |
Tom Anderson | Council 1994 - Sept 1995 | |
Doug Coyle | Council 1992 - 1995 | |
Richard Logan | Mayor 1990 - 1993 | |
Marvin Wagler | Council Aug 1990 - June 1992 | |
Steve Nelson | Council October 1988 - 1991 | |
Marcia Benge Martin | Council 1990 - 1993 | |
Steve Hagerla | Council 1988 - 1991 | |
Barb Benge | Council Dec 1986 - 1988 | |
Bob Leasch | Council 1986 - Sept 1986 | |
Gary Scott | Council Nov 1983 - 1991 | |
Richard Huston | Council 1984 - July 1990 | |
Kenneth Hoenig | Council June 1983 - 1985 | |
Steve Arnold | Council 1984 - 1988 | |
Robert Summers | Council 1982 - 1985 | Mayor 1986 - 1989 |
Dana Shepherd | Council 1982 - April 1983 | |
Alan Kuntz | Council 1978 - 1981 | |
Bud Wollam | Council 1978 - 1981 | |
James Gahn | Mayor 1978 - 1981 | |
John Wasson | Council 1976 - 1983 | |
Pete Hamilton | Council Nov 1975 - 1983 | |
Rod Rawlings | Council 1974 - Nov 1975 | |
Bill Bloomberg | Council 1974 - 1977 | |
Carl Jackson | Mayor 1974 - 1977 | |
Lee Haring | Council 1972 - 1977 | Mayor 1982 - 1985 |
Hoyt Irwin | Council 1972 - 1973 | |
Luke Hingst | Council Aug 1971 - 1975 | |
LaVerne Sandberg | Council 1968 - 1983 | |
Wheeler | Council 1968 - 1971 | |
Kleinkopf | Council 1968 - Aug 1971 | |
Larry Reardon | Council Apr 1966 - 1967 | |
Merlin Roasa | Council 1966 - Nov 1968 | |
Richard Brown | Council 1966 - 1969 | |
Clyde Marrs | Council 1966 - Apr 1966 | |
Kenneth Beenblossom | Council 1966 - 1967 | |
Warren Kester | Council 1966 - 1973 | |
Chester Mason | Mayor 1966 - 1973 | |
Robert Carter | Council 1964 - 1965 | |
George A. Schuff | Council 1964 - 1965 | |
J.L. Erhardt | Council 1964 - 1965 | |
John Armold | Council 1962 - 1963 Council 1970 - 1971 | |
John Buckley | Council 1960 - 1963 | |
Henry Wiele | Council 1960 - 1961 | |
Ray Cherry | Council 1958 - 1960 | |
Humus Moore | Council 1958 - 1959 | |
Art Engle | Council Apr 1957 - 1957 | |
Roger Croll | Council Apr 1957 - 1963 | |
C. Edwin Johnson | Council 1956 - 1959 | |
Jack Waite | Council 1956 - 1957 | Mayor 1958 - 1960 |
John Speck | Council 1956 - Apr 1957 | |
Floyd Bumgartner | Council 1956 Council 1958 - 1965 | |
Fred Drebenstedt | Council 1954 - 1955 | |
Virgil Young | Council 1954 - 1955 Council 1960 - 1965 | Mayor Mar 1957 - 1957 |
Charles Crowner | Council 1952 - 1955 | |
Floyd Kerr | Council 1952 - 1953 | |
Robert Lawson | Council 1952 - 1955 | |
Herman Swan | Council 1950 - 1951 | |
Art Swander | Council 1950 - 1953 | |
Edwin W. Johnson | Council 1950 - 1955 | |
K.W. Anderson | Council 1950 - 1951 | |
Glen H. Thompson | Mayor 1950 - 1951 | |
Orr | Council 1944 - 1949 | |
L.E. McKeown | Council Nov 1947 - 1949 | |
John Pierson | Council 1932 - 1939 Council 1944 - 1949 | |
Algot Bjork | Council 1932 - 1939 | |
C.C. Bjork | Council 1932 - 1939 Council 1944 - Nov 1946 Council 1950 - 1951 | Mayor May 1961 - 1965 |
H.H. Sander | Mayor 1932 - 1939 Mayor 1944 - 1949 | |
R.B. Lane | Council 1930 - 1931 Council 1944 - 1949 | |
Joe Thomas | Council 1930 - 1939 Council 1944 - 1949 | Mayor 1952 - Mar 1957 |
H.W. McMillan | Council 1928 - 1929 | |
Louis Lindgren | Council 1926 - Apr 1926 | |
George Tillman | Council 1926 - 1931 | |
P.S. Sander | Council 1926 - died Dec 1929 | |
C.F. Schwartz | Mayor 1926 - 1931 | |
F.M. Carpenter | Council 1924 - 1925 | |
J.G. Williams | Council 1924 - 1939 | |
E.V. Johnson | Council 1924 - 1925 Council 12 ? 1929 | |
F.A. Ertsinger | Mayor 1924 - 1925 | |
P.B. Schroeder | Council June 1923 - 1923 | |
Pierson | Council Feb 1923 - 1923 | |
Tom McCaw | Mayor 1922 - 1923 | |
F.E. Hogberg | Council 1922 - 1923 | |
Gus Lofgren | Council 1922 - 1923 | |
A.J. Fisher | Council 1922 - 1923 | |
H. Sander | Council 1920 - 1921 Council 1924 - 1931 | Mayor 1932 - 1939 Mayor 1944 - 1949 |
P. Benson | Trustee 1920 - 1921 | |
W. Bloom | Trustee 1920 - 1923 | |
O. Koenig | Trustee 1920 - 1921 | |
M. Roth | Trustee 1920 - 1921 | |
W.J. Gieselman | Mayor 1920 - 1921 | |
A.F. Gustafson | Trustee 1916 - 1919 | |
C.J. Enwall | Trustee 1914 - 1916 Trustee 1920 - 1923 | Mayor 1917 - 1919 |
O.T. Giese | Trustee 1914 - 1919 | |
F.P. Bloomberg | Trustee 1914 - 1919 | |
George C. Scholes | Mayor 1914 - 1916 | |
P.J. Allwein | Trustee 1912 - 1913 | |
A.H. Whitaker | Trustee 1912 - 1913 | |
Fred Peterson | Trustee 1912 - 1913 | |
C. J. Kienlen | Trustee 1912 - 1913 | |
J. R. Peoples | Trustee 1910 - 1911 | |
P.R. Ramp | Trustee 1907 - 1909 | |
Ed Rheinschmidt | Trustee 1906 - 1911 Trustee 1914 - 1915 Trustee 1924 - 1927 | |
Emil Pierson | Trustee 1906 - 1912 Trustee 1914 - 1919 | |
Chas M. Marshall | Trustee 1905 - 1907 Trustee 1918 | |
John H. Keil | Trustee 1905 - 1907 Trustee 1910 - 1911 | |
C. F. Enwall | Trustee 1904 - 1909 | |
John Swan | Trustee 1904 - 1906 | |
E.T. Saunders | Mayor 1904 - 1905 | |
Wm. Ellerhoff | Trustee 1902 - 1905 | |
F.C. Kienlen | Trustee 1902 | |
John H. Hanrahan | Trustee 1902 - 1904 | Mayor 1906 - 1909 |
J. Kaiser | Trustee 1900 - 1901 | |
E. Pierce | Trustee 1900 - 1902 | |
A.U. Winkler | Trustee 1900 - 1901 | |
V.A. Johnson | Mayor 1900 - 1903 | |
John Pearson | Trustee 1899 - 1901 | |
Chas. Fisher | Trustee 1898 - 1900 | |
John Hill | Trustee 1898 - 1903 Trustee 1908 ? 1909 | |
Geo. Stadtlander | Trustee 1896 - 1898 | |
J. Emil Johnson | Trustee 1896 - 1898 | |
Wm. Homer | Trustee 1895 - 1897 | |
E.C. Knight | Trustee 1894 - 1896 | |
John Enburg | Trustee 1894 - 1896 | |
H.E. Slipper | Trustee 1893 - 1895 Trustee 1908 ? 1911 | Mayor 1898 - 1899 |
John Heaton | Trustee 1893 - 1894 | |
H. Stockmann | Trustee 1892 - 1894 | |
H.J. Povler | Trustee 1892 - 1894 | |
Charles H. Walker | Mayor 1892 | |
Elias Schwartz | Trustee May 1891 Trustee 1897 - 1899 Trustee 1901 & 1903 | Mayor 1910 - 1912 |
R. J. McFarland | Trustee May 1891 - 1893 | |
J. Emerick Johnson | Trustee 1890 - 1892 Trustee 1898 - 1899 Trustee 1903 - 1905 | Mayor 1894 - 1895 Mayor 1897 |
George W. Scholes | Mayor 1890 - 1891 | |
Fred Kaiser | Trustee 1889 & 1899 | |
Gus Palmgren | Trustee 1889 - 1891 | |
Jacob Kastlin | Trustee 1889 - 1891 | Mayor 1893 |
Joseph Blessing | Trustee 1888 - 1893 | Mayor 1896 - 1897 |
Chas. Walker | Trustee 1888 - 1890 | Mayor 1892 |
Fred Johnson | Mayor 1888 Trustee 1890 | |
J.B. Keil | Trustee 1887 - 1888 Trustee 1895 - 1897 | |
Hugh Woods | Trustee 1887 - 1889 | |
F.J. Muzzy | Trustee 1886 | |
J. Larson | Trustee 1886 - 1888 Trustee 1891 - 1892 | |
Chas. F. Scholes | Trustee 1885 | |
John H. Boger | Trustee 1885 | |
Chas E. Hambsch | Trustee 1885 - 1886 | |
R.A. Peoples | Trustee 1885 - June 1885 | |
Edward Schwebel | Trustee 1885 - 1887 | |
N. S. Augsburger | Trustee 1885 - 1887 | |
E.C. Chapman | Mayor 1885 | |
William Peoples | Trustee 1884 | |
George Frame | Trustee 1884 | |
George Benham | Trustee 1884 | |
J. Edward Criner | Trustee 1884 | |
B.C. Pennington | Trustee 1884 Trustee 1886 - 1888 | Mayor 1889 |
Thomas C. Scholes | Mayor 1884 & 1886 |