The Brighton City Council on Tuesday selected Ward 2 Council Member Greg Mills as the city’s mayor, following a recall of Ken Kreutzer last month.

Mills, an insurance broker, has served on council since 2018.

Fox31 reported in July that Kreutzer and a majority of the council may have wanted to fire their city manager because he found the existence of $70 million consisting of residential water overcharges.

The manager, Philip Rodriguez, alleged that he also uncovered no-bid contracts and projects that the city charged residents for but which never got built. The council fired him on a 5-4 vote.

The news channel subsequently found that the council entered executive session improperly.

“It wasn’t my intent to step around state law,” Kreutzer said at the time.

Nearly 71% of voters chose to recall the mayor in the 2019 general election. There is no indication that any other recalls have occurred in the city’s history.

The council may either select a candidate to fill Mills’s seat or schedule a special election. Mills will be sworn in as mayor on Dec. 17.