KIMBALL -- City Council Member Don Muench is leaving the council and Kimball by the end of the month. 

Muench received a promotion to a supervisory role with Tallgrass Energy, and the job requires him to move to Kearney. He starts his new job July 21. 

Muench has lived in Kimball for five years and he says out of everywhere he has lived, Kimball has felt the most like home. 

“It’s with a heavy heart that I have to leave,” Muench says. “It’s not my first choice, but it’s the choice I have to make for my career to grow."