{"id":115276,"date":"2019-03-22T07:57:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T12:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=115276"},"modified":"2019-03-22T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T12:57:54","slug":"vw-designated-certified-local-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/03\/22\/vw-designated-certified-local-government\/","title":{"rendered":"VW designated Certified Local Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Van Wert was awarded the Certified Local Government designation by Nathan Bevil, community planning and preservation manager. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The responsibilities of the Certified Local Government include maintaining an historic preservation commission. The National Historic Preservation Act established a nationwide program of financial and technical assistance to preserve historic properties-buildings, structures, sites, neighborhoods, and other places of importance in the historical and cultural life of the nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CLG-designation-photo-3-21-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115277\"\/><figcaption><strong>Shown are (front row, from the left) Wassenberg Executive Director Hope Wallace, Joanne Thatcher; (back row) City Engineering Supervisor Bill Lawson, Van Wert City Councilman At-Large Bill Marshall, City Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming, Main Street Van Wert Executive Director Mitch Price, George Adam, Van Wert Mayor Jerry Mazur, and Community Planning and Preservation Manager Nathan A. Bevil.<\/strong> <em>photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A local government can participate directly in this program when the state historic preservation of\ufb01cer (SHPO) certi\ufb01es the local government has established its own historic preservation commission and a program meeting federal and state standards. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local governments that receive such certi\ufb01cation are known as \u201cCerti\ufb01ed Local Governments\u201d (CLGs). Among the benefits of becoming a certified local government is eligibility to apply for special earmarked grants from SHPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The City of Van Wert was awarded the Certified Local Government designation by Nathan Bevil, community planning and preservation manager. &nbsp; The responsibilities of the Certified Local Government include maintaining an historic preservation commission. The National Historic Preservation Act established a nationwide program of financial and technical assistance to preserve historic properties-buildings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 05:40:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}