{"id":156424,"date":"2022-07-29T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T02:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=156424"},"modified":"2022-07-29T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T02:34:44","slug":"agricultural-society-holding-director-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/29\/agricultural-society-holding-director-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag Society holding director elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Agricultural Society has announced available director positions. Petitions will be available starting Monday, August 1, for the following seats that are up for election: Harrison Township, Ridge Township, Union Township, Willshire Township, central region and county villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each candidate must fulfill the following requirements to file a petition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Purchase a membership certificate for the membership year in which candidate is seeking election. <\/li><li>Complete 10 hours of voluntary service to the society, in the fiscal year in which candidate is seeking election. <\/li><li>Attend one regular monthly board meetings of the society, during the fiscal year in which candidate is seeking election. <\/li><li>State on petition the specific board position for which candidate is seeking election. <\/li><li>Collect 10 or more signatures from members of the society, from the area for which board position represents.  <\/li><li>In the case that the ten required signatures from members of the Society from the area for which the board position represents cannot be obtained due to circumstances such as a pandemic or other like causes, then the required number of signatures is changed to 20 of the membership as a whole. The requirement to limit it to the area being represented is waived for that election cycle only.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Any candidate not fulfilling the above-listed requirements shall be ineligible for election as director. Items B and C, above, will become effective for candidates seeking election for the 2022 election and each following election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The Van Wert County Agricultural Society has announced available director positions. Petitions will be available starting Monday, August 1, for the following seats that are up for election: Harrison Township, Ridge Township, Union Township, Willshire Township, central region and county villages. Each candidate must fulfill the following requirements to file a [&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-156424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 09:25:42","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\/156424","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=156424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156432,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156424\/revisions\/156432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}