{"id":161465,"date":"2022-12-27T04:45:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T09:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=161465"},"modified":"2022-12-27T04:45:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T09:45:43","slug":"council-handles-year-end-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/12\/27\/council-handles-year-end-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Council handles year-end business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert City Council\u2019s final meeting of 2022 was completed in almost no time Monday night \u2013 exactly 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council members breezed through a light agenda, giving final approval to a pair of salary ordinances for safety department employees (police department, fire department and non-bargaining unit members), and service department employees (auditor\u2019s office, income tax and administration).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Van-Wert-City-Council-12-26-2022-e1672105191851.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161467\"\/><figcaption>Van Wert City Council live streams each council meeting on the city&#8217;s website, vanwert.org. From left to right: Law Director John Hatcher, Council President Jerry Mazur and Council Clerk Drew Bittner. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Council also passed a resolution approving rates for employee contribution and employer\u2019s participation in the city\u2019s healthcare program and health savings account (HSA) program for calendar year 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City council approved \u201cthen and now\u201d payments of $12,294.45 to Lexipol for a software program; $1,987.07 and $1,547.81 for September and October secretarial reimbursement for the law director; $1,745.43 and $1,786.14 to Belna Petroleum, and $9369.75 to Holiday Inn Express for CAMO Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his report to council, Mayor Ken Markward noted he\u2019s re-appointed James Stripe to a new six-year term on the Civil Service Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law Director John Hatcher requested legislation be prepared for the next meeting for contracts for 2023 with Ben Bilimek, assistant law director; special prosecutors George Moore and Shawn Putman, and a contract for Victim Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council President Jerry Mazur said the city has received an application for a new liquor permit for Beer Barrel Pizza and Grill, which will open in the former Aaron\u2019s building on Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday\u2019s meeting was the final one for Council Clerk Drew Bittner. Mazur thanked him for more than two years of service and he noted Lisa Hartsock will step in as the new clerk in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next meeting of Van Wert City Council will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, January 9, in Council Chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building, 515 E. Main St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Van Wert City Council\u2019s final meeting of 2022 was completed in almost no time Monday night \u2013 exactly 30 minutes. Council members breezed through a light agenda, giving final approval to a pair of salary ordinances for safety department employees (police department, fire department and non-bargaining unit members), and service department employees [&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-161465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:46:43","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\/161465","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=161465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161477,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161465\/revisions\/161477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}