{"id":169821,"date":"2023-09-06T03:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=169821"},"modified":"2023-09-06T03:47:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:47:33","slug":"special-council-meeting-to-be-live-streamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/09\/06\/special-council-meeting-to-be-live-streamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Special meeting to be live streamed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight\u2019s special Van Wert City Council \u201cCouncil of the Whole\u201d meeting will be live streamed on the city\u2019s website. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council\u2019s rate of pay will be the topic of discussion. Council members voted last month to raise annual salaries from $4,900 to $6,100, and from $5,500 to $6,700 for the council president, effective in 2024. However, Mayor Ken Markward vetoed the raises and suggested salaries of $3,000 for ward and at-large council members and $3,500 for the council president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert City Council could try to override the mayor\u2019s veto at the next regular meeting, scheduled for September 11. Five votes are needed for an override.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once tonight\u2019s meeting begins, it can be viewed by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/chvid.com\/go\/dist\/vod.cfm?org=vwcc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Tonight\u2019s special Van Wert City Council \u201cCouncil of the Whole\u201d meeting will be live streamed on the city\u2019s website. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building. Council\u2019s rate of pay will be the topic of discussion. Council members voted [&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-169821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:49:34","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\/169821","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=169821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169859,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821\/revisions\/169859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}