{"id":192283,"date":"2025-04-28T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192283"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:53:17","slug":"kallas-not-seeking-re-election-to-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/04\/28\/kallas-not-seeking-re-election-to-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallas not seeking re-election to council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be at least one new face on Van Wert City Council in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At-Large Councilman Jeff Kallas stated he will not seek re-election in November. He made the announcement Monday night, as council members were discussing a possible pay raise, starting with the next term.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jeff-Kallas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192291\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jeff Kallas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kallas is currently serving his third term on Van Wert City Council. He\u2019s a teacher at Van Wert High School and a realtor with Bee Gee Realty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert City Council is currently comprised of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council President: Thad Eikenbary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At-Large: Judy Bowers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At-Large: Jeff Kallas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At-Large: Jana Ringwald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Ward: Jeff Agler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second Ward: Greg Roberts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third Ward: Julie Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth Ward: Bill Marshall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All eight council seats are up for election this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor There will be at least one new face on Van Wert City Council in 2026. At-Large Councilman Jeff Kallas stated he will not seek re-election in November. He made the announcement Monday night, as council members were discussing a possible pay raise, starting with the next term. Kallas is currently serving his [&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-192283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 17:16:28","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\/192283","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=192283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192305,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192283\/revisions\/192305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}