{"id":207824,"date":"2026-07-13T22:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207824"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:12:34","slug":"city-treasurer-tenders-her-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/city-treasurer-tenders-her-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"City treasurer tenders her resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After roughly six months on the job, Van Wert City Treasurer Johanna Quarles has resigned from office.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Mayor Ken Markward explained that Quarles accepted a job with the First Bank of Berne, which does business with the city. Quarles tendered her immediate resignation on Friday to avoid a potential conflict of interest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markward said he\u2019s checking with the Van Wert County Board of Elections to confirm what the next step is in naming a replacement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarles ran unopposed for city treasurer last November.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor After roughly six months on the job, Van Wert City Treasurer Johanna Quarles has resigned from office.&nbsp; During Monday night\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Mayor Ken Markward explained that Quarles accepted a job with the First Bank of Berne, which does business with the city. Quarles tendered her immediate resignation [&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-207824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 05:20:06","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\/207824","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=207824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207825,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207824\/revisions\/207825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}