{"id":65177,"date":"2015-06-23T06:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=65177"},"modified":"2015-06-23T06:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:55:17","slug":"depleted-city-council-holds-brief-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/06\/23\/depleted-city-council-holds-brief-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Depleted City Council holds brief meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b>independent editor<\/i><\/p>\n

Van Wert City Council held a brief meeting on Monday with few members attending.<\/p>\n

Joi Mergy and Jon Tomlinson had given notice they wouldn\u2019t be at the meeting, while Kirby Kelly made a late announcement that he couldn\u2019t attend. All three were excused, as was City Law Director John Hatcher.<\/p>\n

A special meeting will likely be needed to approve the planned reconstruction of a portion of South Washington Street next year, since legislation was not received for the project — and there weren\u2019t enough Council members to approve it, if it had been received.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming talks about this year’s Holiday at Home fireworks display.<\/strong> (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Council President Ken Mengerink assigned to the Judiciary and Annexation Committee a request to change a city ordinance prohibiting the sale of alcohol in Fountain Park by non-profit organizations, while the Finance Committee will meet to discuss any changes that arise for the city tax budget, due to be approved at the next Council meeting.<\/p>\n

Mayor Don Farmer commended the Van Wert Economic Development Office for a presentation it provided for Insite Consulting\u2019s mock site visit at the Jobs Ready Site north of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t have been prouder of the presentation Cindy Leis and Caitlin Jones had prepared and put on for the hour-and-a-half presentation,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cIt was very professional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming noted that Woodland Avenue, from Krendl Drive to John Brown Road, is closed until a large tree can be removed by a homeowner.<\/p>\n

He also issued a reminder to city residents that this year\u2019s Holiday at Home fireworks display will be held at the Van Wert High School-Middle School complex on Ohio 118. Fleming did note that those wanting to view the fireworks must park in the lots at the school complex, and not on the grass.<\/p>\n

The next regularly scheduled meeting of Van Wert City Council will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 13, in Council Chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building, 515 E. Main St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Van Wert City Council held a brief meeting on Monday with few members attending. Joi Mergy and Jon Tomlinson had given notice they wouldn\u2019t be at the meeting, while Kirby Kelly made a late announcement that he couldn\u2019t attend. All three were excused, as was City Law Director John Hatcher. A special […]<\/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-65177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 01:06:58","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\/65177","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=65177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}