{"id":100534,"date":"2016-05-12T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100534"},"modified":"2016-05-13T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:01:43","slug":"vc-mayor-bob-werkhoven-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100534","title":{"rendered":"Valley City Mayor Bob Werkhoven resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-93350\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/werkhovenBob-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"werkhovenBob\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/werkhovenBob-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/werkhovenBob-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/werkhovenBob.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP-CSi) &#8211; Valley City Mayor Bob Werkhoven has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>The 85-year-old Werkhoven\u00a0said\u00a0 in a\u00a0radio\u00a0 interview Thursday morning that recent health issues prompted him to step down from the office he&#8217;s held since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Four city employees earlier this year filed a grievance against Werkhoven for allegedly creating a hostile work environment. He denied the allegations by City Administrator David Schelkoph, Police Chief Fred Thompson, Police Lt. David Swenson and City Attorney Russ Myhre.<\/p>\n<p>Those individuals are represented by Jamestown Attorney, Joe Larson who said his clients wish Werkhoven well in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Larson says he and his clients will decide what direction the grievances may take, if any, in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Werkhoven says the dispute had nothing to do with his decision to resign Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Werkhoven has served Valley City for 14 years, and was elected in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He won a recall election in January 2012, picking up 1,124\u00a0\u00a0votes or 56 percent of votes cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP-CSi) &#8211; Valley City Mayor Bob Werkhoven has resigned. The 85-year-old Werkhoven\u00a0said\u00a0 in a\u00a0radio\u00a0 interview Thursday morning that recent health issues prompted him to step down from the office he&#8217;s held since 2010. Four city employees earlier this year filed a grievance against Werkhoven for allegedly creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100534"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100602,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534\/revisions\/100602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}