{"id":101098,"date":"2016-05-20T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101098"},"modified":"2016-05-20T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:07:12","slug":"special-election-petition-drive-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=101098","title":{"rendered":"Special Election petition drive started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75032\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/petitionfax.jpg\" alt=\"petitionfax\" width=\"92\" height=\"149\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi) A Valley City resident will circulate a petition to request the City Commission to call for a Special Election to replace former Mayor Bob Werkhoven, who resigned May 12, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The City Commission accepted his resignation at the May 17, 2016 Commission meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The group is led by Valley City resident Janis Clark Klein.<\/p>\n<p>Valley City Auditor Avis Richter says petitioners need to collect 66 signatures from Valley City residents before the referendum is brought before the city commission for approval.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioners have until May 31st to collect the necessary signatures and hand them into her office for approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi) A Valley City resident will circulate a petition to request the City Commission to call for a Special Election to replace former Mayor Bob Werkhoven, who resigned May 12, 2016. The City Commission accepted his resignation at the May 17, 2016 Commission meeting. The group is led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101099,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101098\/revisions\/101099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}