{"id":30454,"date":"2025-10-31T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30454"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:33:41","slug":"matt-schultz-named-to-replace-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/matt-schultz-named-to-replace-gilbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Schultz named to replace Gilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an expected move, Matt Schultz has been appointed the City of Decatur&#8217;s new operations manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made Friday via Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schultz replaces Jeremy Gilbert, who resigned to take a position as project manager with Brooks Construction of Fort Wayne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matt-appointed.jpg?resize=443%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matt-appointed.jpg?w=443&amp;ssl=1 443w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matt-appointed.jpg?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Schultz has been Gilbert&#8217;s assistant since January of 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMatt officially begins his new role on Monday, November 3, and we\u2019re excited for his continued leadership and commitment to our city,\u201d the Facebook post said. \u201cPlease join us in congratulating Matt on this well-deserved promotion!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As operations manager, Schultz will oversee several city departments as well as the park board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com In an expected move, Matt Schultz has been appointed the City of Decatur&#8217;s new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-30454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Matt-appointed.jpg?fit=443%2C227&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30456,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30454\/revisions\/30456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}