{"id":37860,"date":"2026-07-24T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=37860"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:02:57","slug":"small-turnout-small-agenda-brief-meeting-for-decatur-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/small-turnout-small-agenda-brief-meeting-for-decatur-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Small turnout, small agenda, brief meeting for Decatur council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conferences, vacations, and no-shows trimmed the number of on-hand officials as well as the agenda for the July 21 meeting of Decatur City Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Dan Rickord was attending a conference of mayors and council members Scott Murray and Jenny Bowers-Shultz were unable to attend the meeting in City Hall&#8217;s council chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councilman Matt Dyer took over the mayor&#8217;s chair as mayor pro-tem, joined up front by council members Tyler Fullenkamp and Abby Wilder, along with Clerk-Treasurer Eran Hackman and City Attorney Anne Razo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trio-citiy-.jpg?resize=640%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37861\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.7090255336580036;width:529px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trio-citiy-.jpg?resize=1024%2C378&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trio-citiy-.jpg?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trio-citiy-.jpg?resize=768%2C283&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Trio-citiy-.jpg?w=1068&amp;ssl=1 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Clerk-Treasurer Eran Hackman, Mayor Pro Tem\/Councilman Matt Dyer, City Attorney Anne Razo (l to r<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple of department heads were missing; that list no longer includes the now-retired Bill Carpenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Business was held as usual, though. With the mayor pro tem still able to vote via his at-large council position, that made for a three-person quorum for both the council and board of works and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two meetings lasted a little less than an hour, due in part to the fact that one group on the agenda wasn&#8217;t present and another situation was resolved before the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus, a possible festival presentation wasn&#8217;t made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted, however, some business was held:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Utilities Superintendent Erin Heyerly was given permission by the board of works and safety to begin the process to fill an opening at the treatment plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening came about as Seth Haines moved to the position of assistant water superintendent, replacing Carpenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Street\/Sewage Superintendent Matt Schultz also received permission from the board to fill an opening, this one in the street department created by the departure of Brandon Wideman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Leases for the Family Center Services and the Literacy Council were renewed for one year by the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Conferences, vacations, and no-shows trimmed the number of on-hand officials as well as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-37860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37862,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions\/37862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}