Metzler leaving Sunbury Council; resignation effective December 31

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Dur­ing last Wednesday’s (Decem­ber 19) Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing, Sun­bury Mayor Tommy Hat­field announced that coun­cil mem­ber Bill Met­zler is resign­ing from coun­cil effec­tive Decem­ber 31, cit­ing per­sonal health reasons.

Hat­field said Metzler’s res­ig­na­tion has been hard to accept, and he also under­stood that it was a tough deci­sion for Bill and Janet Met­zler to make.

“They have been in this com­mu­nity since 2005, and they’ve become an inte­gral part of our com­mu­nity,” Hat­field said. “Before Bill became a coun­cil mem­ber he spent two years at every one of our meet­ings. To put that kind of time in to pre­pare for this job is, to me, amazing.”

Hat­field said that Metzler’s tenure on vil­lage coun­cil had made him – Hat­field — a bet­ter per­son and a bet­ter coun­cil person

“And Bill and Janet were not just active in these cham­bers,” Hat­field said. “When it was time to pull weeds and mulch they were the first ones in line to show up.”

Met­zler began his four-year term at the coun­cil dais in Jan­u­ary of 2010. With his for­mal res­ig­na­tion dated Decem­ber 31, Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil mem­bers have 30 days to fill the vacant seat.

Should coun­cil mem­bers fail to fill the vacancy cre­ated by Metzler’s res­ig­na­tion within the statu­tory 30 days, Hat­field, as mayor, would be required to appoint some­one to fill the seat until the end of Metzler’s term in office – Decem­ber 31, 2013.

Hat­field said any vil­lage res­i­dent who has lived in Sun­bury for at least one year and who is inter­ested in fill­ing the one-year vacancy on Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil should send a let­ter of inter­est, along with a resume to Vil­lage of Sun­bury Mayor Tommy Hat­field, before close of busi­ness on Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 11, 2013.

Hat­field said the let­ter and resume could also be deliv­ered in per­son to the Vil­lage of Sun­bury Munic­i­pal Build­ing, 9 East Granville Street in Sun­bury; or via reg­u­lar mail to Vil­lage of Sun­bury, P.O. Box 508, Sun­bury, OH 43074; or by e-mail to Tommy Hat­field at < VillageofSunburyOhio@gmail.com <mailto:VillageofSunburyOhio@gmail.com> >.

Janet Met­zler has resigned from her at-large posi­tion as a mem­ber of vil­lage council’s Parks & Safety Committe.

Mem­bers of the Parks Com­mit­tee are also seek­ing to fill the vacant at-large Parks & Safety Com­mit­tee posi­tion. To express an inter­est in serv­ing on Parks send a let­ter of inter­est and a resume to the vil­lage admin­is­tra­tion office, or email mayor Hat­field, or call the admin­is­tra­tion office at 740–965-2684 for addi­tional information.

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