Record · Local legislation
City of Van Wert Ordinance 26-05-028 — accepting the expedited annexation of 901.698 ± acres from Hoaglin, Pleasant and Ridge Townships into the City of Van Wert, passed as an emergency on first and final reading 2026-05-11
2026-05-11-ord-26-05-028-annexation
Fields
instrument
City of Van Wert Ordinance 26-05-028 — accepting the expedited annexation of 901.698 ± acres from Hoaglin, Pleasant and Ridge Townships into the City of Van Wert, passed as an emergency on first and final reading 2026-05-11
ordinance_no
26-05-028
body
Council of the City of Van Wert, Ohio
body_kind
city_council
committee
Judiciary and Annexation
subject_matter
annexation
adopted
2026-05-11
outcome
approved
emergency
yes
readings
first and final (statutory rules suspended)
title_as_posted_verbatim
AN ORDINANCE TO ACCEPT THE EXPEDITED TYPE 2 ANNEXATION OF 901.698+/- ACRES FROM HOAGLIN TOWNSHIP, PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, AND RIDGE TOWNSHIP TO THE CITY OF VAN WERT, OHIO AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
title_as_passed_verbatim
AN ORDINANCE TO ACCEPT THE EXPEDITED TYPE 1 ANNEXATION OF 901.698+/- ACRES FROM HOAGLIN TOWNSHIP, PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, AND RIDGE TOWNSHIP TO THE CITY OF VAN WERT, OHIO AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
effect
Accepts the annexation of 901.698 ± acres from three townships into the City of Van Wert; directs the Clerk to deliver certified copies to the County Auditor, the County Recorder and the Ohio Secretary of State.
vote
- roll_call_recorded no
- as_recorded_verbatim "Agler seconded; all concurred. Ordinance passed."
- note [verified] NO NUMERIC TALLY. The approved minutes record a second and "all concurred" — not a roll call and not a count. Every one of the three Mega Site ordinances passed this way.
source_pages
- body 26-05-028-draft-ordinance.pdf pp. 0-1
- exhibits 26-05-028.pdf pp. 0-9
- passage 5.11.26.pdf p. 3
what_this_instrument_does_not_establish
- WHICH EXPEDITED TYPE THE ENACTED ORDINANCE READS. The City's Law Director framed the difference as "a typographical error in the agenda only"; the record shows "Type 2" in three places (the 2026-04-27 committee motion, the posted ordinance title, the 2026-05-11 agenda as first published) and "Type 1" in one (the title as read at passage). It cannot be settled from any document in this corpus, because no signed or certified copy is public. The resolution route is a certified copy from the Clerk of Council, and/or the annexation transcript filed with the County Recorder and the Secretary of State under this ordinance's own Section 2.
- THE ANNEXATION IS NOT A CONVEYANCE. This act moves a jurisdictional boundary; it transfers no title and names no grantor or grantee. Van Wert's record still carries no conveyance instrument for the Mega Site.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- The source PDF is an UNSIGNED pre-passage upload with an unfilled passage clause, posted four days before the vote. Passage and the title as read rest on the approved minutes.
- Read entirely by OCR of page images at 300-400 DPI; there is no text layer to check against.
Where it connects
van-wert/council/2026-05-11-ord-26-05-028-annexation.resolution.yaml · p.1 · van-wert