Lehner Steps Down

The Defiance City Council bid farewell to the city’s outgoing finance director during its last meeting of 2022. Council also learned of a change in recyclable collection, planned by Werlor Waste Control and approved three final ordinances, including the year-end appropriations legislation that will close out the city’s 2022 budgeting and the tenure of Finance Director John Lehner. He recently announced that in January he will become Defiance College’s chief financial officer. His last day in City Hall is Dec. 30.