Oak Harbor council approves consent agenda and accounts-payable vouchers; one councillor recused from Chamber payment

The Oak Harbor City Council approved the consent agenda as presented and later moved to approve accounts-payable vouchers at its Oct. 7 meeting.

A motion to approve the consent agenda was made by Councilmember Wieggenstein and seconded by Councilmember Merrow; the mayor called for a vote and the consent agenda was approved as presented.

The voucher list included payments to the Greater Oak Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Because Councilmember Marshall is the Chamber's executive director, he stated he would recuse himself from voting on payments to the Chamber; the recusal was noted before the voucher vote.

A motion to approve the accounts-payable vouchers was made by Councilmember Wieggenstein and seconded by the mayor pro tem. The mayor called for a vote and announced the result; the meeting record reports the outcome as "approved" with an abstention recorded for the Chamber payment. The transcript does not provide a full roll-call vote tally by name.

Outcome: Consent agenda approved (unanimous per mayor's announcement). Accounts-payable vouchers approved; Councilmember Marshall recused himself from votes involving the Chamber of Commerce payment. No further action was recorded during the Oct. 7 meeting.

Note: The meeting transcript records the motion and mayoral announcement of approval and notes the recusal. A full roll-call with each councilmember's recorded vote was not provided in the transcript excerpt.