With Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler expected to be hospitalized for the next six to eight months, what will become of his position on council?

The seat will be his until it is left vacant. Council does not remove members for missing meetings, said City Attorney Clarke Whitfield.

“Councilman Vogler is a city councilman until he is not,” Whitfield told the Register & Bee. “City Council members have no attendance requirements. Until the seat is vacant, there is no replacement process.”

Vogler, 38, was first elected to City Council in 2012 and was reelected to a fourth term in November.

On Monday, the Danville Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority decided to temporarily replace Vogler, who was chair of RIFA at the time of the vicious attack on him on July 30.

Vogler was

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