WEIRTON CITY COUNCIL
COUNCIL MEETING - REGULAR
MONDAY, JULY 07, 2008 7:00 P. M.
A regular meeting of the Common Council of the City of Weirton, Hancock and Brooke Counties, West Virginia was held on Monday, July 07, 2008 at 7:00 P.M. in Council Chambers of the Weirton City Building.
Mayor Harris called the meeting to order.
Councilmembers in Attendance: George Ash Councilmember Ward 4 Fred Marsh Councilmember Ward 3 Harold Miller Councilmember Ward 2 David Dalrymple Councilmember Ward 6 Max Fijewski Councilmember Ward 7
Councilmembers in Attendance: Ronnie Jones Councilmember Ward 1 George Kondik Councilmember Ward 5
City Officials in Attendance: John Brown Public Works Director Gary DuFour City Manager Ricky Grishkevich Police Department Vincent Gurrera City Attorney Bruce Lamp Code Official David Lashhorn Fire Chief Thomas J. Maher, Jr. City Clerk Bruce Marshall Police Chief Debbie Swanson Finance Director Terry Weigel Parks Director
Others in Attendance: Gio Rossi Media - Weirton Daily Times
Mayor Harris led everyone in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A motion was made by Councilmember Ash and second by Councilmember Fijewski to approve the minutes of the: June 09, 2008 – Regular Council MeetingThe motion carried, 5/0.
MAYOR’S AWARDS AND PROCLAMATIONS
Mayor Harris commented, “Carol Kennedy, can you come up front please? Carol, for years, has been planting flowers in our hanging baskets throughout town, also planning all the flowers in our pots, what you see around the City Building, and she’s done a great job doing that. We just want to tell you that on behalf of City Council and myself that we really appreciate everything you do for the City and we want to thank you with this certificate of appreciation.”
Ms. Kennedy commented, “Well, thank you very much.”
APPLAUSE
Ms. Kennedy commented, “I don’t know exactly how many plants that I have handled this year, but last year I had a total of twelve hundred plants that I had handled and volunteers had helped to plant. Just don’t ask me how many petunias are in these pots, because I have no idea. I have volunteers. When I start out in the spring I have a list of volunteers that works form year to year, or sometimes I recruit new people in helping me. This year, I had the Boy Scouts the first night and I came out of Iannetti’s with a truck load that night. Now, I’m talking flats, not just a little tray, I’m talking flats. And, they had planted all, they did all of West Street for me the first night and Lee Avenue and across from Barone’s that night. So, that was Troop 336, and there was four or five adults with them that night. The Campfires from New Cumberland, Patty Binkowski, I think, her troop did the Library, if you will notice, down on the side of Walnut Street and on Walnut Street and the bed underneath the flowers and so fourth. Ward Four Homeowners did the three planters in the Center and the barrels down behind the Library. But, first of all I had the Hancock County Retired Employees and they did about fifty of the pots that you see out in front of the City Building and the Library. And, in regard to the pots, I had a couple individuals to help me and they potted forty of pots that went to Weirton Chamber of Commerce that went to the business places here in Weirton. I think that about covers the volunteer that I’ve had, and I cannot give you a total of how many volunteers I did have working with me. I did not keep that, but I could get back to that. But, I have no idea. In the fall, Weirton Chamber of Commerce has been helping me, the two gals at the Weirton Chamber. We take the pots that we use now and pull out the summer ones and put mums in, in front that we use at the Library and the Center and in front of the City Building. So, we reuse pots. I reuse pots all the time. I want to thank you all for this award. I can’t tell you how many times, how long I’ve been doing this because I started this back when B.O.L.T. was here, probably in the 80s, when I was a member of the B.O.L.T.”
Mayor Harris commented, “We want to thank you for helping keep our City neat.”
Ms. Kennedy commented, “Thank you very much and please excuse me. I’ve had a long day.”
COMMUNICATIONS
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “I just want to let everyone know that the Hall of Fame Nomination Forms have been finalized. The Committee has done good work. Those forms have been distributed throughout the community. They’re placed, and I don’t think, I don’t know all, I hope I don’t miss any. We have them, obviously, here in City Hall. We have them in the Community Center, in the Library, Town Hall Restaurant, Marsh’s, Marsh Hardware, Gus’s Goodies, Chamber of Commerce. I hope I’m not leaving anybody out. But, they’re distributed throughout the community. The nomination timeframe is from November 1st through the end of September. Gio has been kind enough to work with the Committee, and I believe that sometime this week Gio you’ll be announcing that in the paper on a formal basis. But, we’ll try to keep it up throughout the nomination period, and we hope it goes well.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “Mayor, also under Communications, the Housing Task Force has asked me to come to Council and request an additional thirty days. The bottom line is all the reports that we’ve received, all of the discussion that we’ve talked about. And, to bring it back to Council under a workshop if possible. So, if you would, just leave number four under Old Business tabled as is and allow us, if Council has no objection, allow us the additional thirty days.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Under Communications also I’d like to thank Freddie Marsh for what you did on the Motorcycle Run. You guys did a great job, a great turnout with the governor. Also, the Renaissance was a great turnout also, and we keep getting bigger every year it looks like. So, there are all the volunteers I’d like to thank them. They did a great job. We missed Bubba running it this year.”
Councilmember Miller commented, “I think Gus did a great job. Plus, it’s great for the community. What we have that weekend has always been great for the community with the fireworks and then the festival and the symphony up on Three Springs. It makes a class act for our City, and we should all be proud of it.”
Councilmember Marsh commented, “Again, I want to thank John Brown and his people for the work that they did. We had a very good response to the run. We were very fortunate to be able to get the governor to go with us. And, things went really well. We are expecting somewhere in the area of $2,500.00 to come in for the Youth Advisory Board. We still have some monies coming in, so we’ll get that tallied up and get it to Council.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Good job.”
Councilmember Miller commented, “We do have the champion of the wing eating contest here this evening. He happens to be on duty.”
Mayor Harris commented, “How many wings was that?”
Councilmember Miller commented, “Well, on the final, I think he did 14, a total of 27. But, and, the chief told me just today that there still are donations coming in from the community, not only what we raised that evening, but donations are coming in. Both the Police Department and the Fire Department should be pleased at what they were able to accomplish. It was a fun evening in addition. And, I’d like to thank Councilman Marsh for his donation and also Councilman Kondik and Councilman Marsh for coming to the event (unintelligible). Thank you.”
Councilmember Dalrymple commented, “Was it just a light weight division that he competed in to win that, or…”
LAUGHTER
Councilmember Dalrymple commented, “I think we need to put a Councilman on there next time around. We’ll see.”
Councilmember Miller commented, “Officer Moodie didn’t even make it to the finals. Steve had six in the finals, three firemen and three for the police.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Also, Chief, we’d like to thank you and your Police Department for what you guys did down at the dunking booth too. I hear you raised a lot of money.”
Chief Marshall commented, “Yes, sir. We did.”
Mayor Harris commented, “I got to dunk you 4 times.”
Chief Marshall commented, “Yes, and I ate a lot of water because of you. Thanks.”
LAUGHTER
Mayor Harris commented, “But thank everyone in your department that volunteered for that.”
CITIZEN COMMENTS
Mark Zatezalo 540 North 12th Street, Weirton, WV: Re: Redevelopment Authority Mr. Zatezalo commented, “My remarks today are in response to a request that was made by Council during a meeting that I had with them concerning the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Weirton. Council expressed the desire to have some progress updates as far as what we are up to and I promised them that I would be here on July 07 to deliver a progress report for the Council and any people that are here to listen. As you know we meet whenever we can the first Tuesday of every month at five o’clock and the meeting is open to the public just to let everybody who is here know that. We have moved a lot of things forward for the Council, and I believe the Council is aware of this but I’ll go over it very briefly. We, the Redevelopment Authority has certified two areas as in need of redevelopment. The first area starts at the overpass right around the overpass, Virginia Avenue and heads south to Freedom Way, and that’s the Southern Redevelopment District. The other district that was certified goes north from the overpass at Virginia Avenue. It goes all the way to the river across the river and to Brown’s Island. That is the Northern Redevelopment District. Those districts have been studied by planning consultants and certified as in need of redevelopment or in need or in blight. To everybody who is here tonight I will say once again as I say all the time, that doesn’t mean that personal property within that district is blighted. That doesn’t mean that the whole district needs to be bull dozed or anything. It doesn’t even come close to that. It means that there is a need for redevelopment, and that was put forth in the certification study that was presented to Council some time ago. Having said those things, we will start off and I will give you a run down on what has happened in the Southern District first, because that one was certified first, and we had the redevelopment put before Council first. So, I’ll start with that one and fill you in on the details. If there are any questions, just stop me. I’ll be glad to answer if I can, and we will move on.
The Southern District was certified by Urban Design Ventures, Inc. of Homestead, Pennsylvania. That was in late 2006, I believe. A redevelopment plan was submitted to City Council at a public hearing that was held in May of 2007. And, it was passed, as far as the basic redevelopment plan. In that plan are many elements, one of which is to improve the streetscapes of the Southern District to make it more amenable to business, to the attraction of business and making it a more pleasant commercial area. The Council was very much in favor, or I believe the Council was very much in favor of it at that time, because we all recognize the need to improve the look of the city. When we had 12,000 people working here and the mills running full blast, it wasn’t that necessary to worry about such things. Now that we have to attract business, it makes it a little bit more necessary and a little bit more urgent to do these types of things to improve the look of the streets as you come into town and through the city. We have a lot of people coming here, traveling through to Mountaineer and other places, so it’s a good idea to improve the streetscapes. That’s one of the things. In addition to that, there were 13, I believe, properties that the city owns in the Southern Redevelopment District. The Redevelopment Plan calls for an assessment of those properties to determine whether they can be sold, used, or whatnot to make sure that we can start the redevelopment process in the Southern District and actually get some funds. When I say sold, sold to private entities for redevelopment. The Redevelopment Authority has the wherewithal and means to make sure when they sell property that it gets used and that it’s used within a certain timeframe. There are many things that we can do to assure that the property gets developed. That’s one of the nice things about having a Redevelopment Authority. To that end there are several properties that come into the Redevelopment Plan and I will speak to both of those tonight. The first one is Cove School. We have not, we have not obtained the Cove School property. The Redevelopment Authority does not have control of the Cove School Property as of yet. The asbestos studies are being done on the school and it is being done in anticipation of razing the school. We, I would support that as far as, as far as my reading of the record, there have been plenty of options to look at the school for redevelopment and that type of thing, and the costs are pretty prohibitive to do much with it. Plus, it’s a very big building with very little parking. But, we have allocated funds and we requested CDBG funds to do streetscape redevelopment, $100,000. We have been asked because a grant for razing Cove School did not come through from the EPA, which is a, I am involved with such matters up in Pittsburgh, and that’s not an unusual occurrence by any means. Those grants are very competitive, and we did not receive the grant to bring it down. We were asked to look at the possibility of reallocating funds to aid in that effort. We still have plans to do streetscapes, but we would entertain the help if we need to reallocate the funds. We will work with the Council in any way that they see fit, and we intend to do that. We have done some research on that up to this point, and what we found out, I believe, to date, is that we could only use a portion of that money for demolition. We cannot use the whole amount. We’ll get back to you with the exact amount. One other thing and once again, we have not obtained the rights or the property, the deed to the property, as of yet. And, if we go to redevelop we would do that. We would look to obtain that property and put it out for proposal to redevelop. That’s the first one. The second one are two lots on West Street. Mr. Hatalla from the Tin Mill Community Federal Credit Union through City Manager Gary DuFour, and I’ve spoken with Mr. Hatalla, has requested that we consider the sale of two city owned lots next to the Tin Mill Credit Union to be conveyed to them so that they can construct a parking lot and drive thru facility for their credit union. We have met as a Redevelopment Authority, and it is absolutely consistent with the Redevelopment Plan, as far as what we can do with the properties. And, we have sent a letter to Council which we drafted last week, and I believe it was in your information packet for Friday, that came to you on Friday, for your consideration to convey those City owned properties to the Redevelopment Authority so we can go through the process of requesting the proposals and that type of thing.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Excuse me Mark. So those two pieces, those two lots, two pieces of property are not among the 13 you referenced earlier.”
Mr. Zatezalo commented, “They are.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “So, they are. You currently now have them.”
Mr. Zatezalo commented, “We have not received any property yet, and it’s done just, you know, a lot of the problem we, and Max, that’s a very good question, because we did an assessment of the lots, and about half of them I would say are not going to be very developable. But, these two are two of the ones that we saw that can be, can be use for something. Currently, they’re parking lots, and to let the Tin Mill Credit Union upgrade those lots and also use it for a drive through is a use that we think would fit very well with bringing the development of the City, moving it forward. So, we sent the request, and we would like to see if Council can act on that request to convey the property to us. We would in turn ask for a proposal. And, if everything meets our objectives, we would sell the property and that would be seed money for the Redevelopment Authority to do (unintelligible) would like to do. Of course, still, well, you know, like other City entities, we can use funds at any time we can get them, so we can go ahead with our work. That is the Southern District. That’s what we’re up to right now. So, the two points that I would ask where we would like to have more input from the Council is the Cove School situation and this Tin Mill Credit Union. We will help in any way that we can as far as, and we will take guidance from the Council. Whatever you wish to do.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “Mark, would you have any objection to reallocating the money from the Redevelopment Authority over to the, cause Council has the authority to do it, take the hundred thousand dollars from the Redevelopment Authority and give it to the code officials for demolition only. Do you have any objection to that?”
Mr. Zatezalo commented, “Our, I, if it works, that’s fine. If it’s, you know, what we’ve already discussed, and whatever we can do to help the situation, we’ll be more than happy to do. And, however it works, and I am not sure what, you know, once you apply for the funds, whether you can do that. There is some question about whether the maximum amount CDBG money exceeds what we’ve been allocated. In other words, we, I believe, and Gary, I think the number’s 92,000 dollars of CDBG funds can be used for demolition.”
Mr. DuFour commented, “Yes, of which 50,000 is already allocated to clean up…”
Mr. Zatezalo commented, “Fifty is already allocated, and if that means that we can only use forty-two of ours for that, we’d still be in, but we’ve met and discussed this at length, and we would still be in favor of assisting if it can be done.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Mark, does that me that you’re looking at the streetscape for downtown as we previously, as we understood to begin with was going to be one of the items you were going to look at.”
Mr. Zatezalo commented, “Yes.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Are you suggesting that that now is on hold pending some decision in regards to what happens to this money?”
Mr. Zatezalo commented, “Well, that is correct. I mean, we, we want to make sure that whatever we need to do to assist the City, and there are, in their priorities, given the fact that we weren’t given the grant money from the EPA to bring Cove School down. That’s precipitated all of this, and I understand that and the Authority, members of the Authority understand that very well. Whatever funds would be left over would be used for streetscapes. That’s already been allocated, so that’s, that is what our position is. To an extent that that helps the Council, you know, we’re happy to do it. Any other questions about the Southern District? We will continue, you know, looking at this, at the Southern District and what we might be able to do. Obviously, if we sell properties, those funds can be used for things like streetscapes or to buy additional properties to put the properties together to make sense, or whatever the Authority, in working with Council, decides is to the City’s advantage. The Northern District. I requested a copy of this report in writing was submitted to each of you and Gary was kind enough to get that done. There are also two maps that are with that report. We have had, the Northern District was certified as blighted in April, I believe, of last year, and in July we let a contract to come up with a redevelopment plan. That plan is still in process, but what’s happened is, EPD, and I think in there it might say EDP, it’s EPD, Pittsburgh, are the consultants that worked on the plan. What they have done is come to us, and we had a meeting with whoever could make it and the ArcelorMittal people and anybody else who was interested. I invited, we had a Brownfield’s Conference in West Virginia Northern where I invited anybody that was there to come to hear what the draft redevelopment plan was. The consultants have given us two maps which you have. One is a map of an industrial transportation redevelopment. The other is a commercial and residential plan. Ok. I can give you a long and short of it. EDP has done a lot of work redeveloping islands in the Pittsburgh area, and it you go up and look at Washington’s Landing and places like that, they’re very nice places. And, they thought that you, we should have the opportunity to look at Brown’s Island as a residential area. And, so, I can tell you, the big difference between the plans is there is a bit more residential area on the mainland, and pretty much all of, of Brown’s Island would be residential/commercial property. The second one is frankly more appealing to the Redevelopment Authority, and I’ll tell you why in a minute, and it may be for ArcelorMittal as well. The second would be to have the properties in the downtown and the island be commercial/industrial, and that means manufacturing and that type of thing. And, also to be done in consort with the transportation, rails and the ability to have some docks and port, a port facility. I can tell you one thing that stuck out in this, in this report was that there would be 5.2 million square feet of commercial space available in that area, which to me is very appealing, and that does not include the parking spaces that they already accounted for as part of their plan. You can see the parcels that they had, and I asked them if that, those parcels are cast in concrete, and they said absolutely not. And, it also ties in with improvement of the bridges over Brown’s Island so that you can link with Weirton and Ohio a little better than what we can now. This, we have not settled on any options. We would like for you folks to take a look at that. You can get back to us with any input that you have. We’re more than willing to listen to anybody, as far as that goes. But, I can tell you for two reasons, we find that, we feel that it’s important to stick with transportation hyphen industrial, commercial. Because that makes best use of whatever already runs through our town and runs alongside our town. And, for another reason, and that is Arcelor is remediating the mill sites as we speak. They are in the process of remediating. When they’re done, they will be clean, certified clean, according to an industrial standard, which means they can be redeveloped and used for things like industrial and commercial properties. They will not be cleaned up and is not, I don’t believe, I don’t have their, their consent agreement with the EPA, they will not be cleaned according to a residential standard which is a bit tougher. And, you can imagine you don’t want people living in the areas where they might dig something up they shouldn’t. There’s a lot more control over an industrial standard clean up where you can watch how things are developed rather than turning them over to residences and not seeing what happens afterwards. So, for those two reasons, we feel that industrial apportioned, the industrial option is better. Plus, let’s be frank, it also means more jobs. So, that is the Northern Redevelopment District. That’s what we have to date, and ArcelorMittal has offered to meet with us, and we’ve tentatively set up a quarterly meeting schedule. We have yet to come up with a first date yet, but we’re working on it. I have been in contact with them, particularly the real estate people, CB Richard Ellis, who are handling it for Arcelor. And, they’ve been responsive whenever I’ve called them. Future work. Those are the two zones that we have. In order for the Redevelopment Authority to work on anything in the City of Weirton, we first have to certify the area as needing redevelopment. If there are areas that the Council feels should be looked at for redevelopment so that we may apply for federal funds to do certain aspects of redevelopment or apply for say state funds and that type of thing, we will first have to certify the areas as needing redevelopment. If you have any of those type of areas in the back of your mind and you would like to look would be we have a lot to do in the Northern and Southern Districts, but we’d be more than willing to entertain that. And, as we’ve been told by our previous consultants, an area certified for redevelopment can be as small as one building or as large as the Southern and Northern Redevelopment Districts. So, that’s basically what my report is. Any other questions, I’ll entertain them at this time.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Thank you Mark.”
Ralph Barone 1045 Barone Drive, Weirton, WV: Re: Rental Ordinance Mr. Barone commented, “Good evening Mayor, Council. First, maybe I should just bring it up and let the Council, number 20 on your agenda. It has ordinance to remove 35 mile per hour speed limit on all sections of North 12th Street. From what to what?”
Mayor Harris commented, “It’s 25 through the whole City.”
Mr. Barone commented, “Well, I’m saying it’s not in here. I was just a little concerned from what to what. I mean, I don’t care. It just didn’t state. It didn’t give a full detail on here.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Yes. If they take the 35 out, then it will just be 25 through there.”
Councilmember Miller commented, “There’s already 25 mile an hour signs there. It’s in conflict.”
Mr. Barone commented, “I agree. Nothing concerning. It’s just that to say from what or to what, you know.
Mayor Harris commented, “Ok.”
Mr. Barone commented, “I understand now. Is Council going to not do anything about number 4 on the agenda tonight?”
Mayor Harris commented, “Number 4?”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “It’s tabled.”
Mr. Barone commented, “The rescinding of that ordinance.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Yes. They’re going to table it.”
Mr. Barone commented, “Well, I mean, I wanted to say something for it.”
Mayor Harris commented, “You could go ahead and say something.”
Mr. Barone commented, “Ok. I mean, I didn’t know since you stopped it. Mr. Mayor and Council, I just wanted to express on behalf of myself that I’m of course totally opposed to the rental ordinance for the following reasons. One, why should the landlords pay for an outside contractor to inspect property that I own, or any landlord owns when we all pay taxes, or the taxes to the County which the City gets a percentage of, to employ personnel such as the inspections department and code enforcement. And, I think that the inspections department and code enforcement are to really to see that properties whether owner occupied or tenant occupied are kept in reasonable condition. You as Council I think with this type of ordinance has really put a damper on possibly ownership and development of property. Now, just to go one step further. The problem I think that you tried to get resolved with that ordinance is, the problem is the tenants, not the landlords. We have a state statute, and I think Vince will verify that. It’s actually Chapter 37, Article 6, Section 30 and there’s a few sections, and what it is it’s a landlord to deliver premises, duty to maintain premises in a habitable condition.”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “Fit and habitable.”
Mr. Barone commented, “Yes. With respect to residential property, I don’t want to do the whole thing. I’ll just bring up this. A list, maintain the leased property in a condition that meets requirements of applicable health, safety and fire housing codes, unless the failure to meet those requirements is a fault of the tenant or a member of his family or other person on the premises with the consent. In other words, make, and a landlord shall make all necessary repairs to keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition unless said repairs are necessitated primarily by lack of reasonable care by the tenants. And, it goes on to the members of family or other persons. And, then it goes into none of these provisions of this section shall be deemed to require the landlord to make repairs when the tenant is in arrears of payments. This is, I mean, you’re willing, that’s the code, says you can get the whole thing. Then it defines, it gives a definition also of multiple housing. In multiple housing units the landlords must keep clean and safe and repair all common areas. Then it defines multi housing units. But, I, well I’m trying to also say that I really honestly believe that this ordinance, proposed, well, the ordinance that passed and now you’re declining whether to rescind it or not is really preempting state law as far as I’m concerned, but legally. I may be wrong, but that’s my opinion as an attorney. And, of course, we all don’t make. I just wanted to cite this code section, and I think everybody has to agree that we also own properties, and I can tell you, one on Marland Heights, I mean different areas we have, no matter what, some tenants tear properties up and some of them don’t. We’ve got tenants twenty years, do a beautiful job. We’ve had them shorter than that. They just tear them up. We’re constantly replacing carpet and all, but it’s the landlord defining, how you define habitable, to maintain premises in a fit and habitable condition. But, again, I think it’s really and truthfully the tenant that the problem is the tenants, and again also with this state law I feel that we, you are tying to preempt the state law, because we have a state law and also you in the city have employees to enforce code, enforce the code. But, if there’s any other thing, that would be it. Thank you very much.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Thank you Mr. Barone.”
Pam Makricosta 3445 Orchard Street, Weirton, WV: Re: Ms. Makricosta commented, “Good evening everybody. I’m just an average person that lives downtown, and I work downtown, and I care about the city, so It’s just going to be a multiple set of points I just want to talk to you about. Just to tell you a little bit of my concerns and just express some concerns that people that maybe aren’t as, you know, other people are a little bit more timid to come and speak to you, so I just thought I would speak. First of all, the nomination form for the Weirton Hall of Fame. I think it’s a great idea that you’re having a hall of fame. But, the area was a city before 1947 when it became incorporated. And, when you just, are you aware of what I’m talking about, the nomination forms?”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Yes. Yes. Yes.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “So, anyhow, we work at the library, and we do research on historical figures. We have names of people for each one of those six specific areas of endeavor, but so many of them are left out because you’re leaving out such a big part of our history. The City of Weirton as an incorporated entity truly was 1947, but there were people that made such rich contributions to our city before this time, and you’re leaving out a big portion of the city, its history. So, I don’t know how I would go about it or if you would choose to go about this, but I don’t know that it should be such a narrow period of time, and if there’s a way to rescind the thing that says, ‘have distinguished themselves for the city since the city was incorporated in 1947,’ I would like to see that happen. This is just my opinion, but I express the opinion of many people that come in and out of the library. And, you know, we’ve been passing out the forms, and everybody goes, ‘well, what about this person, what about that person, what about this person.’ And, the other point was the section that says they have to have lived in the city for at least five years. Now, this is just a rhetorical question, ok. What is somebody lived in the City of Weirton, and as a child they were taken out of the city when they’re four years old or four and a half years old, ok, and then all of a sudden they become some famous person? Let’s say they become the President of the United States. It’s possible. Or, maybe they come up with some medical breakthrough. Because, they haven’t lived here for five years, then this person would not be qualified to be in Weirton’s Hall of Fame. So, I’m just asking you to consider lifting some of these restrictions. I mean, if, it should say that they were born in the City of Weirton. And, we were discussing Pearl Buck is one of the most famous West Virginians, but she lived in West Virginia for a very short period of time. I think like at three months her family took her back to China. So, then, if that was the case, she wouldn’t even qualify if she was, you know, born in Weirton. I mean, she didn’t live, at least, five years in Weirton. So, these are just sort of rhetorical questions that are important because you’re eliminating so many people that did so much for the city, and would not even qualify to be honored. And, so that was my first point.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Let me just touch upon that if I could since I’m the individual that brought this before Council.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “Oh. I think, we think it’s great.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Thank you.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “But, we just think it’s limited.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “And, I appreciate your points. The, we had a subcommittee who spent four months and met multiple, multiple times. And, the points that you’re raising were well thought of and discussed within that group. Even with that discussion, it was the recommendation of the committee, the study committee, to put the, put forth the, or the requirements as is currently now is the case. In addition to that, that document was given to every Council member for their review for two months, and we voted on it twice. So, you’re points are well taken. I just want to assure you to the best of my ability that we gave that a considerable amount of review and discussions. But, like everything you do, you have to have boundaries and you have to have timeframes. Although I understand your point, at this point in time, you know, we’re beyond all of that, and we’re now in the stages I announces earlier to get hopefully our first group of nominees nominated and hopefully selected, so that we could make the announcement by May. But, I appreciate your thoughts, but I don’t, I think at this point in time we’re beyond that, and I can’t see any basis at this point. It is a City of Weirton Hall of Fame. I appreciate there are people in the 20s and 30s when this was not and incorporated city, but this is a City of Weirton Hall of Fame.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “True, but there was an area of the city that was called Weirton even before the incorporation.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “But, it wasn’t a city. It wasn’t a city. And, this is the Weirton city, the City of Weirton’s Hall of Fame. And, supported by and monies will be coming from the city to support this. But, I appreciate your comments. I just want to let you know that this subject was discussed in nauseam, and it was the committee’s, it was the study committee’s recommendation to the Council, Council’s review, approved it, and as we have said multiple times, we’ve got to get out of the habit of always revisiting everything and going back multiple times. But, and, but let me just say on behalf of the committee, I will share the comments with you, with them. We meet on the 17th of this month, and I will share it then.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “Thank you.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “You’re welcome.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “It’s just that it seems like there’s no chance of changing it.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “I think that’s a fair statement.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “I mean, you know, that’s very sad for this area. But, that’s my opinion.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Yes. I understand that.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “It’s just me.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Thank you.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “You’re welcome, and thank you for your…”
Mayor Harris commented, “Councilman, you need to invite her to the meeting and let her…”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “No, she’s, she’s invited, she’s welcome to come.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “But, no, who knew that the meetings were even happening. I mean, you know, ok. Don’t worry about that. Let me just go on. Ok. The last two, what shall we call them, you know, we’re always bringing in all of these people to speak about revitalization of the area, and we’re always bringing in these professionals that, you know, are paid to come in and to speak. They take a look at the city. They discuss all these plans, and many of those plans were funded, of course, with our tax dollars. You know, pretty much every administration has had a plan that was funded. And, I’m not for funding any more plans or people that are coming in. That’s just my opinion. I think the group of our elected officials, people, average people and business people should have like a public forum when they come in where you can come in and have a voice. The last two women that were brought into the City of Weirton that discussed ideas of revitalizing the area, both of them specifically said, and I’ll quote. It says, ‘The people need to have a voice in the community, the people, not just the power brokers. People need to have a voice as to what the economic development plans are going to be.’ She specifically, one of them, two of them, afterwards said that had it been discussed in the public forum where the people, the average person, could come and speak, what is to be done with Cove School, you know, tear it down, don’t tear it down. And, then, if it’s torn down, do the people have a voice to say, ‘this is what I would like to see there.’ Ok, not just a group of people. It needs to be an open meeting. Ok. Both of those women said those things to a group of community leaders. I just, you know, was there representing the museum that day. And, that needs to be done. I mean, the people need, she, both of them said that the people need to buy into whatever the economic development ideas are that the City has, because when the people buy into them, then you have support from them. They get ideas. They go and they help get the dollars. You know, it would be a nice idea that the people could have a voice. And, I’m asking that before you decide to tear something down that happens to be historic, I know we’ve talked, you know, to different people about this, let the people have a voice. Have an open forum where people can come in if they want to have it torn down, they can say, ‘tear it down.’ If they want to have it reused for something else, let them speak. Then afterwards, at least the people would say, ‘we had a chance to say what we felt.’ This way, nobody has a choice to, nobody has a chance to say what they feel. Like Cove School. Like, let’s say, they pool, Marland Heights Pool. More people would like to see the pool open. I’m just listing a few things that people, general people, would like to see done. Ok. So, that’s just, that’s just, these are just things that I wanted to say, and I haven’t been able to come to meetings very often, so I just wanted to say that. And, the other thing was, honestly, I feel that the bridge, you know, the Fort Steuben Bridge. I know it’s scheduled to be torn down, but you need to consider that for our safety that it needs to stay up as long as it can be up because, you know, whenever the new bridge has an accident on it, they close it, and you have to go all the way down to Market Street, which they want to tear down too, or you have to go all the way up to the Newell Bridge. So, I mean, somebody needs to look into that too. That’s just my opinion, and I appreciate the chance to come and speak to you about the things that I feel towards these.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Thank you very much.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “Thanks. But, I really think you need to have an open meeting where people can come and speak to tell you what they feel, you know. Thank you.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Thank you.”
Unknown commented, “We have had open meetings and forums for years.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Yes. We had to have open meetings for our public to know that. I do believe with one of your comments about studies, and I do believe the majority of Council here, we believe the same thing, that we’re paying too much money, and we’re doing studies after studies that tell us the same thing. And, we all here believe the same thing that you believe.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “It’s like, bring the people together. Pull out those three studies that have been done, and say we can do this, we can do this, and we can this, and just, you know.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Ok. Thank you.”
Ms. Makricosta commented, “You’re welcome.”
Mr. DuFour commented, “May I please. Ma’am, I see where you’re coming from and I don’t disagree with some of your points. I know I sat and many of these people around this table sat in repeated meetings for over a year on their part, more for some of you, regarding Marland Heights Pool, which regrettably did not come to positive conclusion in the thoughts of some, but incredible opportunity was extended there. And, as regarding Cove School, I think again it’s another issue that’s been discussed for years and years. I don’t know if there’s much left to say, and I’m saying that on my part. As for looking at all coming together to work on these issues, I agree. Now, you just heard a report from the Redevelopment Authority and it’s not conceptual. These are the actual things they are working on. Those meetings are quite open to everyone to attend. Certainly you or any other citizen are welcome, because I go to them all too. And, we’d like to see more citizens. We’d really like to see more citizens attend. But, I think some of those issue we had, we hashed ad nauseam when we were there. But, I think some of the issues that are brought to the Redevelopment Authority, they’re doing a ground up, and they would be very interested in hearing from everyone. Mark, I hope I’m not speaking out of turn. Thank you.”
OLD BUSINESS
Ordinance No. 1585 (Second Reading) Amending Article 2, Article 8 and Article 9; Table 1. Permitted Land Use Table of the Unified Development Ordinance as recommended by the Weirton Planning Commission.
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Marsh. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. 1586 (Second Reading) Amending Ordinance No. 1313 which establishes the salaries of municipal employees of the various departments within the City of Weirton General Fund.
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Fijewski. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. 1587 (Second Reading) To rescind Ordinance No. 352 which established a no parking zone for a distance of ten (10) feet across from the driveway at 3125 Orchard Street.
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Marsh. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) To rescind Ordinance No. 1569 for the registration and inspection of rental housing units within Ward IV, City of Weirton, WV (Tabled during the April 30, 2008 special meeting of council. Remained on the table during the May 12, 2008 and June 09, 2008 regular meetings of Council.)
The item was not removed from the table. NEW BUSINESS
Ordinance No. (New) To establish a dedicated residential disability parking space at 3729 Marlamont Way for Kimberly Ganoe.
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Miller. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) - Emergency Reading To establish one-side of street parking on the 3700 block of Marlamont Way; on a trial basis only for a three (3) month duration; on the east side of the street; on Tuesday mornings between the hours of 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Dalrymple. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) - Emergency Reading To extend the current no parking zones on the east and west sides of Putnam Lane at its intersection with Culler Road by an additional twenty (20) feet.
Motion was made by Councilmember Fijewski, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) - Emergency Reading To extend the current no parking zone on the east side of Gardner Avenue from its intersection with Pennsylvania Avenue by and additional fifteen (15) feet to bring it to a total of thirty (30) feet.
Motion was made by Councilmember Fijewski, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) - Emergency Reading To extend the current no parking zone on the south side of Miller Avenue at its intersection with Colliers Way by an additional fifteen (15) feet.
Motion was made by Councilmember Fijewski, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) - Emergency Reading To extend the current no parking zone on the north side of Miller Avenue at its intersection with Colliers Way by an additional twenty (20) feet.
Motion was made by Councilmember Fijewski, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) - Emergency Reading To reduce the speed limit on the 4100 block of Washington Street by ten (10) miles per hour from its current twenty-five (25) miles per hour to fifteen (15) miles per hour.
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Dalrymple. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to increase the speed limit on South 11th Street (Powerhouse Road) from its intersection with Schwartz Street to its intersection with the utility road on the right by ten (10) miles per hour from twenty-five (25) miles per hour to thirty-five (35) miles per hour.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to establish a no parking zone on the south side of Sinclair Avenue across from where the alley between Heights Street and Schwartz Street intersects with Sinclair Avenue for a distance of fifteen (15) feet.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to increase the length of the no parking zone on the south side of the 3800 block of Woodlawn Way at its intersection with Euclid Avenue by ten (10) feet from fifteen (15) feet to twenty-five (25) feet.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to increase the length of the no parking zone on the south side of Franklin Street at its intersection with North 11th Street by an additional twenty (20) feet. (This is to the right side of the home at 105 North 11th Street.)
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to establish a no parking zone on the west side of North 11th Street across from its intersection with Franklin Street for a length of ten (10) feet. (This will be in front of 102 North 11th Street between the entrance sidewalk {mailbox} and the driveway.)
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to establish a stop sign at the south side of Fernwood Avenue at its intersection with Palomino Drive.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to rescind Ordinance No. 1368 which was established on January 13, 2003 to reduce the length of the no parking zone on the west side of Mason Street at its intersection with Webster Avenue from its current distance of forty-three (43) feet at the driveway of 157 Mason Street to the standard length of fifteen (15) feet from the intersection with Webster Avenue.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to establish a dedicated residential disability parking space at 171 Denise Drive for Joseph Fabianich.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to establish a dedicated residential disability parking space at 169 Hillcrest Road for Phillip Minor.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to establish a dedicated residential disability parking space at 129 Franklin Street for Roger Harbert.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to extend the current no parking zones on the north and south sides of Greentree Lane at its intersection with Kings Creek Road to a total distance of fifty (50) feet on each side.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to remove the no turn on red sign on Weir Avenue at its intersection with Pennsylvania Avenue.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Ordinance No. (New) Ordinance to remove thirty-five (35) mile per hour speed limit on all sections of North 12th Street.
Motion was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Resolution Authorizing the 2009 Per Capita Contribution to the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission ($4,694.53) (Sponsored by the City Manager)
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Marsh. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Resolution To enter into contract for the lease-purchase of four (4) 2009 Ford Crown Victoria police vehicles for the Weirton Police Department utilizing state contract pricing. (Stephens Auto Center, Danville, WV) ($22,548.00 per unit totaling $90,192.00)
Motion was made by Councilmember Fijewski, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Resolution Authorizing the acceptance of a contract for the Governor’s Community Participation Grant Program ($40,000.00 for the Weirton Thomas E. Millsop Community Center)
Motion was made by Councilmember Fijewski, second by Councilmember Ash. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Resolution To place liens against real properties for the costs incurred in the demolition of unsafe properties pursuant to Ordinance No. 250. (3417 West Street, James Granatonic, $4,522.63)
Motion was made by Councilmember Ash, second by Councilmember Fijewski.
Councilmember Marsh commented, “City Solicitor, we’ve talked about this, the difference between liens and judgments. Would it be appropriate at this point that maybe we put in here, instead of a lien, a judgment maybe?”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “We can say judgment lien. I’ve talked to the county clerk about it. We’ve been identifying these as lawsuits against individuals, not against properties. So, as long as that stays, they’re judgments and liens against individuals.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “What does that mean, what you are saying?”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “Well, it would be like this. If the clerk is accurate on what she is informing me, and I’ll verify that in the next couple of days, let’s say I own three pieces of property. And, so that, instead of a lien going against 200 Fairway, it goes against Vince Gurrera. It’ll go against everything that Vince Gurrera owns. I think, if the clerk’s accurate in what she’s telling me, I think everything that you guys wanted to accomplish is already being done, and that would just help her enforce it.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “So, does that mean you wouldn’t be able to sell any one of your properties until…?”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “It would mean that you would have lien against every single thing that you have. Yes.”
Mayor Harris commented, “You wouldn’t be able to buy, sell or anything. Correct?”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “That’s correct. Now, that’s what the clerk is saying that her understanding of how we’ve been filing things. I’m going over there and personally verifying it.”
Mayor Harris commented, “So, we’re going to know that some time in the next week.”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “We’ll definitely know surely next Council meeting.”
Councilmember Marsh commented, “Would you place that high on your list? After that number that I saw between this meeting and our last one, we could have torn down Cove School.”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “And, we’ve already, I think we’ve filed maybe about another twenty lawsuits last week against individuals.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Ok. Thank you Mr. Gurrera.”
The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to file an application with the West Virginia Department of Development for a loan to fund the installation of traffic signals at the U. S. 22 interchange with Three Springs Drive.
Motion was made by Councilmember Marsh, second by Councilmember Fijewski. The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “If I could. Gio, I just want to point out. You know, a lot of people in the community wonder what City Council does for economic development, and should this come to fruition in terms of us spending this money for the signal lights, it is a huge expenditure for this Council to approve in the neighborhood of roughly 300,000. And, that’s a very large investment that this Council is making in the hopes of economic development coming to this area. And, I just, if you think it’s worthwhile at some point maybe pointing that out to the community that this is an example of that. The Mayor announced recently about potential for two businesses coming into, you know, our community. And, this action here is central to that occurring, and that’s a point I hope we can get out to our community.”
Councilmember Marsh commented, “Yes. Plus, to exasperate on that a little bit. This is actually the process of starting the process. It doesn’t mean we’re getting a loan. It means we’re applying for a loan to see if we’re approved, and it also states in the resolution that we will continue with the process once development starts.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Correct. Whether the loan is approved or not, we will do whatever it takes to make sure that we get the Super Wal-Mart in, whether we borrow the money from the bank or it comes from the government incentive.”
APPONTMENTS TO VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
NONE
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
FIRE DEPARTMENT -
Chief Lashhorn commented, “Nothing additional to report.
POLICE DEPARTMENT -
Chief Marshall commented, “Nothing to report.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “Chief, I’d like to ask you, we’ve had a Captain’s slot open for probably what, seven or eight months now?”
Chief Marshall commented, “Yes.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “Are we going to get that filled someday soon?”
Chief Marshall commented, “No, sir. We don’t, I don’t feel that we need that position filled. Well, I’ve got it right now filled with a Sergeant at great savings to the City.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “When you say great savings to the City?”
Chief Marshall commented, “Salary.”
Councilmember Ash commented, “Ok.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Chief, how are the bike patrols?”
Chief Marshall commented, “They’re going very well, sir. We’re getting activity reports from our men every week on what neighborhoods they’ve been in. I’ve got them both assigned to one turn so that we will have a little extra manpower on that turn. And, we put them into different neighborhoods while they’re on daylight and afternoon turn. You know, we used them extensively this weekend for the festivities.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “And, how are they being received throughout the community?”
Chief Marshall commented, “Great. We’ve got a lot of good feedback from the community.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Thank you.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Also, Chief, just to let your guys know that they’re doing a great job as far as getting the drugs off the street. Every day we open up a newspaper and watch on TV, and I see Ricky Grishkevich here. There’s always s drug bust in Weirton, and we just want to thank you for everything you guys do for us.”
Chief Marshall commented, “Thanks.”
PARK BOARD –
Mr. Weigel commented, “I apologize for not having the report ready. I just returned to work last week, and before I could get it done our computer network has crashed over at the Community Center. You will have it this week if I have to come and type on Gary’s computer.”
Mr. DuFour commented, “You’re certainly welcome. We’re glad to have you back.”
LAUGHTER
Mr. Weigel commented, “I’d also like to thank everybody’s cooperation in helping with the Renaissance Festival and with the parade. The, you know, it was especially important to have that timing of the parade get done and get done on time so that the governor could make his presentations and the bike run can go and everything like that. And, that had a lot of new officers on it, and it went slick. It went very smooth and, you know, no hitches at all. So, that was great. I appreciate that.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Terry, could you give us an update on the ballpark restroom situation?”
Mr. Weigel commented, “The, I hadn’t talked to Millicent about that, but she has informed the contractor of that. My hope is as soon as the Legion season is over, Gary, that they will be in and get that (unintelligible). They only have a couple weeks left.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “I guess my point for Council’s information is that we’re moving forward with it. The monies have been obtained for it. We’re moving forward with it, and you hope to have it done by, what, September?”
Mr. Weigel commented, “Yes. Before, we’ll be done. Because, this fall the schools will be able to start with it and play with it. The money has all been approved through (unintelligible).”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Thank you.”
PUBLIC WORKS –
Mr. Brown commented, “Mayor, I’m just happy to report that Carl Kelley Paving is paving in Weirton.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Thank you.”
Mr. Brown commented, “My observation today is they’re doing a great job. They’re moving pretty good, and checking back in my office with staff, there was no complaints received at Public Works. The public has been very cooperative, and we certainly appreciate it.”
Councilmember Dalrymple commented, “They did Mayfair today and did a very good job and very quick very thorough. The only complaint that I did get was the residents are concerned about when Water and Sanitary will be up to raise the manholes.”
Mr. Brown commented, “Well, you’ll have to ask them that.”
Councilmember Dalrymple commented, “I understand. But, other than that, everything went off very smoothly and they were very appreciative to finally getting moving.”
Mr. Brown commented, “I appreciate the Councilman’s remarks about my people, and I’ll pass it on. Thank you.”
Mayor Harris commented, “Thank you.”
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “John, I know Ronnie is not here, obviously, but since he and I have been talking about this a good bit, I see he’s coming to closure on the park on 11th Street. And, again, on his behalf, again, I think you people did a great job in your department and everyone who was involved in that. And, on behalf of Ronnie, and I think all of us, we thank you for that.”
Mr. Brown commented, “Thank you.”
CODE ENFORCEMENT –
Mr. Lamp commented, “Nothing from inspections.”
Mayor Harris commented, “You guys are doing a good job out there.”
MARY H. WEIR PUBLIC LIBRARY –
No one was present to represent the library.
FINANCE DIRECTOR
TREASURER’S REPORT
Debbie Swanson provided the treasurer’s report for June 2008:
Beginning Cash Balance: 762,048.07 Interest on checking: 298.70 Deposits: 706,462.82 Investment Draw Down 0 Disbursements: (1,154,853.84) Ending Cash Balance: 313,919.75 Beginning Investment Balance: 870,967.73 Withdrawals 0 Ending Investment Balance 870,967.73 Petty Cash Fund: 800.00 Total Cash and Investments Available: 1,185,687.48
Ms. Swanson stated that the interest was not in to date yet and that it would be updated for next month. She stated that there were no bills for approval.
Councilmember Fijewski commented, “Is that the carryover?”
Mr. DuFour commented, “I think that’s going to be my next question too, because there was a question asked of me in a workshop. I know it’s early in July. You just completed the fiscal year. When will we have our final numbers? I want to, we want to verify our carryover.”
Ms. Swanson commented, “Well, there’s a lot of, there’s a lot of money out there from the service fee, for the April, May and June quarter, and they have until the end of July on that. So, that’s considered April, May and June monies, and it’s not all come in yet. So, I don’t have a guesstimate on…”
Councilmember Marsh commented, “You’re talking about the two dollar fee?”
Ms. Swanson commented, “Yes. Yes.”
Councilmember Marsh commented, “Ok.”
Mr. Gurrera commented, “That’s due July 31st.”
Ms. Swanson commented, “Yes. So, it should be substantial yet coming in.”
Motion to approve the financial reports and approve all department administrative reports was made by Councilmember Marsh, second by Councilmember Fijewski.
The motion carried by majority, 5/0.
Motion to adjourn the meeting after the closing prayer was made by Councilmember Dalrymple, second by Councilmember Ash.
The motion to adjourn passed by majority, 5/0.
ADJOURNMENT
With no further business before this July 07, 2008 regular session of the Weirton City Council the meeting was adjourned after the closing prayer.
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