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Votes at a glance: Harrison County Commission approves festival funding, grants and personnel actions
Summary
At its July 16 meeting the commission approved a series of funding requests, grant acceptances and routine personnel actions, including festival support, nonprofit grants, and several state and federal grant acceptances.
The Harrison County Commission on July 16 approved multiple funding requests, grant acceptances and routine administrative actions. Key votes and outcomes follow.
Black Heritage Festival: The commission approved an allocation of $3,000 (motion carried) to support the Black Heritage Festival scheduled for Sept. 5 in downtown Clarksburg. The group had requested $3,500; commissioners approved $3,000.
Stars and Strides — mounted speech therapy scholarships: The commission approved a $4,000 allocation to Stars and Strides Therapeutic Equine Center for mounted speech-therapy scholarships. Rebecca Flanagan, executive director, described the program and said a licensed speech pathologist provides the therapy on horseback.
Grant acceptances and resolutions: - Ford Security Fund (courthouse cameras and intercoms): The commission approved acceptance of a West Virginia Ford Security Fund grant for courthouse security upgrades totaling $71,870 and authorized the president to sign the resolution. - West Virginia Community Corrections Fund FY24: The commission approved acceptance of $100,000 for Harrison County Community Corrections and authorized signatures. - West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (OEM): The commission approved acceptance of a FY24 grant of $96,000 to partially reimburse emergency-management salary/expenses and authorized signatures.
Volunteer fire department financing acknowledgement: The commission authorized the necessary approval under Internal Revenue Code Section 147(f) for Salem Volunteer Fire Department to proceed with proposed equipment financing; the commission noted this action does not make the county liable for the financing.
Other routine approvals: The commission approved payroll matters, requisitions, purchase orders and minutes and awarded a demolition bid for 720 Hood Avenue to Safeco (phase 1 mobilizing) and approved several travel requests and budget-revision items. The commission also scheduled a special meeting for July 29 at 10 a.m. to finalize budget carryover revisions and to discuss a master plan proposal for the Route 19 property and to revisit a proposed grant-writer position.
Votes: Each item listed above was approved by voice vote and carried without recorded roll-call tallies in the meeting transcript. Where dollar amounts were discussed the commission acted to accept or allocate funds as described.
