Wheeling council approves second reading for wastewater ventilation purchase, accepts minutes and introduces multiple water/sewer financing measures

Wheeling City Council on Sept. 16 approved a second reading to authorize $23,730 for replacement ventilation units in the bar screen room at the city’s water pollution control division and completed a series of routine votes while introducing a package of water and sewer financing and expenditure ordinances that will return for additional readings.

The council voted by voice on a motion to approve the purchase from TS Eliot Contracting LLC of Wellsburg, West Virginia for replacement ventilation units; the motion was seconded and approved. The meeting record shows multiple other original propositions were introduced, including a proposed issuance of up to $80,000,000 in combined waterworks and sewerage system improvement revenue bonds (Series 2025B) and related rate-setting ordinances; engineering and repair contracts for water distribution and treatment facilities; and an Oakley/Oglebay Park improvement revenue bond series 2025 (see “Votes at a glance”).

Those measures were presented as original propositions and will require subsequent readings or public hearings before final action. The council also accepted the Sept. 2, 2025 minutes and voted to receive planning…