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Wheeling council okays multiple spending ordinances including demolition, insurance, paving and police vehicle purchases
Summary
At the Aug. 19 meeting the council adopted ordinances authorizing a range of municipal expenditures — from demolition charged to ARPA to insurance renewals, paving, arena repairs and police vehicle and equipment purchases — with funds charged to identified departmental accounts.
The Wheeling City Council on Aug. 19 approved a slate of ordinances authorizing municipal expenditures across several departments, including emergency demolition, insurance renewals, street paving, arena repairs and purchases for the police department.
What the council approved: Among the ordinances adopted at the meeting were: - $17,400 to EJCO Inc. of Lansing, Ohio for emergency demolition at 1113 Ohio Street, charged to ARPA. - $177,358.13 to USI Insurance Services LLC for an excess liability workers' compensation policy, charged to the workers' compensation fund. - $20,057.92 to Blessner, Wharton, and Andrews Insurance LLC for cybersecurity insurance, charged across the general fund ($14,241.12), water ($3,209.29) and water pollution control division ($2,607.53). - $32,899 to Cast and Baker Corporation of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania for Eleventh Street paving (sales tax RCIP). - $165,000 transfer from arena RCIP to the Greater Wheeling Sports and Entertainment Authority for concrete stair and landing replacement at WesBanco Arena. - $284,871 to Jim Shorkey Auto Group for seven police vehicles and related equipment purchases and separate ordinances for vehicle outfitting and radios with Aircom ($133,006.55), Motorola Solutions ($33,350.01), and Northside Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram ($38,506) charged to the police department.
Other business: The council also adopted a resolution authorizing a lease with Mario and Patricia de Grassgres for a small parcel of city-owned land adjacent to 114 Main Street and 121 Kenny Street; the council noted the land has been informally leased to the adjacent property owner since the 1950s and said the parcel is "not useful to us" to maintain. Earlier in the meeting a public hearing on a related lease (referenced as the "Degasperis lease" on the agenda) produced no registered speakers.
Discussion and context: Most of the spending ordinances passed with no discussion recorded in the transcript; councilors moved and seconded the measures and the clerk recorded votes as approved. The clerk also reported a notice of annual report of pension funding revenue bonds and an application to operate a bridal club at 808 National Road.
Implementation and funding: The meeting record lists funding sources for each purchase or transfer where applicable (for example: ARPA for demolition and sewer bonds for certain wastewater projects discussed elsewhere). No amendments or procurement protests were recorded during the meeting, and no roll-call vote tallies by individual names were included in the transcript for these items.
What’s next: Contracts and purchases are to be executed by the city manager as authorized by the ordinances; specific delivery or installation timelines were not specified during the Aug. 19 meeting.
