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Votes at a glance: Berkeley County Commission approves consent agenda, bond releases, exonerations, appointments and annual administrative items
Summary
At its Jan. 9 meeting the Berkeley County Commission approved the consent agenda including multiple bond releases, approved personal property exonerations, appointed a zoning board member and adopted several administrative items including the holiday calendar and IRS mileage rate.
The Berkeley County Commission recorded several routine and substantive votes during its Jan. 9 meeting. Key outcomes included bond releases for multiple Middle Creek Manor phases, approval of personal property exonerations, an appointment to the board of zoning appeals and the adoption of routine administrative items.
Highlights of actions and outcomes (motions seconded and passed unless noted):
- Approval of the Jan. 9, 2025 agenda: Motion made and approved by voice vote.
- Consent agenda: Commission approved the consent agenda, which included a stop payment/cancellation check for the clerk's finance office and other routine items.
- Bond releases: County engineering recommended and the commission approved several bond releases for Middle Creek Manor phases and lots, each tied to county BCP/LOC numbers as presented by the engineering department. (Engineering recommended releases for Middle Creek Manor phase 2, phase 3b final plot and phase 3 lots as listed in the clerk’s materials.)
- Personal property exonerations (assessor actions): Larry Hess, the Berkeley County assessor, presented three taxpayer errors totaling $1,491.70 (leased vehicles reported in error) and a set of 12 office clerical personal property exonerations related to double-billed or keyed errors totaling $11,891.20. The commission voted to approve the presented exonerations.
- Appointment to the Board of Zoning Appeals: The commission appointed Dan Shorgy to the board of zoning appeals for a term shown in the record as expiring Dec. 31, 2024; the appointment motion was approved.
- Administrative items: The commission approved the 2025 holiday schedule (matching the governor’s list, including half-days on New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve) and adopted the IRS mileage reimbursement rate of $0.70 per mile for 2025.
- Bid opening (no award): A public bid opening was held for ammunition for the sheriff’s department (training and duty rounds). Four bids were solicited; three bids were presented at the bid opening: Keisler Police Supply Inc. (Jeffersonville, IN) total $12,269,439.60 (read as submitted), Widmer Public Safety Group (Tochesville, PA) total $104,798.20, and Mountaineer Custom Cartridge (Grafton, WV) total $124,850. The commission opened the bids; no contract award was announced at the meeting.
Votes noted in the record were announced by the chair as having the ayes; individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the transcript for most routine items.
