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Brooke County Commission approves minutes, hires part-time EMT and shelter worker; reopens estate petition
Summary
At its Jan. 28, 2025 adjourned session, the Brooke County Commission unanimously approved routine minutes and several personnel requests, approved reopening an estate petition, noted a resignation and a board vacancy, took a senior-center budget request under consideration, accepted invoices and adjourned.
BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. — The Brooke County Commission met in adjourned session on Jan. 28, 2025, at the Brooke County Courthouse and unanimously approved routine business, including minutes, personnel hires and a petition to reopen an estate.
Commissioner Stacey Wise moved to approve the minutes from Jan. 28, 2025; Commissioner Andrew J. Thomas seconded and the motion passed unanimously among the members present. Commissioner Thomas R. Diserio was recorded as excused ill.
The panel voted unanimously to approve a petition to reopen the estate of Theresa J. Cross to address stock distribution, after a motion by Commissioner Thomas and a second from Commissioner Wise. The commission also approved a personnel request from Greg Moore, the county EMA director, to hire Joshua Moore as a part-time emergency medical technician at a starting rate of $21.50 per hour, with a start date of Feb. 16, 2025, pending pre-employment screening.
The commission recorded the receipt of a resignation from Richard Ferguson effective Jan. 10, 2025. It also approved hiring Rhea LaCuesta as a part-time, on-call shelter employee (20 hours per week), with a Feb. 16, 2025 start date pending pre-employment screening.
A budget request of $15,000 for FY25/26 from the Greater Weirton Senior Citizens Center was received; the commission said it would take that request under consideration. Minutes from the Brooke County Public Library (Nov. 24, 2024) were accepted and filed.
The minutes announce a vacancy on the Brooke County Ambulance Authority Board, noting that Susan Phillips' term will expire May 31 (year not specified in the minutes). The commission said it will allow two weeks for interested applicants to apply.
The county Property Compliance Officer requested the commission implement a $100 daily fine for properties not in compliance; the clerk was directed to place names of those who may need fines on an upcoming agenda. The commission also approved invoices and vouchers and ordered a set of checks covering multiple county funds as listed in the minutes.
There was a brief recording of condolences to the family of Joseph DiBartolomeo for his military and civic service and a public notice that trapping season runs through Feb. 28, 2025. Commissioner Stacey Wise moved to adjourn; the motion passed unanimously and the meeting closed.
The minutes were signed by Commission President Andrew J. Thomas and attested by Clerk Kimberly M. Barbetta.
