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Wheeling council approves series of vehicle, equipment and service purchases
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Summary
Council approved multiple procurement ordinances covering two 1-ton pickups, a Ford F-250, a GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Trailblazer for water and operations divisions, telemetry and telehandler equipment, landscaping services, and fire protection gear; motions were moved and adopted with minimal discussion.
At its March 17 meeting, the Wheeling City Council approved a package of procurement ordinances to replace and equip city vehicles and to contract for services and equipment across several departments.
Key approvals included: $101,430 for two 2026 Ford Super Duty 1-ton pickups (Waltz and Wynne Ford Inc., Heidelberg, PA) for the operations division; $77,354 for a 2026 Ford F-250 (Bolts and Wynne Ford Inc.) charged to project, water and sewer funds; $45,561 for a 2026 GMC Sierra and $29,391 for a 2026 Chevrolet Trailblazer (Whiteside, Saint Clairsville, OH) for the water department vehicle replacement fund; $15,724 for a telemetry system (C2G Engineering Inc., Huntington, WV) for tank-level monitoring and alarms in the water pollution control division; $38,500 for a telehandler (ICR Equipment, Bel Air, OH); $90,222 for grass-cutting services with Top Notch Landscaping and Supply LLC (Wheeling, WV); and $76,563.23 for fire protection gear with Arnold Fire Equipment LLC (Honey Brook, PA).
During one procurement vote a council member asked what year the replaced vehicle was; the response given was “2007.” Otherwise the items were presented, motions to adopt were made and the council recorded votes approving the ordinances.
The transcript does not include detailed procurement specifications, contract numbers, or roll-call vote tallies for each item. Funding sources identified in the agenda included general funds, RCIP, project funds, water and sewer funds, CDBG and specific replacement funds where noted.
What happens next: City purchasing and the relevant departments will proceed with vendor contracting and equipment acquisition per the approved ordinances; specific delivery dates were not provided in the transcript.
