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Cabell County Commission approves budgets, appointments and bond amendments; CCEMS receives national award
Summary
At its June 23 meeting the Cabell County Commission unanimously approved FY2016–17 budgets for emergency services and E-911, confirmed several board appointments and hires, adopted resolutions amending Marshall University Foundation bond documents, approved a Byrne JAG MOU with Huntington, and recognized Cabell County EMS with a 2016 Mission: Lifeline Gold Award.
The Cabell County Commission unanimously approved a package of administrative and policy items at its June 23, 2016, meeting, including multiple budget adoptions, board appointments, personnel hires and resolutions related to county bond documents.
President Anne Yon called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m. Commissioners Nancy Cartmill and Robert L. Bailey moved and seconded, respectively, a series of motions that passed without opposition. County Attorney William Watson reported on several estate and fiduciary matters early in the agenda. Watson said petitioners told the commission that parties had resolved their differences and asked that Sheriff Thomas McComas be removed as personal representative of the estate of John Adkins and that Audrey Kennedy be reappointed; Ryan Turner, speaking for the Sheriff, registered no objection. Commissioner Nancy Cartmill moved to remove Sheriff McComas and reappoint Audrey Kennedy; the motion passed unanimously.
The commission accepted the report and recommendation of Fiduciary Commissioner Steve Flescher in the matter of the Estate of Nancy B. Craig, after Flescher reported insufficient evidence to remove the current executrix.
Cynthia Keely, director of Mission: Lifeline at the American Heart Association, presented Cabell County Emergency Medical Services with the 2016 Mission: Lifeline Gold Award, saying, “the community should be very proud of Cabell County Emergency Medical Services and their well-educated and well-versed paramedics.” Gordon Merry, director of CCEMS, noted the service’s annual report was included in the meeting packet and offered to answer questions from the commission.
On fiscal and finance matters the commission approved two resolutions concerning the county’s Commercial Development Revenue Bonds (the Marshall University Foundation, Inc. project). Commissioners voted to authorize an amendment to the bond purchase and loan agreement addressing the treatment of pledge payments and to elect to retroactively apply recently enacted Treasury regulations to the 2010 bond series; both measures passed unanimously.
The commission confirmed three board appointments: David Amsbury, Esq., to the Cabell County Public Library Board (term July 1, 2016–June 30, 2021); Raymond Jordan to the Cabell County Solid Waste Authority (term July 1, 2016–June 30, 2020); and Connie Priddy to the Appalachian Emergency Medical Services Board (term effective immediately through April 27, 2019). All appointments were approved unanimously.
The commission approved two hires in the telecommunicator classification. Selena Gail Curry and Joshua Cory Young were approved as full-time per-diem telecommunicators, effective July 1, 2016, at a rate of $12.07 per hour.
Budget approvals included the FY2016–2017 budgets for Cabell County Emergency Medical Services, Cabell County E-911 Emergency, Cabell County Home Confinement, and the FY2016–2017 Special Funds Budget. The motions to adopt those budgets were moved by Commissioner Cartmill and seconded by Commissioner Bailey and passed unanimously.
Other consent and administrative actions included accepting multiple letters under West Virginia Code §7-7-7 for county entities, approving the quarterly federal excise tax return related to the PCORI fee, and approving a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Huntington regarding the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG).
The commission designated depositories for fiscal year 2016–2017 and approved an agreement concerning Parcels 05 130561 (Lot 20 Bellevue) and 05 130562 (Lot 21 Bellevue). The board recessed to an executive session at 10:35 a.m. to discuss litigation and reconvened at 11:25 a.m. with no action taken. After briefly tabling and then rescinding the tabling of purchase orders, the commission approved purchase orders #16-72691 through #16-73047 for all funds other than general county, with one exception noted for a general-county purchase order. Minutes from several local public service district meetings were placed on the record.
President Anne Yon adjourned the meeting at 11:30 a.m.
What’s next: No further actions or votes were recorded; the commission is scheduled to meet next at its regularly scheduled meeting.
