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Cabell County Commission approves routine business, hires and enters executive session
Summary
On Jan. 28, 2021 the Cabell County Commission approved its agenda, multiple hires and reappointments, purchase orders and a surety bond renewal, and held a closed executive session on opioid litigation that produced no recorded public action.
The Cabell County Commission approved its Jan. 28 regular meeting agenda and a series of routine administrative items, including hires, reappointments, purchase orders and a surety bond renewal, and met in a closed executive session on opioid litigation, the commission recorded.
The meeting, called to order by President Jim Morgan at 10:00 a.m., recorded Commissioner Nancy Cartmill and Commissioner Kelli Sobonya as present along with County Administrator Beth Thompson and County Attorney William Watson.
Among the approvals the commission adopted unanimously were the meeting agenda and the minutes of the June 11, 2020 regular meeting; acceptance of erroneous assessments, land consolidations and probate office documentation; and Purchase Orders #21-101596 through #21-101789. The commission also approved monthly payments for a county fuel card program and two handwritten checks to Unum ($7,084.41) and Guardian ($19,821.80).
The commission approved personnel actions and reappointments on unanimous votes. Motions approved included the hiring of Travis B. Endicott as a full‑time home confinement officer effective Feb. 1, 2021 at an annual salary of $32,500; the hiring of Todd Goudy as a full‑time assistant prosecutor beginning March 1, 2021; and EMT appointments for Jason Wayne Caltrider (per diem), Kady Inez Caudill (per diem) and Tyler Douglas Melson (full time). Reappointments approved were Nancy Cartmill to the Southwestern Community Action Council and Kim Cooper and Chad Nelson to the Cabell County Planning Commission. The commission also approved the 2021 renewal of a surety bond with City National Bank of West Virginia.
Votes at a glance: Endorsements below were recorded as motions and approved unanimously by the commissioners in attendance. - Approve Jan. 28, 2021 agenda and June 11, 2020 minutes — motion moved by Nancy Cartmill, seconded by Kelli Sobonya; outcome: approved. - Approve erroneous assessments/land consolidations and probate documentation — approved. - Approve Purchase Orders #21-101596 through #21-101789; monthly fuel card payments; handwritten checks to Unum ($7,084.41) and Guardian ($19,821.80) — approved. - Hire Travis B. Endicott, Home Confinement Officer, $32,500 annually — approved. - Hire Todd Goudy, Assistant Prosecutor, start March 1, 2021 — approved. - EMT appointments (Caltrider, Caudill, Melson) — approved. - Reappointments to boards and commissions (Cartmill, Cooper, Nelson) — approved. - 2021 surety bond renewal (City National Bank of West Virginia) — approved.
At 10:25 a.m. the commission went into executive session to discuss opioid litigation and returned at 11:25 a.m.; the transcript records no public vote or action announced following the closed session.
The meeting placed several public-service-district minutes and financial reports on the record and concluded with commissioners' representation reports and a general good-and-welfare period. No additional formal actions were recorded in the supplied transcript.
