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Wheeling council approves multiple procurement ordinances, grant agreement and budget revision
Summary
At its June 15 meeting, Wheeling City Council adopted ordinances to convey property to Ohio Valley ADC, approved multiple equipment and chemical purchases (including a $999,929 dewatering system for WPCP), authorized a trail‑connector grant agreement, and adopted Budget Revision Number Four to FY2025‑26.
Wheeling City Council on June 15 unanimously approved a slate of procurement ordinances, a grant agreement and a budget revision in votes recorded during the meeting.
Key actions at a glance
- Conveyance of property: Council adopted an ordinance authorizing conveyance of property located at 521 South Penn Street to the Ohio Valley ADC.
- Water Pollution Control Plant purchases: Council consolidated readings and approved ordinances authorizing expenditures for routine chemicals and procurement for the Water Pollution Control Department (WPCD), with vendor line items and amounts announced by the clerk. One major capital procurement listed was $999,929 to Esmo Corp (Mogodor, Ohio) for dewatering equipment to be charged to the 2025 water bond.
- Water treatment plant chemicals: Council approved multiple ordinances consolidating readings 5–13 to purchase treatment chemicals for the water treatment plant, listing vendors and amounts (including ferric chloride, powdered activated carbon, sodium hypochlorite and other chemicals).
- Vehicles and equipment: Council introduced and approved spending of $117,564 to Whiteside of St. Clairsville, Ohio for four 2026 Chevy Trailblazers for building and planning, and $143,590 to Stephenson Equipment, Inc. for a JCB backhoe loader for the operations department.
- Parks and facilities: Council approved Demdale playground recreation equipment from GameTime (Charlotte, N.C.); the manager said the vendor offered a 50% discount that required contract execution by June 26 and council granted a second reading and later approved the ordinance.
- Grant agreement: Council adopted a resolution authorizing an agreement for a grant from the West Virginia Division of Highways for the Wheeling Heritage Trail Connector Project (a state‑funded recreational trails project to better connect downtown to the trail system).
- Budget revision: Council adopted Budget Revision Number Four to FY2025‑26; the city manager had clarified earlier in the meeting that what initially appeared as a $334,000 increase netted to a 0% change to the overall budget after offsets.
Votes and procedure: Most items were moved, seconded and adopted during the meeting with the clerk recording 'Yes' at roll calls; the meeting record as read aloud shows no recorded roll‑call tallies by individual councilmember names beyond agreement (i.e., approval recorded as 'Yes'). The council consolidated multiple ordinances for efficiency and approved them in grouped votes.
What to watch next: The dewatering equipment purchase for the WPCD (charged to the 2025 water bond) and the Demdale playground contract (deadline to sign June 26 to secure the discount) are operationally time‑sensitive and may require follow‑up reporting on implementation and invoices.
