CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Clarksburg City Council will hold a 5 p.m. special meeting in council chambers to address demolitions in the city.
Clarksburg City Council will hold a special session Wednesday evening to discuss demolitions, the budget and requests regarding a brewpub.
Staff photo by Josiah Cork
Three different demolition projects are up for approval by council, one of which is an expedited demolition of a burned property on Washington Avenue.
“There’s nothing worse in a neighborhood than living beside of an old burned out house. So we wanted to get that expedited. I called the city manager after that Thursday night meeting to do whatever we need to do to get that house out of there. I think we owe it to the residents of Washington Avenue,” said James Marino, mayor of the city of Clarksburg.
“The first one is expedited, listed to waive competitive bidding. That’s the house that burned up on Washington Avenue. It’s a safety hazard right now, and it’s been expedited,” said Steve Pulice, interim city manager of the city of Clarksburg.
The remaining demolitions are two packages that will be for multiple properties each, which are going to contractors for demolition as soon as possible.
The demolition of a burned house on Washington Ave could be expedited at Wednesday's council meeting.
Staff photo by Josiah Cork
“The other demolitions are already pending. We’re just going to go ahead and include them in the special meeting so we can go ahead and make the awards (of the bids) now,” Pulice said.
“This is something that we’ve already went through to bid out. We know who the contract is going to be awarded to,” Pulice said. “We’re expecting it to be done in a very quick timeframe. The other two will take a little more time because they’re not going to be under emergency order, but we will award the bid. Typically when we do that, they’ll come back in a do those as quickly as they possibly can”
Also on the agenda is an item for the consideration of approval of the budget for Fiscal year 2023-2024 after some slight tweaks had to be made on a line-item level due to Public Employees Insurance Agency changes from the state.
“The overall numbers of the budget did not change. It’s just because of the PEIA funding issues. That kind of a raise and premium increases — we had been told early in January to prepare for a 9.7% rate increase and then the governor just signed the order over the weekend that reflects up to 20%, so that’s twice what we had prepared for,” Pulice said.
“That’s why we’ve kind of put the skids on the budget that we prepared because we had to go back and retool things. ... The amount of money we’re going to spend is the same. We just repurposed some line items,” Pulice said.
Discussion also will be held regarding the requests made by a proposed brewpub that was discussed at a previous council meeting.
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