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Four representatives of the city of Moundsville -- Mayor Sara Wood-Shaw, Vice Mayor David Wood, Secretary Sara Jasenec and City Manager Rick Healy -- traveled this past week to Charleston for the OnTrac Award Ceremony. The four were presented with a Certificate of Recognition signed by Gov. Jim Justice for being designated as an OnTrac Community.
Healy said, "We also had the first official training for the program."
It was announced that Mayor Wood-Shaw and Secretary Jasenec would be the co-liaisons for the program.
"This is an exciting step forward for our Historic Business District," Healy stated.
There will be a site visit by officials the last week of April.
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At Wednesday's Moundsville City Council meeting, Healy stated. "We received our initial renewal increase from The Health Plan last week, and it was not favorable, and due to this we will be shopping the insurance this year."
Healy continued, "All employees will be required to complete a questionnaire regarding their health conditions for this to occur."
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The city's year-end report was presented to members of the Rotary Club, and a lot of good comments about the direction of the city and the report were received.
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Recreation Director John White and City Manager Healy met recently with Russ Hall to discuss the girls' softball tournament that Hall is organizing. The event will be called the "Moundsville Showdown" and will utilize all the girls' fields as well as having some games played at East End. More than 30 teams have already registered for the event. The impact of an event of this kind is huge and this will bring a large number of individuals to Moundville the weekend of June 14-16. The city thanks Hall for choosing Moundville as the location for this event.
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Citynet, Regional Economic Development Partnership, and the Marshall County Commission announced at Monday's meeting the awarding of a LEAD 3 broadband grant that will build 88 miles of fiber in Marshall County. The $9.2 million investment into Marshall County will serve 784 targeted areas (households) and 724 "other" addresses. "Targeted" means they do not currently have access that is above 25/3 mbps while "other" means access is less than 100/20.
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Carrie White, co-founder of Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Experts LLC presented a program at Monday's county commission meeting. The purpose was a three-year research and implementation proposal to identify early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators in Marshall County and to build a sustainable resource and support network for businesses and job creation. The desired outcomes include: discovery of early state entrepreneurs and innovators and the needs that they have or challenges they are meeting, increasing educational and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses over by 50% over the next three years, increasing growth of small businesses by two businesses per year, and increasing job opportunities by 12 over the next three years. The commission tabled the proposal and will make a decisions at a later date.
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Also at the commission meeting, two bids were awarded. Capital Business Interiors was awarded a bid for new sheriff's office lockers for $82,595 and JDE Construction was awarded the bid in the amount of $118,850 for renovations to the Assessor's Office. Both companies are based in Wheeling.
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Celebration of the Arts will take place Saturday, March 9, at the Grave Creek Mound Archeological Complex. There will be musical ensembles from band, choir, and strings from noon until 2 p.m., John Marshall Strings Quartet from 2-3 p.m., and the Cameron Jazz Band from 3-4 p.m. The annual art show will be held at 2 p.m., sponsored by the Cameron Art Club.