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ELKINS -- The final Elkins City Council meeting of the year will address reappointments of positions, fund budget revisions, rules of use for the City Hall parking lot and more.
Tonight's City Council meeting will be the last meeting of 2024. It's agenda includes 11 items, including seven resolutions. The meeting will begi at 7 p.m. at the Phil Gainer Community Center and will be livestreamed on Elkins City Hall's Facebook.
One of the first items on the agenda will be a resolution that would reappoint Elkins City Clerk Sutton Stokes to his position. Resolution 1800, according to Stokes, is part of his biannual appointment.
"The Elkins clerk serves a two-year term, starting each Jan. 1 of odd-numbered years," Stokes told The Inter-Mountain. "So (the clerk) must be reappointed during December of each even-numbered year."
In August, Stokes was named the 2024 West Virginia Municipal Clerk of the Year at the West Virginia Municipal League Conference.
Resolution 1806 will also deal in reappointments, as it pertains to "reappointing members of various boards and commissions."
Several resolutions on the agenda will deal with budget revisions for the 2025 fiscal year, such as Resolution 1801, which has revisions for the General Fund Budget; Resolution 1802, which has a revision for the Coal Severance Fund Budget and Resolution 1803, which will have a revision for the General Fund Budget SAO.
Stokes said these revisions are coming at the halfway point of the 2024-2025 fiscal year, as "actual spending and new needs have become clearer."
The City Council will also consider adopting rules for use of the City Hall parking lot with Resolution 1805. Stokes said there had been some issues throughout the year with people leaving and storing vehicles for extended periods in the parking lot, particularly D&E students who lost their parking privileges on the D&E campus.
"These are being proposed to better ensure that the lot is mainly used for its intended purpose, i.e., parking by users of downtown, whether visitors, employees of downtown businesses, customers, etc., and not by people simply storing vehicles long term," Stokes said.
The council will also be hearing updates from City Operations Manager Michael Kesecker on the recovery and construction work at Elkins City Hall. Currently, City Hall is closed for the foreseeable future for restoration and recovery work after it faced a sewage overflow incident on Aug. 31 of this year, which flooded the building's basement and first floor, including the Elkins City Police Department.