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2 new polling places named for city election

ELKINS — Elkins City Council has been informed of the new locations for the Fourth and Fifth Ward polling places for the June 10 city election.

At meeting room at the Wees Annex has been reserved to serve as the Fourth Ward polling place while the Old Brick Playhouse has been reserved for Fifth Ward, according to a memo to the council from Elkins City Clerk Sutton Stokes.

“Basically, we just have to change a couple polling places,” Stokes explained to the council during their Jan. 9 meeting. “There is a process to follow. The council will have to take action at a future meeting.”

In previous elections, the Fourth Ward polling place was in the Randolph County Commission meeting room at the James F. Cain Courthouse Annex; however, that room is currently being renovated to become a courtroom for Randolph County’s second Circuit Court Judge, Jaymie Godwin Wilfong. 

At the same time, the Municipal Courtroom in Elkins City Hall, which used to be the Fifth Ward polling place, is currently closed along, with the rest of the building, for the foreseeable future for restoration and recovery work after the building faced a sewage overflow incident on Aug. 31, which flooded the basement and first floor, including the Elkins City Police Department.

According to West Virginia Code §3-1-7, a polling place is allowed to be changed “whenever the public convenience may require it.”

Council will have till March 12, 90 days before the election, to officially make the changes. According to the memo from Stokes, the council will publish the first legal advertisement on Jan. 20 and plan to order the change, vote on the change and publish the second legal advertisement during their Feb. 20 meeting.

Five city council seats will be on the city ballot, including First Ward Council member Robert Chenoweth’s seat, Second Ward’s Lisa Severino’s seat, Fourth Ward’s Nanci Bross-Fregonara’s seat and Fifth Ward’s David Parker’s seat.

Elkins City Council will meet again on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Phil Gainer Community Center.

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