The Beckley City Council met on August 4, 2026, for a regular meeting. The council approved the minutes from the July 21 meeting, heard public comments from five residents, discussed various community issues, and passed several ordinances and resolutions. All votes were unanimous.
Order. First item on the agenda is a reading and approval of the minutes for the July 21st, 2026 regular council meeting. May I have a motion to approve the July 21st minutes as presented. So moved. So move. May I have a second? Second. Were there any questions or comments from council on the minutes? No, then with that, uh all those in favor of approval say aye. Aye. If there's anyone opposed, say nay. Minutes are approved. Thank you, council. Next up is public comments. We've got five that want to be heard tonight. As always, please speak clearly into the microphone. I know we say this all the time. People can hear you fine and here, but on the internet we get so many complaints because people talk and then they they nobody can hear them online. So and I know we usually do have a lot of people listening in. And if you want to speak at public comments after our five speakers, if you're calling by phone, Dall star three to raise your hand. If you're connected by computer, click the hand icon on your participants panel, and we will recognize you after the five that's here tonight. Three minutes, Evan Dewey will keep a clock running when it gets down to 30 seconds. One of us will let you know, and please try to wrap up in that amount of time. Okay, Mary West, you're up first. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Back again. Same old same old, but a different day. So first thing, I would like to know why all this patching is going on in the city of Beckley. If y'all resurfaced these streets, you wouldn't have to do the patch, and they got to come back and repatch. But LaRue is beginning to look like to me, they have joined the drug people here in West Virginia. It's got more cracks than the people on crack got. So if you all can fix LaRue Avenue and the public parking on LaRue, some of it gravel, some of it dirt. It should be all asphalt. But it's looking ridiculous out there. So if you all can do that. The cops were called. I came up right after it happened. Then they allow kids that have been coming up there all summer with little toy gun things, and then they want to get mad with them all of a sudden after they have allowed it all summer and throw them out. You all need to do something about that park and get it the right way. Because we don't need to keep going up there hearing this kind of situation. Now, I don't know whether law enforcement reported to you all about the lifeguards trying to get the two kids to fight. Because it I mean they should be have some kind of parent or something with them at all times up there, but they're allowing them to come without it. Because I caught my grandson up there and I threatened to tear his little behind up. He's supposed to have somebody with him. So therefore, if you all can do that and get things better here in Beckley, because our children really don't have anything to do. That's about all they got really. So I would appreciate you all looking into those two items. 30 seconds.