Wheeling City Council Meeting Summary - October 6, 2026

The Wheeling City Council met on October 6, 2026, to approve minutes and committee reports, receive the mayor's report, adopt unfinished-business ordinances, hear council and city manager reports, introduce new ordinances, and take one public comment.

Consent Calendar

• Previous meeting minutes were accepted as received by voice vote.
• Development Committee minutes from September 15, 2026, and Finance Committee minutes from September 15, 2026, were accepted as received.

Mayor's Report

• With council approval, the mayor appointed Reverend Timothy Crummit to the Hall of Fame Commission. Crummit introduced himself as a pastor.
• Council adopted a proclamation congratulating 29 Wheeling Park High School AP Scholars and five Wheeling Park High School senior semifinalists in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program. The proclamation noted the semifinalists were among 16,000 students nationwide competing for approximately 6,700 National Merit Scholarships.

Unfinished Business

• Authorized $19,000 with Mary Canine Services LLC of Norwich, Ohio, for a police narcotics canine and training, charged to West Virginia asset forfeiture funds.
• Established a no-parking zone on the west side of Highland Avenue.
• Established a no-parking zone at the corner of South Broadway Street and Delaware Street.
• Authorized crosswalks and appropriate signage at the intersections of Linwood, Cybert, and Carmel Road.
• Authorized a traffic signal near the intersection of Louisa Avenue and McLean Avenue.
• Authorized traffic signage for the truck route.
• Authorized $767,290 for wastewater treatment plant sludge dewatering improvements, described as the final part of the digester project.

Council Member Remarks

• A councilor raised e-bike safety concerns, saying e-bikes are being ridden at excessive speed and that somebody is going to get hurt. The councilor provided surveillance videos and suggested asking state delegates about a statewide e-bike rule to avoid different local rules. Another councilor agreed. The councilor said the goal is public safety, not banning e-bikes or over-regulating them.

City Manager Report

• The city manager requested two readings for the wastewater treatment plant lab air conditioning ordinance and the fire department aerial ladder truck repair ordinance. For the air conditioning unit, lower bids were not recommended because they did not meet specifications requiring corrosion-resistant piping due to hydrogen sulfide.
• Upcoming bid openings: the FEMA-funded I-470 ballfield and Grek'sville playground on October 23, and the Glenwood Road FEMA slip project on October 30. Work on the third Glenwood Road slip was nearing completion, with the road expected to open to full traffic by Friday.
• In response to a councilor's question, the city manager said the wastewater treatment plant's microorganisms had been lost several weeks ago but were re-established and fully operational; the city was working with the DEP to trace the discharge that caused the loss and was close to identifying it.

Petitions

• A petition regarding property maintenance status for 114th Street was received and referred to the office of the city manager.

Original Propositions

• An ordinance authorizing up to $20 million in aggregate principal amount of improvement revenue bonds, Series 2026A and 2026B, for facility improvements and related costs, was introduced.
• A motion was made to consolidate original propositions 2 through 8, covering CDBG-funded agreements with Russell Nesbitt Services ($80,000), Youth Services Systems ($42,500), Catholic Charities ($10,000), Family Service ($20,000), House of the Carpenter ($4,000), Seeing Hand Association ($5,000), YMCA ($5,000), and Wheeling Health Right ($25,000); $16,275 to Robinson Pipe Cleaning for sewer cleaning and televising; $327,561.99 to Alex D. Paris Contracting for the Brunettle Avenue Storm Sewer Project Phase One; a $22,660 transfer for arena club lighting improvements; and $198,000 to MG Architects and Engineers for police headquarters Sallyport and site development design services.
• The $27,372 lab air conditioning ordinance with E.G. Newman Company and the $81,576.25 aerial ladder fire truck repair ordinance with Sutton Corporation, among the consolidated items, received second readings and were adopted.
• Additional ordinances were introduced for $146,800 in water meter programming with Metron Burringer LLC, $350,428 in fire station exhaust system upgrades with the Agnet Group (reimbursed by an AFG grant), vacation of a 0.0287-acre unopened 12-foot alley, and $34,706.52 for software from SHI International.

Public Comments & Testimony

• Steve Seuler, a resident of 42 High School Avenue, asked the council to review and revise the vacant structure code and grant more authority to the Wheeling Historic Landmarks Commission. He emphasized the value of preserving and rehabilitating existing properties, citing the rehabilitation of 1069 Main Street, first listed in an 1874 city directory, acquired by the city in 2005 and sold to current owners in 2016. He also noted the Friends of Wheeling loan guarantee program used by that project and 30 others since 2015.

Key Outcomes

• Appointed Reverend Timothy Crummit to the Hall of Fame Commission.
• Recognized Wheeling Park High School AP Scholars and National Merit semifinalists by proclamation.
• Adopted seven unfinished-business ordinances, including the sludge dewatering contract and multiple traffic and parking measures.
• Accepted development and finance committee minutes from September 15, 2026.
• Referred the 114th Street property maintenance petition to the city manager.
• Gave second readings and adopted the lab air conditioning and fire truck repair ordinances.
• Introduced the $20 million bond ordinance and other new ordinances; the transcript does not record final votes on the remaining consolidated items.