Mayor:
We wanted to extend our appreciation to you for the eight years you served the City of Wheeling and its residents, and for leading the members of Wheeling Council to act on the following issues and initiatives during your tenure.
Thank you for:
- Acquiring the property where the former Ohio Valley Medical Center operated so no one else could purchase it for back taxes, strip it of everything valuable, and then allow it to rot away.
- For the expansions of the façade and other commercial and residential property improvement programs.
- Asphalting several of the municipality’s alleys as a part of the citywide paving program over the past few years.
- Continuing the two-decades-old evolution of downtown Wheeling.
- Addressing the facilities much needed by the city’s first-responder agencies.
- Increasing the number of overdue demolitions in the city.
- For implementing historical review criteria for dilapidated buildings before demolition.
- Redirecting federal CDBG funds and general fund dollars to replace out-of-date playground equipment and to improve those neighborhood gathering places for children and adults alike.
- Accepting the concept of the non-discrimination ordinance developed by the city’s Human Rights Commission and pushing it to passage.
- Understanding the value of working with the finest city manager in the state of West Virginia.
We definitely didn’t always agree, and often those disagreements caused silence instead of compromise, but your two-term commitment to our city is, by far, above and beyond what most would offer and we wish you luck in your future endeavors.
Thank you again and be well.
Sincerely,
Hopeful for Wheeling
