Brooke County Commission approves property transfer, personnel moves and multiple funding allocations

At its Feb. 27 meeting the Brooke County Commission approved a slate of routine but consequential actions, including property transfers, personnel changes, funding allocations and administrative motions.

Dissolution and property actions: The Commission voted unanimously to dissolve the Opioid Committee. Commissioner Andrew J. Thomas moved and Commissioner Thomas R. Diserio seconded a motion to give the City of Wellsburg the property at 840 Main Street (the old probation office); a purchase agreement or deed will be prepared. The Commission also approved directing staff to prepare a lease agreement for the WVU Extension Office to continue occupying space at 840 Charles Street.

Personnel and EMS items: The Commission approved Director EMS/EMA Greg Moore’s request to move Racheal Roller from part-time paramedic to full-time effective March 16, 2026. The Commission also approved hiring Matthew Alexander as a new part-time paramedic with a start date of March 16, 2026, pending background and drug screening. Separately, the Commission approved a service agreement with Stryker for an EMS power cot and power load system at $3,710.70 annually and noted a promotion in the Sheriff’s Department: Grant Retton to corporal effective March 1, 2026.

Public-safety funding and estate matters: The Commission approved All-County Fire Protection funding requests including a $4,179.53 second allocation insurance reimbursement to McKinleyville Volunteer Fire Department and a $5,718.00 payment to the City of Weirton for PPE gear (direct pay to vendor). The Commission approved a petition by David F. Cross to appoint Erica Conti, Esq., as administrator of the Estate of Vernon F. Smith and to amend the real-estate appraisement; once the appraisement is amended, the petitioner asked to close the estate.

Budget, audit and other business: The meeting record notes an audit year-ending June 2025 with a stated cost of $38,120.00 and an in-house budget transfer of $4,200.00 for the Circuit Clerk. The Commission placed a hazardous-waste permit notice for Beazer East, Inc. on the public shelf and took the Lee Day Report Center FY 26/27 $30,000 grant match requirement under advisement for upcoming budget discussions. The Commission also recorded letters of interest for the vacancy created by Commissioner Andrew J. Thomas’s pending resignation (nominees recorded) and approved invoices and checks across county funds as listed in the minutes.

The meeting concluded after a motion by Andrew J. Thomas to adjourn passed unanimously. The minutes record that Feb. 27 was Commissioner Thomas’s last meeting; his official resignation date was recorded as March 2, 2026.