City Council
Regular MeetingMorgantown, WV · May 21, 2024
Agenda
304-284-7439
MORGANTOWN
Morgantownwv.gov
CITY CLERK 389 Spruce St.
Morgantown, WV 26505
AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING
City Hall Council Chambers, 389 Spruce Street, Morgantown, WV 26505
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER:
2. ROLL CALL:
3. PLEDGE:
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
A. May 7, 2024, Regular Meeting Minutes
5. CORRESPONDENCE:
6. PUBLIC HEARINGS:
A. An Ordinance Amending Article 365 of the City Code providing for Off-Street
Parking
B. An Ordinance Repealing City Code Section 371.10 Prohibiting Solicitation of Persons
Traveling in Vehicles on Public Rights of Way
7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
A. Boards & Commissions
8. PUBLIC PORTION WHICH SHALL BE SUBJECT TO RULES ESTABLISHED BY
COUNCIL AND ADOPTED BY RESOLUTION:
9. SPECIAL COMMITTEE REPORTS:
10. CONSENT AGENDA:
A. Consideration of APPROVAL of (Second Reading) of An Ordinance Amending Article
365 of the City Code providing for Off-Street Parking (First reading 5/7/24)
B. Consideration of APPROVAL of (Second Reading) of An Ordinance Repealing City
Code Section 371.10 Prohibiting Solicitation of Persons Traveling in Vehicles on
Public Rights of Way (First reading 5/7/24)
11. NEW BUSINESS:
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A. Consideration of APPROVAL of (First Reading) of An Ordinance Amending the FY
2023-2024 Annual Budget of the City of Morgantown as shown in the Revised Budget
attached hereto and made a part of this Ordinance as the same applies to the General
Fund
B. Consideration of APPROVAL of A Resolution of the City of Morgantown, West
Virginia declaring its official intent to be reimbursed from the proceeds of Bonds to be
issued by the Morgantown Building Commission for expenditures in connection with
the Design, Acquisition, Construction, Furnishing and Equipping of Improvements to
Recreational Facilities located at Marilla Park in the City, made prior to the issuance
of Tax-Exempt Lease Revenue Bonds or other obligations
C. Consideration of APPROVAL of 2024 Street Improvement Project, Bid Award 2024-13
12. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT:
13. REPORT FROM CITY CLERK:
14. REPORT FROM CITY ATTORNEY:
15. REPORT FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS:
16. EXECUTIVE SESSION:
A. Pursuant to West Virginia State Code Section 6-9A-4(b)(9) to discuss matters related to the
acquisition and development of real estate in the 2nd Ward
B. Pursuant to West Virginia Code Section 6-9A-4(b)(12) to discuss matters protected by
attorney-client privilege
17. ADJOURNMENT:
For accommodations please call or text 304-288-7072
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Updated 5/16/2024
Boards & Commissions Vacant Position List
o Civilian Police Review & Advisory Board: 2 Vacant – (City Resident or Work within City)
1 – 1yr – 3yr term: 7/5/2023 – 7/4/2026
1 – 2yr – 3yr term: 7/5/2022 – 7/4/2024
o Cultural Arts Commission: 2 Vacant – City Resident
1 – 1yr-4yr term: 4/1/2022 – 3/31/2026
1 – 4yr – 4yr term: 4/1/2021 – 3/31/2025
o Fire Civil Service Commission: 1 Vacant – City Resident (City Manager Appointee)
1 – 4yr term: 7/1/2023 – 6/30/2027
o Fire Code Board of Appeals: 1 Vacant – City Resident (Legal, Building Contractor, Engineering/Architectural Design)
1– 3yr terms: 5/2/2022 – 4/30/2025 (Legal)
o Health & Wellness Commission: 1 Vacant – City Resident
1 – 3yr – 3yr term: 1/1/2024 – 12/31/2026
o Historic Landmarks Commission: 1 Vacant – City Resident
1 – 4yr – 4yr term: 11/5/2022 – 11/4/2026
o Human Rights Commission: 2 Vacant – City Resident & 1 Vacant – Administrative Liaison
2 – 2yr – 2yr term: 7/1/2022 – 6/30/2024
o “ICC” Building Code Board of Appeals: 2 Vacant (Architect/Engineer or Bldg. Contractor)
1 – 1yr – 5yr term: 5/1/2021 – 4/30/2026
1 – 4yr – 5yr term: 5/1/2024 – 4/30/2029
o Personnel Board: 1 Vacant – City Resident
1 – 3yr – 1yr – 3yr term: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2024
o Planning Commission: 2 Vacant – City Resident Ward Specific
1 – 2yr – 3yr term: 1/1/2024 – 12/31/2026 – 1st Ward
1 – 1yr – 3yr term: 1/1/2023 – 12/31/2025 – 3rd Ward
o Sister Cities Commission: 3 Vacant
1 – 2yr – 3yr term: 6/1/2021 – 5/31/2024
1 – 3yr – 3yr term: 6/1/2022 – 5/31/2025
1 – 1yr – 3yr term: 6/1/2023 – 5/31/2026
o Traffic Commission: 3 Vacant – City Resident Ward Specific
3 – 3yr term: 4/4/2024 – 4/3/2027 –2nd Ward, 4th Ward, and 7th Ward
o Tree Board: 1 Vacant
1 – 3yr – 3yr term: 11/15/2023 – 11/14/2026
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o Urban Landscape Commission: 2 Vacant (Landscape Design – Horticulture - Plant Health)
1 – 1yr – 3yr term: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2024
1 – 3yr – 3yr term: 7/1/2023 – 6/30/2026
o Ward & Boundary Commission: 2 Vacant – City Resident Ward Specific
2 – 2yr terms: 7/1/2023 – 6/30/2025 – 4th Ward & 7th Ward
o Woodburn Commission: 2 Vacant – City Resident
1 – 2yr – 3yr terms: 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2024
1 – 1yr – 3yr terms: 1/1/2024 – 12/31/2026
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Ordinance No. 2024-___
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE 365 OF THE CITY CODE PROVIDING FOR
OFF-STREET PARKING
The City of Morgantown hereby ordains that Article 365 of the City Code is amended as follows:
Sec. 365.01. Definitions.
For the purposes of this article, unless the context clearly otherwise requires, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given: respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Off-street gated parking facility means any parking lot or multi-level parking garage with an
installed access gate system for the purpose of regulating ingress and egress to the facility and
requiring payment for time parked prior to exiting that facility.
Off-street parking facilities means the areas of land in the City which are now, or which
may hereafter, be improved, paved, lighted and marked off in individual parking spaces, and
equipped with parking meters or payment systems for use in parking vehicles.
Parking means the standing of a vehicle upon any off-street facility provided therefor,
whether such vehicle is occupied or not, by an operator or otherwise, for a period in excess of
one minute.
Parking authority means the Morgantown Parking Authority, established by Council.
Parking meter means a device which shall indicate thereon the length of time during which
a vehicle may be parked in the particular individual parking space and which shall have as a part
thereof a receptacle or chamber for receiving and storing coins representing currency of the
United States of America, or tokens approved by the Parking Authority, and a slot or place in
which such coins or tokens may be deposited.
Payment system means any device, equipment, or service designated and used by the
Parking Authority to provide for payment for parking in Off-street gated parking facilities or
Off-street parking facilities, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing a central
pay station for a designated off-street parking facility and any software application accessed by
user devices to make payment for parking.
Vehicle means any device in which any person or property is or may be transported upon a
public highway, except such as are motivated or propelled exclusively by human power.
Sec. 365.02. Facilities designated.
For the purposes of this article, the off-street parking facilities that shall be subject to this
article shall be as follows:
(a) A parking lot already constructed at the corner of Spruce Street and Fayette Street
within the City.
(b) Such other sites as may hereafter be constructed and established by the Parking
Authority.
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Sec. 365.03. Designation of parking spaces.
(a) The individual parking spaces shall be set out and marked off in the off-street parking
facilities in the first instance by the Parking Authority, and such Authority shall thereafter
continue to mark off and designate such individual spaces, and the Authority, and its agents
and employees, are authorized and directed to keep each vehicle parked entirely within an
individual parking space.
(b) Any person using the off-street parking facilities shall park their vehicle by pulling it
forward into the designated parking space so that the vehicle is facing the parking bumper
or marked end of the space and the his vehicle is entirely within a designated parking space
in a direction facing the meter.
(c) No person shall park his or her vehicle anywhere within a parking facility, subject to the
provisions of this article, except in a designated public parking space.
(Ord. No. 05-15, 6-21-2005)
Sec. 365.04. Installation of meters; deposit of coins; overtime parking.
There shall be installed in the immediate vicinity of each individual parking space, in the
off-street parking facilities regulated by this article, a parking meter or payment system, and such
meter or payment system shall be under the management, supervision and control of the Parking
Authority, or a person designated by it.
Whenever a vehicle is parked in an individual parking space, where a parking meter has
been installed or a payment system is in use, the person parking such vehicle shall submit
payment by methods accepted by the parking meter or payment system designated for the space.
deposit one or more $.05 coins, one or more $0.10 coins, and one or more $0.25 coins of the
currency of the United States of America, or one or more tokens issued and approved by the
Parking Authority in such parking meter, depending on the time that such person desires to
occupy such individual off-street parking space.
No person shall cause, allow or permit any vehicle registered in the name of, in the
possession of, or operated by such person to be parked overtime or beyond the period of legal
parking time established for any individual parking space on any of the off-street parking
facilities subject to this article. Each additional hour that a vehicle remains in an individual
parking space after the prescribed time for parking has elapsed shall be deemed an additional
violation of this article.
Sec. 365.05. Establishment of parking rates.
(a) Council upon recommendation of the Parking Authority, shall, by proper resolution from
time to time establish, revise and change parking rates and determine the length of time that
parking is permissible under such rates in an individual parking space for which a meter is
installed in the off-street parking facilities regulated by this article. Notice to the public shall
be given setting forth the length of time for which parking is permitted, of the time therefor,
and the conditions thereof. Such notice may be placed upon the parking meter stand or in
the immediate vicinity thereof.
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(b) Council upon recommendation of the Parking Authority, may, by proper resolution from
time to time authorize, establish and revise and change parking rates for monthly parking permits
in and on off-street parking facilities. Sec. 365.06. Defacing or tampering with meters.
Sec. 365.06. Defacing or tampering with meters or payment systems.
No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open, or willfully break, destroy or impair the
usefulness of any parking meter or payment system, or associated equipment or facilities
including parking meter stand or coin depository installed under the provisions of this article or
any of the off-street parking facilities.
Sec. 365.07. Depositing slugs in meters.
No person shall attempt to access parking without making the required payment therefor,
including by tampering with or gaining unauthorized access to any payment system or depositing
in any parking meter installed on the off-street parking facilities regulated by this article any
slug, device, or metallic substance or any other thing as a substitute for a $0.05 coin, or a $0.10
coin or a $0.25 coin of the currency of the United States of America, or a token issued and
approved by the Parking Authority.
Sec. 365.08. Changes and readjustments.
As authorized and required by West Virginia Code Article 8-16, the right is reserved by the
City to change and readjust the rates or charges established from time to time so that the
revenues from all the municipal public automobile parking facilities of the City shall be
sufficient in each year for the payment of the proper and reasonable expenses of operation,
repair, replacements and maintenance thereof and also to provide for payment of the required
sums into the Parking Facilities Bond and Interest Redemption Fund so that the aggregate
amounts so paid into such fund from the revenues of such facilities shall be sufficient to
discharge the interest on and the principal of the revenue bonds heretofore and hereafter issued
by the City for account of such facilities, all as provided by the ordinances pursuant to which
such bonds have been or are to be issued.
Sec. 365.11. Immobilization of vehicles.
(a) When it appears to any police officer or parking enforcement officer that any vehicle in a
parking lot or garage operated by the Parking Authority has been so placed in the past so as
to result in two or more citations to the owner or driver which have not been properly
disposed of in accordance with the City Code, the officer may immobilize the vehicle until
the owner or driver has satisfied any existing and past violations in accordance with the City
Code, or until the vehicle has been impounded. The owner or driver of any vehicle which
has been immobilized shall, in addition to the fines and penalties provided for under the
provisions of this Traffic Code, pay the Parking Authority the sum of $45.00 as
reimbursement to it for administrative costs associated with said immobilization.
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(b) No unauthorized person shall move any vehicle immobilized pursuant to the preceding
subsection prior to obtaining a release thereof from either the Judge of the Municipal Court,
the Director of the Parking Authority, or the officer in charge at the City police station.
(c) Any person who damages any property of the City or the Parking Authority in an attempt to
remove or alter an immobilization device or by moving a vehicle which has been
immobilized pursuant to this section shall reimburse the City or the Parking Authority for
the cost of the damage.
Sec. 365.12. Gate and pull ticket violations.
(a) No vehicle shall exit any off-street gated parking facility without paying the required fee for
parking, including by means of a gate being physically lifted, by driving around a gate, or
by exiting through any unauthorized area that avoids use of a gate.
(b) No vehicle shall exit any off-street gated parking facility by means of a pull ticket which
has been modified or is different than that which was issued to the vehicle upon entering the
facility.
(c) No vehicle shall tailgate while exiting an off-street gated parking facility. For purposes of
this subsection, tailgate shall mean one vehicle following another vehicle so closely that the
tailgating vehicle exits through the gated area during the gate cycle for the vehicle in front
of it without using a paid parking ticket to exit.
(d) Violations of any of the prohibitions within Section 365.12 shall be subject to a penalty of
not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00. Parking Authority Enforcement Officers shall
have the authority to mail citations to a vehicle's registered owner who shall be responsible
for violations set forth in Section 365.12.
Sec. 365.99. Parking violations; penalty.
It shall be the duty of the Parking Authority, its agents and employees, to report:
(a) The number of each parking meter which indicates that the vehicle occupying the
parking space adjacent to such parking meter is or has been parking in violation of any
of the provisions of this article.
(b) The State license number of such vehicle.
(c) The time during which such vehicle is parked in violation of any of the provisions of
this article.
(d) Any other facts, a knowledge of which is necessary to a thorough understanding of the
circumstances attending such violations.
There shall be attached to each such vehicle standing in an individual parking space in
violation of this article, a notice to the owner or operator thereof that such vehicle has been
parked in violation of a provision of this article. Each such owner or operator may, within ten
days of the time that such notice of violation has been attached to such vehicle, discharge and
satisfy the penalty for violation of this article by depositing the sum indicated on the parking
ticket in a depository or receptacle placed for such purpose on the off-street parking facility, for
each violation of this article. Each such owner or operator who fails to so discharge the penalty
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for violation of this article within such ten-day period shall then pay to the Parking Authority as
a penalty for and in full satisfaction of such violation the sum of $10.00 for each violation, such
payment to be made within ten days after the time that such violation occurred.
An owner or operator of a vehicle violating Section 365.03(c) shall be subject to a penalty
of $50.00.
An owner or operator of a vehicle violating Section 365.12 shall be subject to a penalty of
$100.00.
This ordinance shall be effective upon adoption.
FIRST READING: ______________________ ______________________________
Mayor
SECOND READING: ____________________
______________________________
ADOPTED: ____________________________
CITY CLERK
FILED: ________________________________
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Sec. 365.09. Disposition of fines.
The fines or payments for penalty for violations of this article deposited by the owner or
operator of vehicles in the depository receptacle placed or located at the off-street parking
facility shall be collected regularly by the person designated to make the collection from the coin
boxes and the parking meters by the Parking Authority, and such fines or payments for violations
so collected shall be deposited by the Finance Director to the credit of the Parking Authority. All
other fines which are processed through the Police Court of the City shall be collected and
deposited by the Finance Director in the General Fund of the City.
Sec. 365.10. Collections from payment systems, meters, and fine boxes.
The Parking Authority shall designate persons to collect and account for payments
deposited in the coin boxes in the parking meters and also the fine boxes or receptacles installed
in the off-street parking facilities regulated by this article, and establish processes to collect and
account for payment received through authorized payment systesm, and deliver the same to the
office of the Finance Director.
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Ordinance No. 2023-____
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CITY CODE SECTION 371.10 PROHIBITING
SOLICITATION OF PERSONS TRAVELING IN VEHICLES
ON PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY
The City of Morgantown hereby ordains that Section 371.10 of the City Code is repealed, as
follows (deleted matter stricken):
Sec. 371.10. - Solicitation of persons traveling in vehicles on public rights-of-way prohibited.
(a) For purposes of this Code section, "solicit", "solicitation" or "soliciting" shall mean asking
for money or objects of value, with the intention that the money or object be transferred from the
occupant of a vehicle within a public roadway to the solicitor at that time, and at that place.
"Soliciting" shall include using the spoken, written, or printed word, bodily gestures, signs or other
means with the purpose of obtaining an immediate donation of money or other thing of value or
soliciting the sale of goods or services.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person, while standing in any portion of a public right-of-way
to solicit business, or contributions of money or other property, from any person traveling in a
vehicle within a public right-of-way; provided, however, that the foregoing prohibition shall not
apply to services rendered in connection with emergency repairs requested by the operator or
passengers of such vehicle.
(c) Having received a license or permit from the City to conduct solicitation, peddling, or other
municipal regulated activity within the City shall not constitute an exception to the solicitation
activities prohibited by this Code section.
(d) Any person violating this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a
minimum fine of $50.00 and a maximum fine of $500.00.
Severability is intended throughout and within the provisions of this section. If any section,
sentence, clause or phrase of this section is held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent
jurisdiction, then such judgement shall in no way affect or impair the validity of the remaining
portions of this section. This section shall be effective upon date of adoption.
This Ordinance shall be effective upon adoption.
FIRST READING: ____________________ ______________________________
Mayor
SECOND READING: _________________
______________________________
ADOPTED: _________________________ City Clerk
FILED: ____________________________
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Item 11A.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FY 2023-2024 ANNUAL BUDGET OF
THE CITY OF MORGANTOWN AS SHOWN IN THE REVISED BUDGET
ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART OF THIS ORDINANCE AS THE
SAME APPLIES TO THE GENERAL FUND.
The City of Morgantown hereby ordains:
That the FY 2023-2024 Annual Budget of the General Fund of
the City of Morgantown is amended as shown in the revised budget
(Revision 03) attached hereto and made a part of this ordinance.
First Reading:
___________________________
Adopted: Mayor
Filed:
___________________________
Recorded: City Clerk
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LGSD BR (Ver. 2020) REQUEST FOR REVISION TO APPROVED BUDGET Item 11A.
Subject to approval of the state auditor, the governing body requests CONTROL NUMBER
Fiscal Year
Ora Ash, Deputy State Auditor that the budget be revised prior to the expenditure or obligation of funds Ending: 2023-2024
West Virginia State Auditor's Office for which no appropriation or insufficient appropriation currently exists. Fund: 001
200 West Main Street (§ 11-8-26a) Revision Number: 3
Clarksburg, WV 26301 Pages: 1 of 1
Phone: 627-2415 ext. 5114 City of Morgantown
Fax: 304-340-5090 GOVERNMENT ENTITY
Email: lgs@wvsao.gov
Person To Contact Regarding Request: 389 Spruce Street
Name: Kevin Tennant STREET OR PO BOX Municipality
Phone: 304-284-7407 Government Type
Fax: 304-284-7418 Morgantown 26508
Email: kevin.tennant@morgantownwv.gov CITY ZIP CODE
REVENUES: (net each acct.)
ACCOUNT ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY REVISED
NUMBER DESCRIPTION APPROVED AMOUNT (INCREASE) (DECREASE) AMOUNT
Property Taxes - Current Expense
301-01 (Page 3-Net) 4,485,061 200,000 4,285,061
305 Business and Occupation Tax 14,500,000 750,000 15,250,000
#N/A
#N/A
#N/A
#N/A
NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) Revenues (ALL PAGES) 550,000
Explanation for Account # 378, Municipal Specific:
Explanation for Account # 369, Contributions from Other Funds:
EXPENDITURES: (net each account category) (WV CODE 7-1-9)
ACCOUNT ACCOUNT PREVIOUSLY REVISED
NUMBER DESCRIPTION APPROVED AMOUNT (INCREASE) (DECREASE) AMOUNT
410 City Council 79,086 2,500 81,586
412 City Manager's Office 990,821 20,000 1,010,821
414 Finance Office 1,237,972 7,500 1,245,472
420 Engineering 244,623 60,000 304,623
439 Data Processing 863,112 43,500 906,612
Contributions / Transfers to Other
444 Funds 6,134,722 350,000 6,484,722
569 Local Government Access Channel 316,052 16,500 332,552
706 Fire Department 7,807,007 50,000 7,857,007
#N/A
#N/A
NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) Expenditures 550,000
APPROVED BY THE STATE AUDITOR
BY: AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE APPROVAL
Deputy State Auditor, Local Government Services Division Date OF ENTITY DATE
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Item 11B.
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MORGANTOWN, WEST
VIRGINIA DECLARING ITS OFFICIAL INTENT TO BE
REIMBURSED FROM THE PROCEEDS OF BONDS TO BE
ISSUED BY THE MORGANTOWN BUILDING
COMMISSION FOR EXPENDITURES IN CONNECTION
WITH THE DESIGN, ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION,
FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF IMPROVEMENTS TO
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES LOCATED AT MARILLA
PARK IN THE CITY, MADE PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF
TAX-EXEMPT LEASE REVENUE BONDS OR OTHER
OBLIGATIONS
WHEREAS, Treasury Regulations Section 1.150-2 (the “Reimbursement Regulation”)
sets forth the rules for determining when proceeds of bonds or other obligations are deemed spent
for purposes of applying Sections 103 and 141 through 150 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the “Code”), including the arbitrage yield restrictions and rebate requirements under
Code Section 148, if the proceeds are used to reimburse expenditures made prior to the date of
issue of the bonds or other obligations;
WHEREAS, the Reimbursement Regulation requires that a declaration of official intent to
reimburse the expenditures (“Declaration of Official Intent”) be made not later than sixty (60)
days after payment of the “original expenditure,” as such term is defined in the Reimbursement
Regulation (the “Original Expenditures”), and that an allocation in writing evidencing use of
proceeds of a reimbursement bond to reimburse an Original Expenditure be made within eighteen
(18) months after the later of the date the Original Expenditure is paid or the date the project is
placed in service or abandoned, but in no event later than three (3) years after the Original
Expenditure is paid;
WHEREAS, The City of Morgantown, West Virginia (the “City”) wishes to take such
action as is necessary or permitted to comply with the Reimbursement Regulation;
WHEREAS, the City and the City’s Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners
(“BOPARC”) intend to request the assistance of the Morgantown Building Commission (the
“Building Commission”), pursuant to the provisions of West Virginia Code Section 8-33-1, et
seq. (the “Building Commission Act”) in the design, acquisition, construction, furnishing and
equipping of improvements to certain of the City’s recreational facilities operated and maintained
by BOPARC and located at Marilla Park, including but not limited to the construction of tennis
courts, a shelter, parking facilities, improvements to Marilla Center, a bike/skate park, restroom
and shelter facilities, recreational field green space, pickleball courts and a basketball court
together with all appurtenant facilities (the “Project”), and the financing of all or a portion of the
costs thereof through the issuance by the Building Commission of not more than $11,000,000 in
aggregate principal amount of lease revenue bonds, in one or more series (the “Bonds”); and
WHEREAS, the City and/or BOPARC expect to make Original Expenditures relating to
the design, acquisition, construction and equipping of the Project prior to the issuance of the Bonds
by the Building Commission;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF MORGANTOWN,
WEST VIRGINIA, AS FOLLOWS:
1. This is a Declaration of Official Intent within the meaning of Treasury Regulations
Section 1.150-2.
2. The City intends and reasonably expects that Original Expenditures made by the
City and/or BOPARC in connection with the Project will be reimbursed with proceeds of the
Bonds to be issued by the Building Commission pursuant to the Building Commission Act, in
order to finance costs of the Project, to fund a reserve fund for the Bonds, if funded from Bond
proceeds, and to pay costs of issuance of the Bonds and related costs, including the premium for
one or more bond insurance policies, if necessary. The Bonds are anticipated to be issued, in one
or more series, in the maximum aggregate principal amount of not more than $11,000,000.
3. The source of payment for Original Expenditures relating to the Project to be
reimbursed from proceeds of the Bonds will be cash dispersed from BOPARC’s Sales Tax
Account held at United Bank.
4. The Mayor and City Manager of the City and the Chairman of the Building
Commission are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to take any additional action
necessary to comply with the requirements of the Reimbursement Regulation so that Bond
proceeds used to reimburse expenditures which are the subject of this Declaration of Official Intent
will be deemed spent, including making an allocation in writing evidencing the use of proceeds of
the Bonds to reimburse an Original Expenditure within eighteen (18) months after the later of the
date the Original Expenditure is paid or the date the Projects are placed in service or abandoned,
but in no event later than three (3) years after the Original Expenditure is paid.
5. The appropriate officials of the City and the Building Commission, including
without limitation the Mayor, the City Manager and the City Clerk of the City and the Chairman
of the Building Commission, are hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver for and on
behalf of the City and the Building Commission, respectively, any or all additional certificates and
other documents and to perform all other acts they may deem necessary or appropriate in order to
implement and carry out the matters authorized in this resolution.
6. This Resolution shall become effective upon the date of its adoption.
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Item 11B.
Adopted this ____ day of _____________, 2024.
THE CITY OF MORGANTOWN,
WEST VIRGINIA
____________________________________
Mayor
____________________________________
City Manager
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CERTIFICATION
The undersigned, being the duly qualified, elected and acting City Clerk of The City of
Morgantown, does hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City
Council of The City of Morgantown at a regular meeting duly held, pursuant to proper notice
thereof, on ___________, 2024, a quorum being present and acting throughout, and which
Resolution has not been modified, amended or revoked and is a true, correct and complete copy
thereof as of this ___________, 2024.
By: _____________________________
City Clerk
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P: 304-284-7412
MORGANTOWN Fax: 304-284-7409
ENGINEERING & Morgantownwv.gov
PUBLIC WORKS 389 Spruce St.
Morgantown, WV 26505
Memorandum
To: A. Kim Haws, City Manager
From: Damien Davis, Public Works Director
Date: May 16, 2024
Re: Results from Bid Call 2024-13 – 2024 Street Improvement Project (paving)
Bids for the annual paving project were opened at 2:00 pm, on May 16, 2024. The results are as
follows:
CONTRACTOR BID AMOUNT
1. Mountaineer Contractors Inc. $962,612.00
2. Anderson Excavating, LLC. $792,840.00
3. Bear Contracting, LLC. $838,550.00
4. Parrotta Paving Co., Inc. $826,325.00
Public Works has reviewed the submitted bids for completeness and adherence to the Bid Call
requirements.
Based on the results above, we recommend awarding the project to Anderson Excavating, LLC.
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