August 21, 2025 • 35 mins
Bridgeport Mayor Robert Matheny on the internal investigations going on in the city.
Delegate Joe Statler, R, Monongalia, 77, on the sanitary sewer issues in Blacksville.
Delegate Joe Statler, R, Monongalia, 77, on the sanitary sewer issues in Blacksville.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
A good Wednesday morning, and welcome to Talk of the
Town on AM fourteen forty f M one oh four
point five w A j r. Our producer this morning
is Ethan Collins and that number is eight hundred seven
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number three oh four Talk three oh four. Again that
number three oh four, Talk three oh four. The Election
Administrative Infrastructure wrapping up an educational seminar for the twenty
six primary in the Canaane Valley. Today, we're going to
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talk with Secretary of State Chris Warner. In just one second,
we've got Bridgeport City Mayor Robert Matheeni. He's going to
come to the program at about nine point fifteen and
explain the current status of some investigations that are going
on internally in the city. Then at nine point thirty
we're going to be talking with Joe Statler. There are
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some issues in Blacksville relating to the sewer system, and
we're also going to touch on the dust up Tucker
County over the two percent recreational tax that is now
a court case between Timberline Resort and the Tucker County Commission.
Will wrap things up with Montgelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes today.
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It is a wanted Wednesday. We'll hear about his featured
felons and also get a recap of the first day
of school, because I believe there was a little bit
of mayhem on the roadways that the sheriff will explain
to us right now. Secretary of State Chris Warner on
the program, Chris, good morning, How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Good morning, Mike. It's so great to be joining you
from our statewide election conference in Tucker Camp.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And you folks have been there, about two hundred or
more of you since Sunday. Tell us what you've been
covering during that time.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We've had an excellent turnout by all fifty five counties,
and I believe we had fifty three of our fifty
five county clerks, and you know that's where the real
work gets done in our elections. I'm referred to as
the chief Elections Officer, but these are the chief election
officers in each of their counties. And we, I mean,
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we covered everything from poll worker training and recruitment, absentee
voting training. We have an opportunity to hear from the
Election Assistance Commission, which is entity. Don Palmer made it
in yesterday afternoon, but we literally cover anything and everything
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we need to do to make sure that our clerks
are prepared. They have all the tools in the toolbox
that they could possibly need for the twenty twenty six
election that'll be here in just less than nine months.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Right now, Secretary of State Chris Warner is with us.
And now, Chris, I guess I'm wondering, is in the
wake of the legislative mandate to align elections, do any
of those questions maybe seep into the training.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We've discussed that the clerks are ready. I think the
thing that is going to require the most attention is mapping.
And again I'm sure you're referring to Mike. The fur
municipal elections will now be held in West Virginia about
twenty thirty two on our general election ballots, So all
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those municipal races. I think we just went through one
hundred and ten elections, you know, over two months this summer,
and those will now all be on the general election ballot.
But we have several counties that have already Putnam County,
for example, Brian Wood was telling me that they have
already started adding their municipal elections in Putnam County onto
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the general election ballot.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, what's the importance, I guess what should the registered
typical voter in the state walk away thinking about this?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
As far as the municipal elections, the.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Value the information that you're giving to the clerks and
their administrators to help these elections run smooth coming up.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
In May, I got them, Mike, I'm sorry. Yeah. It
all comes down to election confidence. We want the voter
when they go in into the voting place, the polling place,
to see a familiar face, for example, with the poll workers.
So it's it's very important to recruit those poll workers
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to work in their home area. They want to Voters
want to see either somebody their same age or a
pillar in the community, somebody that they know, a friendly space,
because this is not something that the federal government, uh
you know, is is running. This is poll workers from
the from the community working in their home precinct to
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run elections. And we find that voter confidence increases when
when that occurs. But we are looking for a you know,
a seamless process that allows you to get in, allow
you to conduct your business as far as voting for
your preferred candidate and being able to get out. See
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the ballot that is printed by our express vote machine.
Make sure that your votes are accurate and the machine
properly marks your ballot before you drop it into the
ballot box. And on election might we have unofficial results
and that's provided by a barcode at the bottom of
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the ballot. But that's not the final vote. It's ten
days later when the canvassinge occurs, the addit occurs, and
those ballots are checked. We hand count three percent of
all the precincts in the county to make sure they
match up to the unofficial results on election night, and
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when they do, then the election's certified if it's all
by more than one percent or the vote total and
a particular election changes by one vote then there's a
hand count of all the ballots in that county. And
we're very proud in West Virginia that every vote cast
has a paper trail, so we can go back and
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and look if need be, to make sure that accurate
results are reported.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Now, today is the third and final day of the conference.
What's on the agenda for today, Chris.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Today's an opportunity to share best practices and so we'll
we'll have some videos. We've started a poll worker appreciation event,
and we also have a voter's Hall of Fame that
we've seen just you know in Lewis County here recently,
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and those people that are voted in every election for
the last fifty years we recognized with a certificate and
that's that was a very rewarding day. But we're also
looking to see how we can thank and appreciate those
that work in the polls as well. And so that's
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that's schedule for today before we wrap up at noon.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, Secretary of State Chris Warner, Chris, definitely appreciate your
hard work and look forward to a smooth May primary.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Thank you very much, Mike.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Absolutely, you take care and have a good day and
enjoy the Canaane Valley State Park. Great place.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, we'll enjoy the view on the way out.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Absolutely, Okay, you take care of Chris. It is nine fourteen.
When we come back, we're going to welcome Bridgeport Mayor
Robert Mathene to the program. Bridgeport City Council held a
special meeting Tuesday night to address a pair of internal investigations.
We'll let the mayor explain.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Good Wednesday morning. It is nine cast in seventy four
in the University City. Bridgeport City Council met in special
session last night to take an up or down vote
on a couple of internal investigations. On the phone, we've
got the newly elected Bridgeport City Mayor, Robert Matheeni. Good morning, Mayor,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Good morning going?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Just signed, Thanks for having me on your show.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you on. Robert. I
guess first off, let's talk about or maybe explain what
these two investigations are.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Okay, Yeah, the investigation that we labeled Investigation A, as
presented in an open meeting by mister Ethenfeld last week,
it was an investigation that was requested by the city
due to a personnel matter and a letter that we
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had received on a possible cup coming legal action. So
that started the investigation, and as mister e Landfeld reported
in the open council meeting, during that particular investigation that
some things came up that spiraled into some possible improprieties
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with bidding process and pay to play bid type scheme
going on within our city workforce.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And now tell us what the result of the council
vote was, mayor well.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Last night I placed on the agenda for a special
meeting two items, one being Investigation A, which was the
initial investigation. As mister the Infelt stated in the open
meeting that that investigation was very near complete. I think
he stated that he had one more person that he
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would like to talked to. Then he needed to finalize
a report in written report form with conclusions and recommendations
on practices going forward as the city. And that's pretty
much what A was. That investigation was approved by counsel
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with the seven on that to go forward. So I
have already been in contact with mister Ednfeld today and
we're gonna as soon as possible get that portion of
the investigation restarted and completed.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Now investigation B that will be delayed. What's the reason
behind the delay and what is the focus of that investigation.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, you know, again, as mister Eventhel said in an
open meeting, that the investigation B will, if ever allowed
to go forward, we'll focus on many things. Using his words,
he was just a tip of the iceberg, and he
had very little information that he could provide at this time.
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On that that he felt that he needed some more
time to look into some things, to clarify or to
find some probable cause based on the suspicion of the
improprieties in the bidding process, and that he wanted to
continue that, and that he felt that, you know, a
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price of about twenty five thousand dollars would get us
to a point where we would at least know if
we need to turn that over to law enforcement authorities
for further investigation, if it was criminal violations versus policy
violation versus nothing at all, and then of course that's
absolutely what I was aving hating for last night, however,
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and it came to me as a surprise. I was
quite shocked when Recorder Murray came out and asked for
an amendment to that agenda item and the requested amendments
was to push that out until next week's regular meeting,
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where we could have further discussion.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
UH.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Again that that shocked me because I don't know what
more information we could get other than what you know
mister Dall told us in UH an open meeting. Of course,
by law, weren't allowed to discuss what transpires in executive session.
But I can't tell you that. You know that he
went in the executive session with us, and you know,
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everybody had plenty of time to talk. We talked, we
were an executive session. I think if you look at
the the minutes of the last meeting for for two hours,
were better. I felt when I left there at a
clear understanding exactly where we were and what needed to
be done. And so I was shocked and somewhat disappointed
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that I was blindsided like that by the reporter. We've
always had a great relationship. We talked, We talked Monday evening,
and I felt that, you know, it would have been
statesmans like for him to at least let me know, hey, Mayor,
I'm going to be offering an amendment to your agenda item.
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Of course, you know, I was shocked when they came out,
and I was shocked that the council that some of
their reasons was financial. I know that, you know, services
are high, especially legal services, and you certainly get what
you pay for.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We have other.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Matters in the city where we're paying attorneys similar fees,
and we have one case that we're paying I think
three hundred and twenty five dollars an hour on a
case that was estimated to be one hundred and fifteen
thousand at its totality considering going to the State Supreme Court,
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and we're already at one hundred We're already one hundred
and sixty four thousand, and we're not even scratched the
service on the first day. So I think it's very
I think we're comparing apples to oranges, and I just
don't know. I hope the intent of the Council is
what they say it is. I'm starting to feel that
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that doesn't quite pass the smell test, and I feel
before last night, I didn't feel that we were going
to find too much, but the actions and reactions last
night just with me didn't pass the smell test, and
I feel that there's a lot more that we.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Need to look into Bridgeport. Mayor Robert Matheni is with us,
and now, Robert, I guess I would just ask you,
outside of the financial concer earns, is there any other
speculation as to why maybe this amendment was brought up
and approved?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
You know, I don't want to speculate on that, Okay.
I think we just got to let it play itself
out and you know, the truth will come to light.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
May Robert Matheni is with us, and you know, Mayor
wh when you were elected, transparency was a priority for you.
And I think that with that in mind, there's a
couple of things working here because I think in the
in the long game here you're trying to lay the foundation,
a stable foundation for the next city manager to come
in and do his or her job. But you know,
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we got to get through this first. It's what it
sounds like.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well, we absolutely do.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
We can't.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
We're in a position our hands are tied in legal matters.
If we wanted to, we couldn't hire a full time
city manager at this point. I am working on some
avenues to look at professional retired interim city managers. That's
something that I'll be rolling out the Council in the
very near future. I think that at the utmost of importance,
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we have a great guy in Joe Shuttlesworth who's doing
a wonderful job, but you know, at what he's capable
of doing, and he has so many other responsibilities in
the city. I think we need to bring somebody in
that post that can focus on being a city manager
and that has had city manager experience and education. And
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that's one of the next things on my agenda as
I moved forward, is to try to get something done
there and a temporary means. And you'd mentioned that I
ran on transparency. We've put a couple of programs in
place that are of transparency nature, and as I said
here today, I will continue to advocate for transparency during
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my entire.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Term as marriage Bridgeport Mayor. Robert Matheni now Robert. Last
thing on the way out. Recently there was an announcement
of a new sixteen million dollar terminal or airport hangar
I'm sorry to be built at the North Central West
Virginia Airport. And you know, certainly the North Central West
Virginia Airport is the economic centerpiece of your area that
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just continues to grow and give back to the community.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It certainly is, and we are the hub of economic
development in West Virginia. We have so much going on
with the airport, with White Oaks and Charles Point, our neighborhoods,
our parks. We have so many great amenities and great projects.
And you know, we will get over this hub and
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we will continue to thrive. But for the life of me,
I cannot understand why we are the plans in a
lawsuit against the governor Secretary of Economic Community Development. Uh.
We we have received so much support and finding out
of Charleston. Uh. It just bewilders me. And that's another
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issue that I'm looking into, uh, to just find out
why we're in that lawsuit to begin with, and why
we're putting so much good money after bad money. Uh.
There's no way, Mike, that we're going to see any
resolution to that, to that lawsuit outside of the State
Supreme Court. And in my guess, we're going to have
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over half a million dollars in that And it's to me,
it's a it's a legislative issue, it's not an issue
for the courts.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, I'm sorry we're out of time, Mayor, but I
look forward to our next conversation. Thank you very much,
mayor thank you have a great day. Absolutely you two.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
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the Town.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Good Wednesday morning. It is nine thirty five. Coming up
later in the program, we'll spend a few minutes with
Mont County Sheriff Todd Forbes, and from Sheriff Forbes, we
will learn who the featured felons of the week are.
As a part of Wanted Wednesday, you can get ahead
start go out on the web at Montengelia Sheriff dot gov.
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And we're also going to talk to Sheriff Forbes about
an action that occurred yesterday with someone attempting or passing
a school bus. We'll get those details coming up later
in the program. Right now, we've got Delegate Joe Statler
with US Mont County Delegate representing the western end of
the county and got a couple of issues wanted to
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address with Delegate Statler. Good morning, Joe, how are you?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Good morning, sir. I am blessed as always, and I
am appreciative that I am not on the part of
your program that mister Forbes is addressing.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, I'm glad you are either, Jill. I've got to
be honest with you now, Joe. I guess that there
are some issues out in Blacksville and this is a
good opportunity to set the record straight. Tell us what
the current status of the mayor and city council is.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Well, I will tell you that to set the record
straight that the mayor Mary Dean in her council is
still in place. Actually met Monday evening about some of
the issues it's taking place in the city and they
aren't a good standing. I think it's a good and
I've known this group for years and I will tell
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you that graduate with Mary actually, and she's hard working,
and the council, it's all hard working council. It's just
like everybody else. They have concerns and some money issues
in this day and age, and a sowar system that
was put in and I believe in nineteen ninety three,
and it had some issues. And we need to find
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some funding to help them out, because a small community
like that can all you absorb all that. And they're
working on their issues within and now along with the
County Commission. I've been working with them. We're trying to
help them out and do as much as we can
to get that system corrected. But it is up and running,
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and the town council and the mayor is up and running,
and I believe everything's in good shape in Black Sail.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, good, Now, can you share with us any details
of what the sewer issues are.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
You know, it's nothing that has come to the point
where they drain over into the water system or anything
like that. It's just other small issues. They got what
you call the system as holding tanks, and occasionally the
honding tanks will get backed up. Now they do spill
over into the locations where they're at, and that's never
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a good thing because sometimes it goes, you know, into
people's yards and pumps goes down. There's a series of
pumps that they rely up on. And the school system's
actually connected onto this system at Claverytel High School, and
I talked to the superintendent, mister Campbell, and they agreed
to and they're actually pumping their holding tanks to make
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sure that they're doing everything they can to help the
city out to make sure this doesn't give them a problem.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
So it's I don't.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Want to say it's minor, it's not my yard. The
stuff's ever flowing into. But I will tell you the
city is addressing this. And they have a gentleman that
is on staff that sees too this, and I spoke
with him the other night, and I can guarantee you
that he is trying to stay on top of everything.
He has concerns how nineteen ninety three it was engineered
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differently there probably would be today. So how do you
fix some of those problems? How do you locate some
of the problems? And that all takes money for a
study to see how the system can be upgraded, and
simply don't have the money. And so that's where we're
coming in to try, with the commission and myself in
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the state to see if there's some way we can
find some additional dollars to help him out.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Telling good Joe Statler's with us. We're talking about some
issues in Blacksville with the sewer system. There, council and
the mayor are firmly in place. Nobody's quit, everybody is
on the job. The plant is certainly running. And you know, Joe,
we've seen a similar thing happen in Marion County in
the town of Worthington, and if it's any consolation between
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the state and local leaders, they are repairing that system
and bringing that system back. All though it is I
think it's going to end up costing them in the
neighborhood of one point two to one point three million
dollars well.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
And that again you have to have a study to
figure out. Now, their case is a lot different because
they are overflowing into the into the river, and that's
certainly not the case in black silk that is is
not going into the waterways to my knowledge anywhere, but
it does have an occasional overflows. It always has into
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some of the areas where the honing tanks are. And
anytime you've got electrical pumps and they have backup pumps,
but when you have those, there's going to be issues
as to where they can down and I'm not sure
they're all protected with the emergency generators for backups, you know,
when the power goes off, which has happened. As the
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engineer told me, this has been a crazy year for
heavy downfalls of rain and that's given them somewhat of
a problem and they're trying to figure that out. Where
is external water entering into the system and caused them
the more problems. So I don't think it's anything in
a system like this. It may not be out there
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across the state, the nation. It's just we've got to
find the problems and pick them.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And I guess the final question. I'm sure I'm not
the first one to ask you this, but is there
a state resource that Blacksville can tap into to help
them with this?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, that's certainly what we're looking for. And the first
thing you got to do, Mike, is figure out what
we're trying to address and how much money it's going
to take. I mean, it could be something that takes
millions of dollars. As you say, it's a system that
could require a lot. And answer your question, yes, there
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is resources out there. It's just like everything else, you've
got to stand in line waiting for that money to
be able to help it. And what we need first
is dollars to look at a study to even tell
what the major problem is that we're trying to address.
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And the County commission I've went to them and they're
working great with this. I will tell you Doctor Commissioner Bloom,
who represents the area also and they have been very,
very in the front of looking at this issue and
what can we do and what's the resources and offering
the help that they can offer in and so I
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feel that we're going to help them out there. And
I think that's part of what led the Council and
the mayor to be so frustrated it as to where
they might step away and lead their positions. They felt
a little bit of abandoned. They didn't know where to
turn to maybe get help and everything like that. So
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I think with the Commission and everything that we can
give them, I don't want to call it assurances at
this time, but I guarantee him that I'm going to
continue to work on this and see what we can
do to help them out.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Got a partner in the battle.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Well, I don't want to say what I've said, but
I've been working on this week in last week. It
started pretty much brought to my more to my attention
last week. But I guarantee you that I'm going to
stay working with him until we find a solution to this.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Okay, good deal. Mond County Delegate Joe Statler, Joe, can
we get a rain check on the EMS conversation? I
apologize for that.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
We certainly can. Okay, you have a good day, sir.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Absolutely. Delegate Joe Statler representing the western end of Montaguille
County certainly thank Joe. When we come back, we've got
Sheriff Todd Forbes. We're gonna be talking about the Wanted
Wednesday featured Felons, got another group of featured felons, and
we're also going to talk about the first day on
the roads, on the first day of classes for Montngellier
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County schools. It's coming up next on Top of the
Town AM fourteen forty FM one oh four point five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
A good Wednesday morning. It is nine eight of clouds
seventy four degrees in the University City and on the
phone we've got Montgelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes. It is
a wanted Wednesday. So I'd like to direct your attention
to Montenguelia Sheriff. Let me check double check that website
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before I find myself on the wrong end of the law.
Montaguelia Sheriff dot gov. You can go to that website
and follow right along with us. Sheriff Forbes. Good morning,
How are you?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Good morning, Mike? Doing great? But I gotta say I
got to have a little bit warning if you're going
to bring me in behind a legend, I mean delicate.
Stadler is a real warrior from Montague County. It sounds
like he's on a mission there in Blacksville. We'll do
anything we can do to help him. If that will
be of any assistants at.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All, Absolutely, absolutely, well, Sheriff. It is a wanted Wednesday
in the city of Morgantown and Montaguelia County. So who
are we looking for today?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Today? We have a few individuals that we haven't been
able to track down. The first is William Belt He's
wonderful Peloni fraud, several things associated with access device, computers
and things like that. The next lady by the name
of Lindsay Eddie. She's wanted for failure to appear on
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several occasions and trespassing. Darryl James Goodall wanted for felony,
obstructing and playing also some drug related charges. Aronde Michael
Lowe for larceny, auto tampering, burglary, and lastly, Brandon Tanner
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wanted for felony strangulation. So we look forward to getting
any tips and any help we can from the community.
As always, you know, this initiative was set up to
get some involved from the community and try to make
things as safe as we can, because the community's safety
is obviously our priority.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
How are we doing so far? How many of these
bad guys you've been doing about averaging maybe about five
a week on the list. How many are you picking up?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Well, we're doing pretty good. We're still about five hundred.
We only got one this week, so we're up to
eleven out of twenty, okay, which is still pretty good.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's awfully good, I might say. And once again, if
you see or know these people, the best thing to
do is to call nine to one one. Don't get
involved yourself. You can go out to the website Montegiliaseriff
dot gov. You can see pictures of these folks if
you need that information as well. Now, Sheriff, Yeah, exactly, yes. Now,
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the first day of school was on Tuesday, and you
were nice enough to come onto the program Monday at
nine thirty and give folks plenty of warning that all
you have to do is obey the stop arm and
the rules of the road and you won't get in trouble.
But I guess there was maybe one or two people
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that weren't listening bring us up to speed.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, I mean, it's really sad that we had to
talk about it in the first place. And it's even
more sad than we have to talk about the couple
people that were cited for passing school buses. Now, that's
just that's just bad business. So I did a little research.
You asked me, I wasn't exactly sure, but I wanted
to clarify for today. When you passed the school bus,
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the first offense is a mandatory loss of your driver's
license for sixty days, second event is six months, and
the third offense is a year's suspension of your driver's license. Now,
if somebody would get hurt in the act of passing
the school bus, this becomes a felony offense. So I
would hope that some folks around here would take it
a little bit more serious. The thing we're there to
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do is protect the safety of the kids, and I
just again, I can't believe we have to talk about this.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Mike, you know, Sheriff. I guess I'm glad that you
did bring this information to the program because I was
under the misunderstanding that this was primarily a severe points violation.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Well, that's true that there are some points and some
times come with that, but it is an automatic expension
of your drivers license.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And that and that is an immediate adjustment of your
personal life.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Sure. Yeah, there's maybe some guys you do the work
if they can't be responsible in the morn's on the way.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
All right, Well, I'm sure those patrols continue.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
They certainly do. We had We were out in full
force again today. We're going to be all week and
then we're hopefully we will will be able to slow
that down a little bit next week and just focus on, uh,
the safety of the kids at the school.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Okay, good deal, Uh, Sheriff Todd Forbes Sheriff definitely appreciates
your time this morning, and keep up the good work, sir.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Thanks, Mike, sir, absolutely take care of yourself, have a
safe day, and once again go out to Montaguelia Sheriff
dot gov. They've got a press release about the driver
sided for passing a school bus. His name Samuel Harvey
given and they lay out some of the circumstance answers
around that particular stop, you can take a look at
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that particular press release and then you'll be able to
take a look at the slate of the most wanted
felons on this Wanted Wednesday. That is Moneingilia Sheriff dot Gov.
Right now, cloud's seventy four degrees in the University City
Now Metro Newsaki Weather tells us for the remainder of
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the day, we're looking at mostly cloudy sky, sixty percent
chance of thunderstorms and I have eighty two and as
has been the rule not the exception this summer, if
we do have a thunderstorm, we could see some intense
rain amounts within those thunderstorms. We'll be back to wrap
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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number three oh four, Talk three oh four. The Election
Administrative Infrastructure wrapping up an educational seminar for the twenty
six primary in the Canaane Valley. Today, we're going to
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talk with Secretary of State Chris Warner. In just one second,
we've got Bridgeport City Mayor Robert Matheeni. He's going to
come to the program at about nine point fifteen and
explain the current status of some investigations that are going
on internally in the city. Then at nine point thirty
we're going to be talking with Joe Statler. There are
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some issues in Blacksville relating to the sewer system, and
we're also going to touch on the dust up Tucker
County over the two percent recreational tax that is now
a court case between Timberline Resort and the Tucker County Commission.
Will wrap things up with Montgelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes today.
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It is a wanted Wednesday. We'll hear about his featured
felons and also get a recap of the first day
of school, because I believe there was a little bit
of mayhem on the roadways that the sheriff will explain
to us right now. Secretary of State Chris Warner on
the program, Chris, good morning, How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Good morning, Mike. It's so great to be joining you
from our statewide election conference in Tucker Camp.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And you folks have been there, about two hundred or
more of you since Sunday. Tell us what you've been
covering during that time.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We've had an excellent turnout by all fifty five counties,
and I believe we had fifty three of our fifty
five county clerks, and you know that's where the real
work gets done in our elections. I'm referred to as
the chief Elections Officer, but these are the chief election
officers in each of their counties. And we, I mean,
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we covered everything from poll worker training and recruitment, absentee
voting training. We have an opportunity to hear from the
Election Assistance Commission, which is entity. Don Palmer made it
in yesterday afternoon, but we literally cover anything and everything
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we need to do to make sure that our clerks
are prepared. They have all the tools in the toolbox
that they could possibly need for the twenty twenty six
election that'll be here in just less than nine months.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Right now, Secretary of State Chris Warner is with us.
And now, Chris, I guess I'm wondering, is in the
wake of the legislative mandate to align elections, do any
of those questions maybe seep into the training.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We've discussed that the clerks are ready. I think the
thing that is going to require the most attention is mapping.
And again I'm sure you're referring to Mike. The fur
municipal elections will now be held in West Virginia about
twenty thirty two on our general election ballots, So all
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those municipal races. I think we just went through one
hundred and ten elections, you know, over two months this summer,
and those will now all be on the general election ballot.
But we have several counties that have already Putnam County,
for example, Brian Wood was telling me that they have
already started adding their municipal elections in Putnam County onto
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the general election ballot.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, what's the importance, I guess what should the registered
typical voter in the state walk away thinking about this?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
As far as the municipal elections, the.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Value the information that you're giving to the clerks and
their administrators to help these elections run smooth coming up.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
In May, I got them, Mike, I'm sorry. Yeah. It
all comes down to election confidence. We want the voter
when they go in into the voting place, the polling place,
to see a familiar face, for example, with the poll workers.
So it's it's very important to recruit those poll workers
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to work in their home area. They want to Voters
want to see either somebody their same age or a
pillar in the community, somebody that they know, a friendly space,
because this is not something that the federal government, uh
you know, is is running. This is poll workers from
the from the community working in their home precinct to
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run elections. And we find that voter confidence increases when
when that occurs. But we are looking for a you know,
a seamless process that allows you to get in, allow
you to conduct your business as far as voting for
your preferred candidate and being able to get out. See
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the ballot that is printed by our express vote machine.
Make sure that your votes are accurate and the machine
properly marks your ballot before you drop it into the
ballot box. And on election might we have unofficial results
and that's provided by a barcode at the bottom of
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the ballot. But that's not the final vote. It's ten
days later when the canvassinge occurs, the addit occurs, and
those ballots are checked. We hand count three percent of
all the precincts in the county to make sure they
match up to the unofficial results on election night, and
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when they do, then the election's certified if it's all
by more than one percent or the vote total and
a particular election changes by one vote then there's a
hand count of all the ballots in that county. And
we're very proud in West Virginia that every vote cast
has a paper trail, so we can go back and
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and look if need be, to make sure that accurate
results are reported.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Now, today is the third and final day of the conference.
What's on the agenda for today, Chris.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Today's an opportunity to share best practices and so we'll
we'll have some videos. We've started a poll worker appreciation event,
and we also have a voter's Hall of Fame that
we've seen just you know in Lewis County here recently,
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and those people that are voted in every election for
the last fifty years we recognized with a certificate and
that's that was a very rewarding day. But we're also
looking to see how we can thank and appreciate those
that work in the polls as well. And so that's
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that's schedule for today before we wrap up at noon.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Well, Secretary of State Chris Warner, Chris, definitely appreciate your
hard work and look forward to a smooth May primary.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Thank you very much, Mike.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Absolutely, you take care and have a good day and
enjoy the Canaane Valley State Park. Great place.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, we'll enjoy the view on the way out.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Absolutely, Okay, you take care of Chris. It is nine fourteen.
When we come back, we're going to welcome Bridgeport Mayor
Robert Mathene to the program. Bridgeport City Council held a
special meeting Tuesday night to address a pair of internal investigations.
We'll let the mayor explain.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
We are talking about your town. Now back to the
talk of the town.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Good Wednesday morning. It is nine cast in seventy four
in the University City. Bridgeport City Council met in special
session last night to take an up or down vote
on a couple of internal investigations. On the phone, we've
got the newly elected Bridgeport City Mayor, Robert Matheeni. Good morning, Mayor,
how are you?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Good morning going?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Just signed, Thanks for having me on your show.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you on. Robert. I
guess first off, let's talk about or maybe explain what
these two investigations are.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Okay, Yeah, the investigation that we labeled Investigation A, as
presented in an open meeting by mister Ethenfeld last week,
it was an investigation that was requested by the city
due to a personnel matter and a letter that we
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had received on a possible cup coming legal action. So
that started the investigation, and as mister e Landfeld reported
in the open council meeting, during that particular investigation that
some things came up that spiraled into some possible improprieties
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with bidding process and pay to play bid type scheme
going on within our city workforce.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And now tell us what the result of the council
vote was, mayor well.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Last night I placed on the agenda for a special
meeting two items, one being Investigation A, which was the
initial investigation. As mister the Infelt stated in the open
meeting that that investigation was very near complete. I think
he stated that he had one more person that he
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would like to talked to. Then he needed to finalize
a report in written report form with conclusions and recommendations
on practices going forward as the city. And that's pretty
much what A was. That investigation was approved by counsel
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with the seven on that to go forward. So I
have already been in contact with mister Ednfeld today and
we're gonna as soon as possible get that portion of
the investigation restarted and completed.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Now investigation B that will be delayed. What's the reason
behind the delay and what is the focus of that investigation.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Well, you know, again, as mister Eventhel said in an
open meeting, that the investigation B will, if ever allowed
to go forward, we'll focus on many things. Using his words,
he was just a tip of the iceberg, and he
had very little information that he could provide at this time.
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On that that he felt that he needed some more
time to look into some things, to clarify or to
find some probable cause based on the suspicion of the
improprieties in the bidding process, and that he wanted to
continue that, and that he felt that, you know, a
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price of about twenty five thousand dollars would get us
to a point where we would at least know if
we need to turn that over to law enforcement authorities
for further investigation, if it was criminal violations versus policy
violation versus nothing at all, and then of course that's
absolutely what I was aving hating for last night, however,
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and it came to me as a surprise. I was
quite shocked when Recorder Murray came out and asked for
an amendment to that agenda item and the requested amendments
was to push that out until next week's regular meeting,
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where we could have further discussion.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
UH.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Again that that shocked me because I don't know what
more information we could get other than what you know
mister Dall told us in UH an open meeting. Of course,
by law, weren't allowed to discuss what transpires in executive session.
But I can't tell you that. You know that he
went in the executive session with us, and you know,
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everybody had plenty of time to talk. We talked, we
were an executive session. I think if you look at
the the minutes of the last meeting for for two hours,
were better. I felt when I left there at a
clear understanding exactly where we were and what needed to
be done. And so I was shocked and somewhat disappointed
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that I was blindsided like that by the reporter. We've
always had a great relationship. We talked, We talked Monday evening,
and I felt that, you know, it would have been
statesmans like for him to at least let me know, hey, Mayor,
I'm going to be offering an amendment to your agenda item.
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Of course, you know, I was shocked when they came out,
and I was shocked that the council that some of
their reasons was financial. I know that, you know, services
are high, especially legal services, and you certainly get what
you pay for.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We have other.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Matters in the city where we're paying attorneys similar fees,
and we have one case that we're paying I think
three hundred and twenty five dollars an hour on a
case that was estimated to be one hundred and fifteen
thousand at its totality considering going to the State Supreme Court,
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and we're already at one hundred We're already one hundred
and sixty four thousand, and we're not even scratched the
service on the first day. So I think it's very
I think we're comparing apples to oranges, and I just
don't know. I hope the intent of the Council is
what they say it is. I'm starting to feel that
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that doesn't quite pass the smell test, and I feel
before last night, I didn't feel that we were going
to find too much, but the actions and reactions last
night just with me didn't pass the smell test, and
I feel that there's a lot more that we.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Need to look into Bridgeport. Mayor Robert Matheni is with us,
and now, Robert, I guess I would just ask you,
outside of the financial concer earns, is there any other
speculation as to why maybe this amendment was brought up
and approved?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
You know, I don't want to speculate on that, Okay.
I think we just got to let it play itself
out and you know, the truth will come to light.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
May Robert Matheni is with us, and you know, Mayor
wh when you were elected, transparency was a priority for you.
And I think that with that in mind, there's a
couple of things working here because I think in the
in the long game here you're trying to lay the foundation,
a stable foundation for the next city manager to come
in and do his or her job. But you know,
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we got to get through this first. It's what it
sounds like.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well, we absolutely do.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
We can't.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
We're in a position our hands are tied in legal matters.
If we wanted to, we couldn't hire a full time
city manager at this point. I am working on some
avenues to look at professional retired interim city managers. That's
something that I'll be rolling out the Council in the
very near future. I think that at the utmost of importance,
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we have a great guy in Joe Shuttlesworth who's doing
a wonderful job, but you know, at what he's capable
of doing, and he has so many other responsibilities in
the city. I think we need to bring somebody in
that post that can focus on being a city manager
and that has had city manager experience and education. And
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that's one of the next things on my agenda as
I moved forward, is to try to get something done
there and a temporary means. And you'd mentioned that I
ran on transparency. We've put a couple of programs in
place that are of transparency nature, and as I said
here today, I will continue to advocate for transparency during
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my entire.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Term as marriage Bridgeport Mayor. Robert Matheni now Robert. Last
thing on the way out. Recently there was an announcement
of a new sixteen million dollar terminal or airport hangar
I'm sorry to be built at the North Central West
Virginia Airport. And you know, certainly the North Central West
Virginia Airport is the economic centerpiece of your area that
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just continues to grow and give back to the community.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It certainly is, and we are the hub of economic
development in West Virginia. We have so much going on
with the airport, with White Oaks and Charles Point, our neighborhoods,
our parks. We have so many great amenities and great projects.
And you know, we will get over this hub and
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we will continue to thrive. But for the life of me,
I cannot understand why we are the plans in a
lawsuit against the governor Secretary of Economic Community Development. Uh.
We we have received so much support and finding out
of Charleston. Uh. It just bewilders me. And that's another
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issue that I'm looking into, uh, to just find out
why we're in that lawsuit to begin with, and why
we're putting so much good money after bad money. Uh.
There's no way, Mike, that we're going to see any
resolution to that, to that lawsuit outside of the State
Supreme Court. And in my guess, we're going to have
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over half a million dollars in that And it's to me,
it's a it's a legislative issue, it's not an issue
for the courts.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, I'm sorry we're out of time, Mayor, but I
look forward to our next conversation. Thank you very much,
mayor thank you have a great day. Absolutely you two.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Join the conversation at one eight hundred and seven sixty
five eight two fivey five. This is the Talk of
the Town.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Good Wednesday morning. It is nine thirty five. Coming up
later in the program, we'll spend a few minutes with
Mont County Sheriff Todd Forbes, and from Sheriff Forbes, we
will learn who the featured felons of the week are.
As a part of Wanted Wednesday, you can get ahead
start go out on the web at Montengelia Sheriff dot gov.
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And we're also going to talk to Sheriff Forbes about
an action that occurred yesterday with someone attempting or passing
a school bus. We'll get those details coming up later
in the program. Right now, we've got Delegate Joe Statler
with US Mont County Delegate representing the western end of
the county and got a couple of issues wanted to
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address with Delegate Statler. Good morning, Joe, how are you?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Good morning, sir. I am blessed as always, and I
am appreciative that I am not on the part of
your program that mister Forbes is addressing.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Well, I'm glad you are either, Jill. I've got to
be honest with you now, Joe. I guess that there
are some issues out in Blacksville and this is a
good opportunity to set the record straight. Tell us what
the current status of the mayor and city council is.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Well, I will tell you that to set the record
straight that the mayor Mary Dean in her council is
still in place. Actually met Monday evening about some of
the issues it's taking place in the city and they
aren't a good standing. I think it's a good and
I've known this group for years and I will tell
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you that graduate with Mary actually, and she's hard working,
and the council, it's all hard working council. It's just
like everybody else. They have concerns and some money issues
in this day and age, and a sowar system that
was put in and I believe in nineteen ninety three,
and it had some issues. And we need to find
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some funding to help them out, because a small community
like that can all you absorb all that. And they're
working on their issues within and now along with the
County Commission. I've been working with them. We're trying to
help them out and do as much as we can
to get that system corrected. But it is up and running,
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and the town council and the mayor is up and running,
and I believe everything's in good shape in Black Sail.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay, good, Now, can you share with us any details
of what the sewer issues are.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
You know, it's nothing that has come to the point
where they drain over into the water system or anything
like that. It's just other small issues. They got what
you call the system as holding tanks, and occasionally the
honding tanks will get backed up. Now they do spill
over into the locations where they're at, and that's never
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a good thing because sometimes it goes, you know, into
people's yards and pumps goes down. There's a series of
pumps that they rely up on. And the school system's
actually connected onto this system at Claverytel High School, and
I talked to the superintendent, mister Campbell, and they agreed
to and they're actually pumping their holding tanks to make
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sure that they're doing everything they can to help the
city out to make sure this doesn't give them a problem.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
So it's I don't.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Want to say it's minor, it's not my yard. The
stuff's ever flowing into. But I will tell you the
city is addressing this. And they have a gentleman that
is on staff that sees too this, and I spoke
with him the other night, and I can guarantee you
that he is trying to stay on top of everything.
He has concerns how nineteen ninety three it was engineered
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differently there probably would be today. So how do you
fix some of those problems? How do you locate some
of the problems? And that all takes money for a
study to see how the system can be upgraded, and
simply don't have the money. And so that's where we're
coming in to try, with the commission and myself in
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the state to see if there's some way we can
find some additional dollars to help him out.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Telling good Joe Statler's with us. We're talking about some
issues in Blacksville with the sewer system. There, council and
the mayor are firmly in place. Nobody's quit, everybody is
on the job. The plant is certainly running. And you know, Joe,
we've seen a similar thing happen in Marion County in
the town of Worthington, and if it's any consolation between
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the state and local leaders, they are repairing that system
and bringing that system back. All though it is I
think it's going to end up costing them in the
neighborhood of one point two to one point three million
dollars well.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
And that again you have to have a study to
figure out. Now, their case is a lot different because
they are overflowing into the into the river, and that's
certainly not the case in black silk that is is
not going into the waterways to my knowledge anywhere, but
it does have an occasional overflows. It always has into
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some of the areas where the honing tanks are. And
anytime you've got electrical pumps and they have backup pumps,
but when you have those, there's going to be issues
as to where they can down and I'm not sure
they're all protected with the emergency generators for backups, you know,
when the power goes off, which has happened. As the
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engineer told me, this has been a crazy year for
heavy downfalls of rain and that's given them somewhat of
a problem and they're trying to figure that out. Where
is external water entering into the system and caused them
the more problems. So I don't think it's anything in
a system like this. It may not be out there
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across the state, the nation. It's just we've got to
find the problems and pick them.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And I guess the final question. I'm sure I'm not
the first one to ask you this, but is there
a state resource that Blacksville can tap into to help
them with this?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, that's certainly what we're looking for. And the first
thing you got to do, Mike, is figure out what
we're trying to address and how much money it's going
to take. I mean, it could be something that takes
millions of dollars. As you say, it's a system that
could require a lot. And answer your question, yes, there
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is resources out there. It's just like everything else, you've
got to stand in line waiting for that money to
be able to help it. And what we need first
is dollars to look at a study to even tell
what the major problem is that we're trying to address.
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And the County commission I've went to them and they're
working great with this. I will tell you Doctor Commissioner Bloom,
who represents the area also and they have been very,
very in the front of looking at this issue and
what can we do and what's the resources and offering
the help that they can offer in and so I
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feel that we're going to help them out there. And
I think that's part of what led the Council and
the mayor to be so frustrated it as to where
they might step away and lead their positions. They felt
a little bit of abandoned. They didn't know where to
turn to maybe get help and everything like that. So
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I think with the Commission and everything that we can
give them, I don't want to call it assurances at
this time, but I guarantee him that I'm going to
continue to work on this and see what we can
do to help them out.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Got a partner in the battle.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Well, I don't want to say what I've said, but
I've been working on this week in last week. It
started pretty much brought to my more to my attention
last week. But I guarantee you that I'm going to
stay working with him until we find a solution to this.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Okay, good deal. Mond County Delegate Joe Statler, Joe, can
we get a rain check on the EMS conversation? I
apologize for that.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
We certainly can. Okay, you have a good day, sir.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Absolutely. Delegate Joe Statler representing the western end of Montaguille
County certainly thank Joe. When we come back, we've got
Sheriff Todd Forbes. We're gonna be talking about the Wanted
Wednesday featured Felons, got another group of featured felons, and
we're also going to talk about the first day on
the roads, on the first day of classes for Montngellier
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County schools. It's coming up next on Top of the
Town AM fourteen forty FM one oh four point five WAJR.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Now back to the Talk of the Town.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
A good Wednesday morning. It is nine eight of clouds
seventy four degrees in the University City and on the
phone we've got Montgelia County Sheriff Todd Forbes. It is
a wanted Wednesday. So I'd like to direct your attention
to Montenguelia Sheriff. Let me check double check that website
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before I find myself on the wrong end of the law.
Montaguelia Sheriff dot gov. You can go to that website
and follow right along with us. Sheriff Forbes. Good morning,
How are you?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Good morning, Mike? Doing great? But I gotta say I
got to have a little bit warning if you're going
to bring me in behind a legend, I mean delicate.
Stadler is a real warrior from Montague County. It sounds
like he's on a mission there in Blacksville. We'll do
anything we can do to help him. If that will
be of any assistants at.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
All, Absolutely, absolutely, well, Sheriff. It is a wanted Wednesday
in the city of Morgantown and Montaguelia County. So who
are we looking for today?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Today? We have a few individuals that we haven't been
able to track down. The first is William Belt He's
wonderful Peloni fraud, several things associated with access device, computers
and things like that. The next lady by the name
of Lindsay Eddie. She's wanted for failure to appear on
(31:05):
several occasions and trespassing. Darryl James Goodall wanted for felony,
obstructing and playing also some drug related charges. Aronde Michael
Lowe for larceny, auto tampering, burglary, and lastly, Brandon Tanner
(31:27):
wanted for felony strangulation. So we look forward to getting
any tips and any help we can from the community.
As always, you know, this initiative was set up to
get some involved from the community and try to make
things as safe as we can, because the community's safety
is obviously our priority.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
How are we doing so far? How many of these
bad guys you've been doing about averaging maybe about five
a week on the list. How many are you picking up?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Well, we're doing pretty good. We're still about five hundred.
We only got one this week, so we're up to
eleven out of twenty, okay, which is still pretty good.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That's awfully good, I might say. And once again, if
you see or know these people, the best thing to
do is to call nine to one one. Don't get
involved yourself. You can go out to the website Montegiliaseriff
dot gov. You can see pictures of these folks if
you need that information as well. Now, Sheriff, Yeah, exactly, yes. Now,
(32:27):
the first day of school was on Tuesday, and you
were nice enough to come onto the program Monday at
nine thirty and give folks plenty of warning that all
you have to do is obey the stop arm and
the rules of the road and you won't get in trouble.
But I guess there was maybe one or two people
(32:49):
that weren't listening bring us up to speed.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yeah, I mean, it's really sad that we had to
talk about it in the first place. And it's even
more sad than we have to talk about the couple
people that were cited for passing school buses. Now, that's
just that's just bad business. So I did a little research.
You asked me, I wasn't exactly sure, but I wanted
to clarify for today. When you passed the school bus,
(33:13):
the first offense is a mandatory loss of your driver's
license for sixty days, second event is six months, and
the third offense is a year's suspension of your driver's license. Now,
if somebody would get hurt in the act of passing
the school bus, this becomes a felony offense. So I
would hope that some folks around here would take it
a little bit more serious. The thing we're there to
(33:35):
do is protect the safety of the kids, and I
just again, I can't believe we have to talk about this.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Mike, you know, Sheriff. I guess I'm glad that you
did bring this information to the program because I was
under the misunderstanding that this was primarily a severe points violation.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Well, that's true that there are some points and some
times come with that, but it is an automatic expension
of your drivers license.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And that and that is an immediate adjustment of your
personal life.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Sure. Yeah, there's maybe some guys you do the work
if they can't be responsible in the morn's on the way.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
All right, Well, I'm sure those patrols continue.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
They certainly do. We had We were out in full
force again today. We're going to be all week and
then we're hopefully we will will be able to slow
that down a little bit next week and just focus on, uh,
the safety of the kids at the school.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Okay, good deal, Uh, Sheriff Todd Forbes Sheriff definitely appreciates
your time this morning, and keep up the good work, sir.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Thanks, Mike, sir, absolutely take care of yourself, have a
safe day, and once again go out to Montaguelia Sheriff
dot gov. They've got a press release about the driver
sided for passing a school bus. His name Samuel Harvey
given and they lay out some of the circumstance answers
around that particular stop, you can take a look at
(35:03):
that particular press release and then you'll be able to
take a look at the slate of the most wanted
felons on this Wanted Wednesday. That is Moneingilia Sheriff dot Gov.
Right now, cloud's seventy four degrees in the University City
Now Metro Newsaki Weather tells us for the remainder of
(35:23):
the day, we're looking at mostly cloudy sky, sixty percent
chance of thunderstorms and I have eighty two and as
has been the rule not the exception this summer, if
we do have a thunderstorm, we could see some intense
rain amounts within those thunderstorms. We'll be back to wrap
(35:44):
things up coming up after this on top of the
town AM fourteen forty f M one oh four point
five WAJR
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