2024-04-09 04:23:05
The Spring Board Meeting for the County Commission Association of West Virginia was held Sunday and Monday at the Blennerhassett Hotel in Parkersburg. Around 30 people attended the meeting with a variety of sessions covering issues county commissions may be dealing with. (Photo by Brett Dunlap)
PARKERSBURG — A number of county officials from around the state were in Parkersburg Sunday and Monday getting important updates on issues impacting counties around the state.
The Spring Board Meeting for the County Commission Association of West Virginia was held both days at the Blennerhassett Hotel in Parkersburg.
Around 30 people attended the meeting Monday with sessions covering legal issues commission may face, Commissioners’ Roles/Responsibilities, media outreach, Opioid Settlement Funds Update, reviewing Robert’s Rules of Order, an WVCorp Update, a discussion on ARPA Funding and brainstorming for the upcoming CCAWV meeting June 9-12 at the Stonewall Resort.
“We have commissioners, employees and administrators here from all over the state,” said CCAWV President Tammy Tincher, a Greenbrier County Commissioner. “We had our board meeting (Sunday).
“We have training and several board sessions (Monday) for our elected officials to have legal questions answered and doing a session on parliamentary procedure with the Speaker of the House (of Delegates) Roger Hanshaw.
“We are going to be talking about marketing and promotion materials for our counties, just a general education session for us to get information and to be able to promote our counties.”
Tincher said the meetings allow officials to be able to network with other commissioners from around the state.
“They are also able to learn about new things that may have been passed in the legislative session and how that will affect counties,” she said.
Training is important as a number of new commissioners come on every two years and these sessions help get them up to speed on what is happening.
“We always try to make sure that as we have new people in seats that we continually have an educational aspect to where they are learning and getting updated on things that are changing within our county and local governments,” Tincher said.
Brett Dunlap can be reached at bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com
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