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ELKINS Newly elected Mayor Jerry Marco has created a new task force to deal with drug addiction and homelessness in the City of Elkins.
The Addiction and Homeless Resources Task Force will include one Elkins City Council member, Elkins Police Chief Travis Bennett and Randolph County Sheriff Rob Elbon. The Task Force will also include at least four citizen members.
Marco said Task Force members will “seek and share information about available strategies and resources, as well as identifying and advocating for needed new resources” in the areas of “addiction and homelessness prevention and response,” according to a city press release, which also states, “This body will also look for opportunities to reduce duplication of efforts.”
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ELKINS Elkins City Council has certified the results of the March 2 Elkins Municipal Election.
Meeting Wednesday, council certified the vote totals, which were unchanged from the results of Monday’s vote canvass at the Phil Gainer Community Center.
During Monday’s vote canvass, council reviewed 32 provisional ballots and accepted 22 of them, changing some vote totals but not the outcomes of any races.
Candidates had 48 hours from the close of the canvass to request recounts, but none did, enabling council to certify as final the declared vote tallies in all five city wards.
The new mayor and the five city council members elected will be sworn in March 31 and take office April 1.
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Elkins Police Departmentâs Dylan Coffman helps transport the ballots from last weekâs Elkins Municipal Election into the Phil Gainer Community Center Monday. Elkins City Clerk Jessica Sutton and Fifth Ward City Councilman Dave Parker work during Mondayâs vote canvassing at the Phil Gainer Community Center. After the canvass, Parkerâs lead over challenger Burley Woods had increased from two votes to four.
The Inter-Mountain photos by Edgar Kelley
Elkins Police Departmentâs Dylan Coffman helps transport the ballots from last weekâs Elkins Municipal Election into the Phil Gainer Community Center Monday.
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ELKINS Elkins voters elected a new mayor Tuesday and voted down a proposal to create a city manager position, according to unofficial election results.
Jerry A. Marco won an overwhelming victory in the mayor’s race, totaling 707 votes out of the more than 1,000 ballots cast in the 2021 Elkins Municipal Election.
Karen Wilmoth garnered 166 votes for mayor, while Andrew Carroll tallied 139 votes. D.C. Talkington received 5 votes for mayor.
The full results of the election were released by the city at 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. Polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.
The proposed city charter change that would have adopted a mayor/manager form of government, and would have created a new city manager position, was soundly defeated, with 321 votes cast in favor of the proposal, and 676 votes cast against it.