Staff Writer
The Inter-Mountain photo by Edgar Kelley
Commissioners David Kesling, Mark Scott and Chris See listen to a presentation during this weekâs Randolph County Commission meeting.
ELKINS The Randolph County Commission approved a revised contract this week for creating a new county pool/splash pad project at the Elks Country Club.
The commission had applied for a U.S. Waters Grant to help with the funding for the project. That would have been a matching grant, which meant that the county would have to contribute the same amount of money it received for the project.
“We were looking at applying for a grant for $500,000 and the county was going to match that, making it a $1 million project to re-do the Elks pool and put in the splash pad,” said Commissioner David Kesling. “At the last minute when we were ready to file for the grant, we found out that the county would have to operate it in order to get the grant. And that’s something we’ve said all along tha