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PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg City Council members will gather Friday to discuss the issues they hope to focus on this year.
Council President Zach Stanley said he wanted to have a workshop similar to the forum former Councilman John Reed organized when he served as president in 2018.
“It was a good way to kind of get everybody on the same page,” Stanley said.
Everyone who runs for council has certain goals they want to accomplish or issues they hope to address, Stanley said. The workshop is a chance for the five incumbent and four new members of council to discuss these goals, see how they fit into the city’s role of providing essential services and set priorities in concert with the administration, he said.