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St. Clairsville Council President Jim Velas conducts a meeting. Council heard updates Tuesday from the finance director and a visiting clerk.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE City Council heard the first reading of the proposed budget Tuesday and made temporary appropriations for expenditures through 2021.
The budget must be approved by April 1.
Council also heard from Finance Director Annette Williams and a visiting clerk, who addressed several questions council members had raised during the prior meeting.
Melanie Smith, who was hired to assist Williams’ office as a visiting clerk, described her work for the city from December through March 31 for $35 per hour. She has been paid $6,332 so far.
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By the evening of October 5, Liberal senator Hollie Hughes knew she had the numbers for her biggest political coup – the establishment of a Senate inquiry that she would chair into the e-cigarette industry.
After months of wrangling, she was ready to celebrate – over drinks with two British American Tobacco lobbyists.
“Oh we do love you @senator hollie,” Michael Kauter, the former deputy federal director of the Nationals, posted on social media that night last year alongside a photo of Hughes in a Canberra restaurant with her arm around him. Kauter’s husband, Professor David Gracey, was on Hughes’ other side. Gracey, who is a renal specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, is an adviser to Kauter’s lobbying firm.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE A resident wrote a letter criticizing Mayor Kathryn Thalman for a social media post, and a councilman read that letter during a Monday teleconference meeting.
Councilman Frank Sabatino read the letter and also had several questions about the process of closing out the books for 2020 and setting up appropriations for 2021.
Thalman had shared a post that quoted conservative commentator Candace Owens referring to “liberals” as “communists.” It was deleted from Thalman’s personal page, but there have been numerous comments about the matter on a Facebook page devoted to the city.
Sabatino read the letter by resident Matt Berher, who also addressed a letter to the mayor. He wrote that the post was not a sign Thalman was attempting to end political division in the city.
Jeremy Greenwood has been appointed Chair of UK Concrete
Jeremy Greenwood has been appointed Chair of UK Concrete to work with Director Chris Leese to marshall the collective resources within MPA in The Concrete Centre, MPA Cement, BRMCA and British Precast as part of the roadmap the sector is implementing to go ‘Beyond Net Zero by 2050’.
MPA CEO Nigel Jackson said: ‘I am delighted that Jeremy is joining the MPA team as Chair of UK Concrete. Whilst at Tarmac he played a major role in developing the thinking within the sector on the promotion of concrete’s sustainability credentials and is a natural and passionate champion for what is the world’s most sought-after man-made material. Working closely with the UK Concrete team and supported by the combined resources of MPA the industry is signalling its determination to go ‘on the front foot’ to defend and promote the use of essential concrete in the built environment using hard evidence and integrity. Jeremy’s extensiv
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David Mertz of Belmont College’s Historic Building and Restoration Program, from left, Gabe Haye of Wallace Pancher Group and St. Clairsville Councilman Perry Basile inspect the train station on Sugar Street in October. The city is considering restoring the historic structure.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE City leaders are looking at options to restore a century-old railroad depot on Sugar Street for community use.
Gabe Hayes of the Wallace Pancher Group engineering firm said the depot is in need of roof repair and interior repairs to the walls. The windows have been restored, but the building must be scraped and painted. A restroom could also be placed there.