KINGWOOD — Preston County commissioners are wondering if any new information will be presented today in their meeting with the State Division of Highways (DOH).
DOH District 4, which includes Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Doddridge and Taylor counties, invited those county commissions to separate, 45-minute presentations to-day at District 4 offices, in Clarksburg.
County commissions and state legislators from District 4 met twice and formed the North Central Caucus on Roads.
In a May 23 letter, District 4 Engineer Don Williams wrote, “The goal of the meeting will be to distribute and discuss information concerning District 4 as a whole and your county specifically. Material will be distributed, including maps showing loca-tions of past and future projects, fact sheets (mile-age and types of roads), summary of budgets and programs, costs of contract work, spreadsheets of recent active declared disasters, General Obligation Bond status, etc.”
At Monday’s meeting, Preston Commissioners Dave Price and Don Smith wondered whether any new information will be presented.
“We will wait and see,” Smith said, choosing not to comment beyond that. Price noted the DOH showed them maps in the past and wondered if these will be any different. “The maps that they showed us [before] did not even begin to touch the problem,” Price said.
Commissioner Craig Jennings was not at Monday’s meeting.
County Administrator Kathy Mace said Prestonians continue to call into the commission office to complain about their roads. The list of roads, she said, “is just about every one in Preston County.”
In other business Monday, commissioners had a moment of silence for Mike Pase, who died Friday. Pase served as the commission’s representative on the Preston County Solid Waste Authority board.
Smith praised Pase’s work on the board.
Applicants are being accepted to fill the board position. Anyone interested should call the county commission office, at 304-329-1805.
