ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä City Council Tuesday approved allocations of $6 million out of the year’s unallocated funds. Funding included initiatives announced in Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin’s State of the City address.
New projects
Goodwin announced an initiative called the Hearts of Our Neighborhoods Program to work on projects requested by the public to improve their neighborhoods. Council approved $250,000 for the fund, which should last two years.
The Municipal Auditorium Fund and a fund for parking garage repairs, projects also announced by Goodwin, received $1 million and $1.75 million, respectively.
Warming centers
Council allocated $50,000 more to the warming centers administered by the Kanawha Valley Collective. The centers open overnight when the temperature goes below 20 degrees.
Traci Strickland, KVC executive director, said the center at the SHOP at Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, 319 Washington St. W., had been open for 16 nights as of Tuesday. The cost to run the center is about $3,600 a night.
Before the extra funding, there was about $25,000 left for this winter, Strickland said, and the KVC was estimating four more nights of opening just this week.
The funds also go toward cooling centers in the summer months.
Other unallocated funds went toward
$700,000: Public Safety Center design
$600,000: ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä Land Reuse Agency programs
$350,000: ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä Fire Department training center
$300,000: Danner Meadow Park improvements
$286,000: Road salt inventory replenishment
$180,000: City Center Live programming
$250,000: Security cameras at parks and recreation facilities
$250,000: Equipment for ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä firefighters
$100,000: Beautification efforts
$75,000: Expansion of the ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä Urban Works program to Kanawha City
$25,000: Design for an emergency exit to City Council chambers
Other actions
Council also approved:
$52,000 for a truck lift system for the Equipment Maintenance department
Moving $42,600 from Municipal Court payments into a fund for police training
Receiving $4,000 from Mountaineer Gas to purchase carbon monoxide detectors
Changes in rates for space rentals at the ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä Coliseum & Convention Center and Municipal Auditorium
Council approved a change to the right-of-way at the West Side Cabin Creek Health Systems. The right-of-way has been inaccessible to the public since the U.S. Post Office owned the property, according to Planning Department documents. The City sold the right-of-way for $7,000.
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