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Weirton Names DiBartolomeo as Its New City Manager

Photo by Craig Howell Weirton’s new city manager, Joe DiBartolomeo, left, takes the oath of office from Mayor Harold Miller during an August 2018 city council meeting. Council approved DiBartolomeo’s appointment 6-0.

Weirton has a new city manager.

Following a vote Monday to amend its agenda to include the action, Weirton City Council voted 6-0 in favor of Mayor Harold Miller’s appointment of Joe DiBartolomeo as city manager.

“He’s well known, well liked,” said Miller. “He’s highly qualified.”

A lifelong resident of Weirton, he holds a bachelor of science in Business Administration, a master’s of professional accountancy and a juris doctor.

In addition to working in private practice, DiBartolomeo has been a tax accountant for the State of West Virginia. From 1991 to 2002, he was the Weirton city attorney and served under the administrations of Ed Bowman and Dean Harris. He has served a total of 36 years in the U.S. military, first enlisting in the Marines and then going through ROTC and earning a commission in the Army. His assignments were at Fort Bragg, in Europe, at the Pentagon, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Pakistan. He completed his military career as deputy commanding general of the U.S. Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg.

He has worked as a military special operations consultant and adviser to various governmental agencies and the U.S. Department of Defense. Since April 2013, he has been vice president of special operations and irregular warfare for Arcanum Global Inc.

DiBartolomeo also was a 2010 inductee into the Weirton Hall of Fame under the category of business, industry and professionals.

Following the meeting, DiBartolomeo said he looks forward to getting to work. He said Weirton is at a critical point in its history.

“It’s a great community,” he said. “There’s a lot of opportunity.”

When Weirton Steel was in full operation, DiBartolomeo said residents knew they would have a job for life at the mill. Generations of families thrived in the city. Now, he said, he has a daughter who is a doctor in Cleveland and a son in the military, and said he realizes it is important to draw new businesses and industries to the area that provide jobs for residents and bring in new people.

“I don’t think we ought to be a bedroom community,” he said. “I think we ought to be able to stand on our own.”

DiBartolomeo said various organizations have said Weirton is a safe community, which he said is one of the city’s assets.

“You look at our record for safety,” he said. “There’s not many communities in this country, or in the world, with this record of safety.”

DiBartolomeo fills a post vacated by the recent resignation of Travis Blosser, who left the city for a position as the new assistant executive director of the West Virginia Municipal League.

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