photo by: Emma Delk

Moundsville City Manager Rick Healy, left, reviews information during a special city council meeting Tuesday as Mayor David Wood looks on.

Moundsville City Council members unanimously approved awarding contracts for the 2025 Concrete Street Project and a West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection demolition program during a special meeting on Tuesday.

The street project contract was awarded to Savage Construction for $148,500. The demolition contract was awarded to Raze International for $48,857.

Moundsville City Manager Rick Healy said the street project received bids from Savage and JD&E Construction Co., with Savage’s costing $30,000 less. Healy said “all of the proper documentation” was provided with Savage’s bid, and the total cost was under the city engineer’s estimate.

The street project includes Fifth Street from W.Va. 2 to Tomlinson Avenue and Fourth Street from Baker to Grant avenues. Healy stressed that these streets would not be paved and, instead, concrete repair work would be performed on them.

“A couple of years ago, we decided to stop paving over concrete streets and just fix them,” Healy said. “We’ll go in and cut out the bad spots and fix them instead of repaving, so it’s all only concrete work.”

After the awarding of the bid, Healy said Savage had 30 days to begin the concrete repairs and anticipated the work would “start soon.”

Councilman Randy Chamberlain questioned how the concrete repairs on Fifth Street would be carried out during the John Marshall High School football season and how traffic near the stadium would be managed. Healy responded that the “whole street would not be shut down at once” and would be completed in intermittent pieces.

“There will be times, of course, where the traffic flow is cut off, depending upon what needs to be done across the street, but I think they’ll try their best to work it so that won’t be happening on a football Friday,” Healy said.

Healy added that the Fourth Street concrete repairs would also be performed in sections.

The demolition project includes and asbestos removal and teardown at 328 Sycamore Ave., 126 Sycamore Ave., 80 Compton Ave. and 329 Thorn Ave., rear. Healy estimated that work would begin in the next two weeks.

Healy noted that the Raze International bid was the only bid received for the demolitions.