WHEELING — Members of Wheeling City Council will be on somewhat of a summer break from meetings over the next few weeks, as the first regular council meeting in August has been rescheduled for the middle of the month.

Typically, Wheeling City Council meets twice a month, with sessions slated for 5:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. However, the West Virginia Municipal League’s annual conference will take place Aug. 4-7 in Morgantown, and city officials are expected to attend. Because of the scheduling conflict, city council passed a resolution this week to change the date for the first meeting of next month from Aug. 5 to Aug. 12.

With five Tuesdays in the month of July, there was already a three-week gap between regularly scheduled sessions. Now that the August meeting was rescheduled, the gap between meetings has been expanded to four weeks.

The next meeting will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12. The meeting is expected to be held in council chambers in the City-County Building on 1500 Chapline St. unless otherwise relocated in the future — which is possible due to ongoing renovations and upgrades of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in the building.

Before city leaders entered the nearly month-long summer break from council meetings, they met on Tuesday and heard first readings on several pieces of new legislation that are expected to receive a final vote on Aug. 12.

Council heard a first reading on a new ordinance to authorize the expenditure of $48,350 with James White Construction Co. Weirton for a sanitary sewer extension at Duquesne Avenue and Valley View Avenue. This project is to be charged to the city’s American Rescue Plan Act fund. Officials noted that this was unanticipated work and an extension of a previous contract.

An ordinance authorizing the city manager to spend $40,642 with Foster + Freeman of Ashburn, Virginia, received a first reading. The expenditure will be for evidence collection equipment, and the cost will be charged to the city’s 2024 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG Grant) from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Members of city council also heard first readings on ordinances to amend a number of traffic rules. They included the following changes to create: a loading zone from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 950 Main St.; a four-way stop intersection and to install crosswalks at 17th and Wood streets; a no-parking zone and to install a stop sign on the corner of Walden Avenue and Knox Lane; a traffic rule at the intersection of W.Va. 2 and Northern Parkway to prohibit a right turn on red.