Bob Peckenpaugh, president and CEO of the Wheeling Park Commission, speaks during a celebration of renovations to Oglebay Park Resort’s Wilson Lodge in August 2024. (File Photo)

WHEELING — City officials in Wheeling will be meeting in a new location tonight for what promises to be the first of many sessions in a temporary space over the next few months.

Tonight’s meeting of Wheeling City Council will take place in the courtroom on the second floor of the City-County Building on Chapline Street downtown. The relocation of the city council meetings, as well as the temporary displacement of city and county offices located on the first floor of the building, is expected to last through the end of the year as major renovations in the facility continue.

Among the items on tap for tonight will be a public hearing on a bond issue for a $12 million Oglebay Park Improvement Bond.

The city is assisting the Wheeling Park Commission with the financing for planned improvements to Wilson Lodge, The Good Zoo and other areas of Oglebay.

Officials from the Wheeling Park Commission are expected to speak on the proposal during tonight’s public hearing. If approved, the revenue bonds will be repaid by the Wheeling Park Commission. The city is simply serving as a liaison to help the commission secure this financing for improvements at the park.

Following the public hearing on the matter at the beginning of tonight’s meeting, council is scheduled to hear a third and final reading on the ordinance for the Oglebay Park Improvement Revenue Bond and take a vote on the issue.

Other unfinished business slated for tonight’s meeting include final readings and votes for several Community Development Block Grant allocations to local non-profit organizations.

A relatively light agenda of new legislation is scheduled to come before city council tonight. Only four new ordinances are slated for first readings.

Council will hear a first reading on an ordinance to spend $27,000 with Centrisys of Kenosha, Wisconsin, for the purchase of rental services for a centrifuge to be charged to the Water Pollution Control division. This has been a monthly rental charge that has been occurring for more than a year since the spring 2024 flood that damaged to the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. The city is moving forward with projects to repair the facility and bring tens of millions of dollars in additional improvements and needed updates to the plant.

A new ordinance is scheduled to be introduced tonight to spend $23,999 with Cast and Baker of Canonsburg, Pa., for paving of Duquesne Avenue. This project will be charged tot he Water Pollution Control and Water departments. Crews were scheduled to mill and pave the road today, and the work was expected to be completed in one day.

Two new traffic ordinances are also scheduled for first readings during tonight’s meeting. One ordinance would create a three-way stop intersection at Hawthorne Court and Emerson Road in Woodsdale. Another new ordinance would create a no parking zone on Fridays from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. on the north end of Lane B, extending for 50 feet from Fifth Street going south in North Wheeling.

Tonight’s council meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. Prior to the council meeting, members of the Finance Committee of Council are slated to meet at 5:15 p.m. to review the city’s September financial report.