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TONY J. VELTRI

TAYLOR COUNTY COMMISSION

SAM GERKIN

ORVILLE G. WRIGHT

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The Taylor County Commission meets, for the most part, the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00 PM and the third Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM. You may verify meetings on the 2024 schedule.

You may also review the previous

meetings and agendas here. When the page opens in a new tab there will be a box that says last name. Type "Taylor County Commission Meeting" and the meeting dates will appear. Select the meeting minutes you would like to review.

 

Meetings are held at the

Taylor County Courthouse in the

Tony J. Veltri Annex Building located at

128 W. Main Street, Grafton WV 26354. 

 

The Taylor County Commission is a member of Project Mountaineer.

Project Mountaineer brings transparency and accessibility to the citizens of Taylor County, displaying financial transactions and accounting for the spending of taxpayer dollars in a searchable online database. Software upgrades were made within the Taylor County Clerk’s office that will help Taylor County be a pioneer of future financial reporting and transparency.

Project Mountaineer was initiated by the West Virginia State Auditor’s Office under the direction of J.B. McCuskey. This program was created to enhance the local government’s financial reporting, provide robust fiscal distress monitoring, potentially decrease audit costs, and improve interactions with local government constituents.

Open Checkbook | Taylor County Clerk (taylorcountywvclerk.com)

 

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The County Commission is the governing body of Taylor County consisting of three elected members who each serve a six-year term. Commissioners serve in part-time positions.

The Constitution provides certain powers to the county commission, but these powers are limited to "the manner prescribed by law." This means that the county commissions’ powers must be expressly conferred by the Constitution or by acts of the Legislature. With respect to the powers of a county commission, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has stated that "a county court (now county commission) possesses only such powers as are expressly conferred upon it by constitutional or statutory provisions, together with such powers as are reasonably and necessarily implied in the full and proper exercise of powers expressly conferred upon it."

The West Virginia Constitution, Section 11, Article 9, specifically grants the following powers and duties to county commissions:

  • The custody, through their clerks, of all deeds and other papers presented for record in their counties, with responsibility for their preservation or disposal as may be prescribed by law.

  • The administration of the internal police and fiscal affairs of their counties, with authority to lay county levies, under regulations as may be prescribed by law.

  • Serve as the judge of the election, qualification and return of their own members, and of all county and district officers, subject to regulations as may be prescribed by law.

Other duties and responsibilities are specified in chapter 7 of the West Virginia Code, particularly in §7-1-3. These include

  • Preparation and adoption of budget for all county offices, except judicial

  • Jurisdiction in all matters of probate

  • Appoint guardians for minor children; receive court settlements generally

  • Own and maintain county property

  • Sit as Board of Canvassers

  • Lay and disburse county levies based on assessed property values

  • Sit as Board of Review and Equalization in February hear appeals on property values for assessment purposes

  • Appoint Fiduciary Commissioners to oversee and settle certain estates as required

  • Appoint members of certain county boards, authorities and public service districts

  • Adopt ordinances and orders in areas of jurisdiction as prescribed by law

  • Approve purchase orders and payment vouchers for elected county offices, except judicial

County commissions are required by Section 9, Article 9 of the Constitution to hold four regular sessions (meetings) each. These meetings must be held at the courthouse. Special sessions may be held throughout the year if called by the president of the Commission with the concurrence of at least one other commissioner. The number of meetings held varies from county to county, with some commissions meeting once month and others several times a month. Notice of all meetings must be given and meetings are public, as required by the open meetings law, West Virginia Code §6-9A-3. Executive sessions may be held as authorized by law. Two commissioners in attendance at a meeting establish a quorum. At the first session of each year, the commissioners choose one of their members to serve as president.

Contact Information:

Orville Wright, Commissioner - Phone: 304-657-9269, Email: ogwright51@gmail.com
Sam Gerkin, Commissioner - Phone: 304-695-0477, Email: samgerkintcc19@gmail.com

Tony Veltri, Commissioner - Phone: 304-677-0822

Patricia Henderson, Administrative Support Staff - Phone: 304-265-5450, Fax: 304-265-5787

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