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PARKERSBURG – Tuesday’s regular Parkersburg City Council meeting will be sandwiched between sessions of the Finance Committee and Urban Renewal Authority.

The agenda for the council meeting, set for 7:30 p.m. in council chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building, includes just two resolutions. One would schedule the last regular meetings of the year on Dec. 9 and 30, and the other would amend the Community Development Block Grant budget to reallocate $10,000 to the Old Man Rivers Weekend Feeding Program.

The second item’s presence on the agenda is contingent on a referral from the Finance Committee when it meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Meeks Conference Room adjacent to council chambers.

The resolution would move $10,000 from a 2021 allocation to Wood County Recreation for youth scholarships for its programs to Old Man Rivers, Wood County’s largest food pantry, which saw an uptick in need recently as the now-resolved federal government shutdown paused SNAP benefits. Mayor Tom Joyce, a member of the Wood County Recreation Commission, said the funds had not been expended and need to be reallocated.

After the council meeting, members will convene as the Urban Renewal Authority to consider applications to purchase three pieces of property and decide whether to tear down a structure at 640 Bird St.

Timber and Aaron Daniel bid $1,000 for 1900 Market St. Their application says they plan to use the lot as a yard extension. A memo with the agenda says the city received the vacant lot by donation this year and spent approximately $100 to obtain and stabilize it.

Robert D. Shaffer bid $755.55 for 803 Virginia Ave. as a yard extension. The city accepted the property as a donation in 2022 after previously demolishing a structure there. A memo with the agenda lists the city’s investment in the property as $11,270.

Michael Schofield bid $3,333 for 1807 Spring St., where the city demolished a structure in 2023 for $13,850 before obtaining the lot at a tax sale this year for $1,631.57. Schofield’s application says the land would be used for a garden and perhaps a garage eventually.

Evan Bevins can be reached at ebevins@newsandsentinel.com.