Mon County construction crews add more than $1 million in 2019 efforts

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Monongalia County director of facilities Bobby Doyle and his crew completed more than $1 million worth of remodeling, construction and maintenance projects in 2019.

Doyle detailed the list during the most recent Mon County commission meeting:

All new handicapped bathrooms and remodeled the kitchen, remodeled the county clerk’s break and lunch area, built a new shed to store road salt on Lockside Road, four new metal roofs on buildings at Chestnut Ridge Park, remodeled the Mason-Dixon Barn, new shelving/lighting for the
county clerk, a new office in the probation area and new retaining wall on Lockside Road.

Doyle thanked his workers and totaled the savings to the county budget.

“This year alone on those projects our county construction crews saved the county $1,011,205.83,”Doyle told commissioners.

Commission president Ed Hawkins recognized the efforts of Doyle and his crew.

“I’m really happy to acknowledge what the construction crew does for Monongalia County,”Hawkins said,”If we had to go outsource this would have to spend much more money.”