City, County to Host Second Virtual Town Hall

Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin and Kanawha County Commissioners Kent Carper, Henry C. Shores and Ben Salango announced today that the City and County’s second virtual town hall meeting will take place Thursday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be hosted through the ZOOM video conferencing service and will be available to view online via the City of Charleston and Kanawha County Facebook pages. This is being done in an effort to promote social distancing.

Panelists for the town hall include Dr. Sherri Young from the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, Missy Ruddle from Kanawha County Schools, Paulette Justice from Kanawha Valley Senior Services and Scott Adkins from WorkforceWV. Mayor Goodwin and Commissioner Salango will moderate the discussion.

“With the success of our first town hall meeting, it was important to us to continue these informational sessions,” said Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin. “We continue to work with Dr. Sherri Young and have added panelists who can answer questions from parents and students navigating the final semester, testing and graduation; questions relating to unemployment claims and questions about senior services during this pandemic.”

Commissioner Salango commented, “Keeping our Kanawha County citizens informed during this time is important. We have scheduled another Town Hall meeting so we can provide important information to help our citizens maneuver through the processes they are facing with healthcare, workforce, the school system, senior services and small businesses.” Questions can be submitted by email to townhall@cityofcharleston.org through Thursday, April 16 at noon.