WEIRTON – The City of Weirton has transitioned into its new fiscal year, with the first budget revisions of the year recommended to Weirton Council.

Members of the city’s Finance Committee met Thursday morning, recommending the authorization of revisions to both the 2025-2026 fiscal general fund budget and the 2025-2026 fiscal coal severance budget.

While specific details of the amount of the budget revisions weren’t discussed by members of the committee Thursday, Finance Director Diana Smoljanovich explained they are performed each year.

“It’s a requirement each July,” she said.

The amounts of the revisions take into account whatever fund balance remains in the city’s coffers from the 2024-2025 fiscal year, which ended June 30.

Smoljanovich explained she had to provide an estimate in order to make the revision, as part of the shift into a new fiscal year which began July 1, noting some billings from recent weeks are still being received and haven’t fully been accounted for.

“We’ll still be getting invoices through July,” Smoljanovich said. “I’m getting it as close as I can.”

Other items recommended by the Finance Committee, which will go before Weirton Council at its meeting at 7 p.m., Monday were:

A resolution approving 2025 fiscal Community Development Block Grant and Home Investment Partnerships programs and authorizing filing of the 2025-2029 five-year consolidated plan and the 2025 annual action plan with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development;

A resolution participating in the Northern Panhandle Home Consortium from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026;

An agreement with GOGovApps, at a cost of $5,600, for a subscription to GOEnforce Code Enforcement;

An agreement with Aster Oilfield Services for asbestos abatement of exterior siding of a structure at 318 Howard St., at $8,000;

The relocation of a street light on Smith Street at a cost of $565;

The purchase of parts to repair the 2018 Freightliner, known as Truck 55, in the Sanitation Department at Public Works for $5,410;

A contract for the purchase of road de-icing salt, at a cost of $88.38 per ton;

An agreement with Cottrill Family Construction, at $29,500, for the removal of trees on Zeta Street;

A contract with CDW Government, at $6,305.20, for the purchase of a back-up data storage appliance.