The Greenbrier County Commission, on Tuesday, reappointed five community members to various county boards: Jennifer Mason for another three-year-term with the Greenbrier Valley Economic Development Corporation, Lucy Refsland for another three-year-term with the Solid Waste Authority, and Jordan Ross for another five-year-term with PSD #2. Josh Peplowski and Russell Conquist were also each reappointed for another three-year-term with the County Planning Commission.
In other business, commissioners approved the County Sheriff Department’s VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) grant application for the amount of $50, 214, adjusted the county’s 2026-2027 arts and recreation disbursement from approximately $385,000, to slightly over $411,000 to correct a previous error, and withdrew their consent for the county’s participation in the Tris MLA opioid litigation.
“That’s the opioid litigation that we entered into eight or nine years ago,” Commission President Lowell Rose explained. “Out attorney who is representing the county in this is recommending that we withdraw our prior consent to participate in this one part of it.”
Commissioner Richie Holliday further clarified that withdrawing the county’s consent to participate does not cancel the ongoing litigation, but rather removes one single defendant from liability.
Consideration of mowing and trimming proposals for the Meadow River Trail were tabled until a later date, and a funding request for the Greenbrier State Forest Trails project was withdrawn, thus removing it from the agenda.
Commissioners tentatively scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday, July 7 at 6 p.m. at the Underwood Building at the State Fair of West Virginia to discuss the updated zoning ordinance. The next regular meeting of the Greenbrier County Commission is scheduled for the same day at 10 a.m., in the commission chamber.
