The Kanawha County Commission has spent about $800,000 on flood cleanup so far, county officials announced at a County Commission meeting Thursday.
The commission proceeded to transfer $300,000 out of the stabilization fund with the knowledge that they will have more expenses as the cleanup continues.
"We're at $800,000 and we're still not close to getting all the invoices," said Commissioner Dave Hardy.
The majority of the county's payments, about $500,000, have been to Waste Management for debris cleanup.
The county spent another $110,000 on the Clendenin Fire Department, the town of Clendenin and the Elk River Community Center.
Commission President Kent Carper said the community center would be able to serve lunches to senior citizens as early as Tuesday.
So far, the walls have been painted and the center is drying out. The floors are going in on Friday and the carpet will be installed next week.
"It's a remarkable transformation," Carper said.
The community center is in Elkview, one of the hardest hit parts of Kanawha County.
At the recommendation of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department, the county will be discontinuing the health tent in Clendenin after Sunday.
The shelter at Capital High School is also slowly starting to wind down. Right now, there are 53 people still staying there.
They are among the 1,030 people that FEMA reported have been displaced by the floods in Kanawha County.
So far, 1,673 people have applied for individual assistance from FEMA, according to County Manager Jennifer Sayre.
"There are still many who have not submitted their applications," Sayre said.
The commission chose not to vote on how to resolve the issue with people voting in the wrong delegate districts until August 10.
About 500 people voted in the wrong delegate district in the 2016 primary and about 130 have been voting in the wrong district since 2012 because of confusion over state code.
Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick presented a solution that would create Precincts 240A and 240B to ensure that voters in Precinct 240, who have been voting in the wrong district since 2012, would be able to keep the same polling place, but have the correct ballot.
She also presented a solution where she would restore Precinct 277 into three separate precincts, which was how the Precinct was divided in previous elections.
The county hired Jo Vaughan, who did the mapping for the state in 2011, and Doug McKenzie, who works for the secretary of state, to help the county draw the new precincts.
Carper said the county received a letter from one Republican delegate candidate who asked the county not to create new precincts for the people who voted in the wrong delegate districts.
"I don't understand it," Carper said, "but he has a right to his opinion."
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