Meeting minutes versus newspaper article

            For this project, I chose the Cabell County Commission and the meeting that was held on March 4, 2010.  The article about the commission meeting was in the Herald Dispatch and was written by Christian Alexandersen.

            The article written for the Herald Dispatch only focused on one part of the commission meeting.  This was the bids for a new ambulance station in Milton which would serve the city and the surrounding areas.  Alexandersen wrote about the bid process and the possible location for the ambulance station.   Within the article, there were interviews with two of the commissioners about their feelings concerning the ambulance station and the bid prospects, as well as numbers of what it typical when it comes to construction bids like these.

            While the ambulance station was a major part of the Cabell County Commission meeting, it is not the only topic that was discussed.  There were several new employment appointments, such as Denise G. Bias as a full-time EMT and Samuel Stowasser as a full-time Alternative Sentencing Officer for Home Confinement.

            There were also reappointments to the planning commission and a grant application approval for $15,000 toward improvements to the courthouse.  Another grant application for $2,000 toward a literacy program was also approved.  The Cabell County Commission also moved to approve increasing the county’s contribution to KYOVA from $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 for the development of a comprehensive multi-modal metropolitan transportation plan.

            While there were many things going on at the meeting, I can understand why Alexandersen chose to narrow the scope of his article to only write about the bids for the construction of an ambulance station.  It seemed from the minutes that this was what the main point of discussion was.