{"id":4930,"date":"2020-12-16T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T00:22:57","slug":"morgan-county-commission-picks-william-clark-as-new-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=4930","title":{"rendered":"Morgan County Commission Picks William Clark as New Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the courthouse in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia this morning, the Morgan County Commission picked William Clark, the outgoing executive director of the Eastern Panhandle Regional Planning and Development Council, to fill the seat of Ken Reed on the Morgan County Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/courthouse.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/courthouse.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4932\" width=\"369\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/courthouse.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/courthouse-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/courthouse-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed was elected to the House of Delegates in November and resigned from the Commission earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark will serve the remaining of Reed\u2019s term, though the end of 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioner Joel Tuttle said that Clark plans to run for re-election in November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuttle said that while there were four applicants, Clark\u2019s application package was \u201csimply outstanding.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were about twenty letters of recommendation, including three former County Commissioners,\u201d Tuttle said. \u201cI had people from all different backgrounds supporting Bill Clark, including Democrats and Republicans, including a sitting U.S. Senator. Two said that even though disagreed with him on politics, they highly recommended Bill Clark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne Democrat said \u2013 \u2018he would only be better if I could convince him to be a Democrat.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere are some words used to describe Bill Clark \u2013 level headed, fair, down to earth, strong character, calm, optimistic, selfless, congenial, indefatigable \u2013 I had to look that one up \u2013 hard working, professional, positive, communicator, seasoned administrator, great human being, team player, consensus builder.\u201d<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the courthouse in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia this morning, the Morgan County Commission picked William Clark, the outgoing executive director of the Eastern Panhandle Regional Planning and Development Council, to fill the seat of Ken Reed on the Morgan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=4930\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}