ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Upcoming events and activities topped St. Clairsville City Council’s agenda on Monday.

The City Bike Parade will be held at 11 a.m. on June 29, which will also be the date of J.B. Martin Recreation Center’s Community Days. That event will include the Red White and Community Day 5K. Main Street will need to be closed for people of all ages to participate in riding their bikes in the parade.

On Monday evening, council voted on a motion to allow the parade as well as for the road to be closed.

Community Day is an all-day event that will include a plethora of activities that are fun for all ages, such as music performances, food vendors, craft fairs and more.

The events will end with fireworks at the St. Clairsville Amphitheater.

Council then proceeded into executive session for approximately an hour to speak about a personnel matter. After members returned from to open session, Mayor Kathryn Thalman officially announced that Service Director Jeremy Greenwood recently resigned.

“I guess there was not so nice stuff going on on social media. He took a new position, there was no malice or anything. He took a new position at Wright-Patterson (Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio). He’s going to be making a lot more than we were paying him, so I am happy for him and his family,” Thalman said.

“Where does that leave us?” she asked. “I think certainly poorer for his loss, but we’re going to have to find someone to fill the job.”

Resumes will continue to be accepted until this Friday, and Thalman said the city is specifically looking for someone who is able to communicate with sewer, street, water and electric employees, as well as someone who can write grant applications and complete Environmental Protection Agency paperwork in a correct and timely fashion.

“I especially thank Jeremy for this: He restored a working and a very trustful relationship with the EPA. I mean they had a sword to my neck when I was elected within a week of me being in office and he fixed that. He fixed a lot of what was wrong and fixed things that someone with his background could see and I couldn’t,” Thalman said.

She added that she has received 15 resumes for the position but is not able to start the interviewing process until after the cutoff date of this Friday.

The meeting ended with council members discussing the possibility of looking into applying for grants to potentially receive funding to fix the St. Clairsville train depot located on Sugar Street. The consensus of council was that even though the city applied for a couple of grants last year and did not receive them, they are very interested in applying again this year in an effort to get the historic site restored.