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New Harrison County Animal Control facility to be built at old Sunset Ellis Restaurant

CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) – The Harrison County Commission approved funding for a major project, made a proclamation to honor an important community member and voted to move forward with a new tax program during a meeting on Wednesday. The commission officially approved the location for the new animal control facility, which will be on Route 19, where the former Sunset Ellis Restaurant and Drive-In was located before a fire caused it to close in the fall. The budget for that project is more than $2.9 million. Several times in the past year, the Harrison County Animal Control has been at capacity and almost had to euthanize dogs because it had nowhere for them to go. Crews respond to suspicious fire on old rail bridge in Clarksburg Also during the meeting on Wednesday, the Harrison County Commission made a proclamation that Feb. 5 be recognized as Jim Jerrett Day in the county in honor of the man who helped revolutionize the emergency communication system in the region. The commission also voted to move forward with a new program, GovWell, an online portal for taxpayers of Harrison County in order to make it easier for people to apply, receive and track the whole process of permits for residential and commercial property. 'Right now the process is actually a manual process, you come in to the planning department, you file for the permit, we give you the permit on hand and then—but this is just a simpler way—for example, we've had this extreme weather these last couple of weeks if you wanted to be able to do it all online you can do that. Typically, players in the office will research things on that property, but this system will automatically pull up that stored information about that piece of property,' Grants & Planning Dept. Member Christina Murphy said. The program is set to launch in a few months, as all the geographical information system (GIS) data mapping in the county has to be imported into the system. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.