Resiliency Center Not Used for Polar Vortex

January 31, 2025
MOVCAC Contributor: Sean P. Keefe

As a result of the Covid pandemic in 2020, federal budgets ballooned by around two trillion dollars. Prior to 2020 our federal government never spent more than $4.5 trillion. After the pandemic, our federal government has never spent less than $6.01 trillion. Part of that funding created by Covid was used in Parkersburg to build the new Resiliency Center on the banks of the Little Kanawha River.

In an article published by WTAP in September of 2022, County Commission President Blair Couch noted that the new $13 million facility could be used for the following issues:

• Vaccine Distribution
• Flu Shots
• Food Distribution
• Meeting Spaces
• Warming Station
• Cooling Station

Mr. Couch’s quote in the article concluded with, “But the whole idea is, there’s nothing like this in Wood County. The ability to respond to different issues, that’s why it’s resilient.”