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County commissioners are bracing for an increase in their jail bills on July 1 even as they work with local officials and plea with state lawmakers for relief


An already unpredictable and sizeable cost for county taxpayers in West Virginia is about to take up even more of county budgets.
The daily rate to incarcerate an inmate in one of the state’s 10 regional jails increases by almost 14% on July 1.
County commissioners throughout the state learned in the spring the Legislature would not act to keep a cap on the daily rate, commonly referred to as the per diem rate, established in a 2018 law. Come July 1, the daily incarceration rate will increase from $48.25 to $54.88, based on the most recent calculations by the State Budget Office.
“I don’t know how some of these counties are going to survive this situation,” said Logan County Commission President Danny Godby. “It’s gotten to be a point to where all you’re going to be able to do is keep the offices open and not provide any activity for the general public . I don’t know what’s going to happen.” ....

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House leaders to pursue 'fairly aggressive' agenda in 2021 session | News


CHARLESTON — The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare a lot of issues that West Virginia House of Delegates majority leaders want to tackle as they “work a fairly aggressive agenda fairly early” during the 2021 legislative session.
Leading the top priorities of the Republican-led House are supporting the expansion of broadband and, like their peers in the Senate, addressing the executive powers of the governor, decreasing licensing requirements for certain occupations, and expanding charter schools.
House Republican and Democratic leaders talked with members of the media Wednesday during the second day of the annual Legislative Lookahead organized by the West Virginia Press Association. ....

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