HUNTINGTON â Thursdayâs Cabell County Commission agenda listed an executive session regarding possible litigation involving the countyâs airport authority, but when commissioners returned from behind closed doors, no action was taken.
âIt appears we have nothing to place on record,â said Cabell County Commission President Jim Morgan.
Controversy regarding the airport authority erupted in November last year after the commission attempted to pass a resolution to dissolve it permanently.
At that November meeting, nearly two dozen people spoke against the resolution and felt it was an attempt that would also lead to terminating the 30-year lease agreement the airport authority has with Carl Bailey, owner of the Fly In Cafe at the Robert Newlon Airfield.
West Virginia is incarcerating more people than its regional jail system is meant to hold, and it is costing some county governments more money than they can pay.
At least 10 counties in West Virginia are more than 90 days past due on a combined $9 million in jail bills, according to the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security. That agency covers the balance with taxpayer money when payments come up short.
From 2000 to 2019, West Virginiaâs jail population increased by 81% according to a report by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. That follows a longer national trend, Quenton King, criminal justice policy analyst for the center, wrote in the report.