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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 stateâs 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.
âI donât know how some of these counties are going to survive this situation,â said Logan County Commission President Danny Godby. âItâs gotten to be a point to where all youâre going to be able to do is keep the offices open and not provide any activity for the general public . I donât know whatâs going to happen.â
LOGAN — The Logan County Commission on Monday voted unanimously to employ Alvis Porter Jr. as county administrator, replacing Rocky Adkins, who is being reassigned into a different position.
âLetâs talk trash.â
Trash was indeed the subject addressed by some county officials at a recent public meeting hosted by Logan County Commissioner Diana Barnette in which the subject of littering and illegal garbage disposal in Logan County were the issues.
Present for the discussion were representatives of the Department of Natural Resources, the Logan County Commission, Logan Prosecuting Attorney David Wandling, two Logan County House of Delegates members, a state Department of Highways official, a Waste Management representative, State Sen. Rupie Phillips, and all three Logan County magistrates.
In the audience were at least two Logan County mayors, Logan County Clerk John Turner, several businessmen, teachers and other concerned citizens who either posed questions or presented their ideas as to how to address the littering and trash problem in the county.
LOGAN â Trash cleanup efforts have continued heavily in Logan County throughout the month of April.
During the Logan County Commissionâs regular session Monday, April 26, county code enforcer Ray Perry detailed several of the recent trash cleanup events. He started with a cleanup Saturday, April 24, by Alpha Natural Resources from the Ralph R. Willis Career and Technical School to the Appalachian Outpost exit on new W.Va. 10, as well as Rum Creek.
On Thursday, April 22, Perry said the City of Logan Fire Department collected half a ton of garbage from the old State Police bridge, the W.Va. 44/73 intersection and the lower Fountain Place Mall (Tractor Supply) exit.