HUNTINGTON — Twelve West Virginians who are Vietnam veterans are among nearly 600 set to be inducted into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s “In Memory” program.
Police budgets: What do Mineral County s towns get for their money?
Barbara High
Tribune Staff Writer
West Virginia municipalities finalized their budgets in March. As the News Tribune compared their budgets, specifically examining the funds set aside for their respective police departments, we wondered: What does each of the towns get for their money?
The law enforcement budgets are used for salaries, uniforms and equipment, vehicles, and maintenance. As the populations of West Virginia’s cities and towns have decreased, however, so has the share of money available for law enforcement. In 1977, municipalities comprised almost half of police spending in the entire state, compared to 39 percent in 2017, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy.
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A few weeks ago, we ran an editorial praising the City of Keyser and the Mineral County Board of Education for taking their meetings online as the county’s positive COVID numbers continued to skyrocket.
It was the right thing to do in order to help secure their own safety, not to mention the safety of anyone wishing to attend their meetings, and it also fell in line with regulations set forth by the West Virginia Open Meetings Act, in that it made the meetings accessible to the public.
Granted, the Keyser City Council hit an annoying sound snag during the live streaming of their Dec. 9 meeting, but they were able to fix it and we trust it will not be a problem for their next meeting in January.