LOGAN — Logan County Prosecuting Attorney David Wandling, who also serves as counsel to the county commission, urged commissioners on Monday to give better oversight into the finances of county
LOGAN â Logan County will not lose the Tri-River Transit bus service, despite the public transit line item in the 2021-22 budget reading $0.
Tri-River Transit, based in Hamlin, is a bus service that provides low-cost transportation to residents of Logan, Lincoln, Boone, Mason and Wayne counties. In the Logan County Commissionâs 2021-2022 budget, which was approved March 26 and will go into effect July 1, public transit is listed as $0, in comparison to $40,000 from the coal severance budget in the previous budget.
During public comments at Mondayâs regular session of the commission, Cora resident Boothe Davis asked commissioners about the line item. Davis said he is a regular user of Tri-Riverâs services.
LOGAN â The Logan County Commission recently voted to participate in WV Checkbook, an online tool through the West Virginia State Auditorâs Office that aims to provide better transparency to the public regarding the countyâs finances and spending.
Commissioners were first presented with WV Checkbook by State Auditor J.B. McCuskey during a regular meeting Nov. 5, 2018. McCuskey made a statewide blitz for WV Checkbook at that time, visiting numerous governmental agencies in all 55 counties, which also included the Logan County Board of Education on Oct. 25, 2018.
The tool allows such government agencies to upload all their financial information on their own designated website where the public can then see how and where money is being spent. Site visitors can even use a form on the website to ask questions, which McCuskey has hailed as an alternate to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.