MORGANTOWN - Monongalia County Commissioner Sean Sikora said the county’s fiscal year 2025-’26 budget passed Wednesday was among the most challenging he’s experienced in the position. Sikora, who spearheads the budgeting process alongside County Administrator Rennetta McClure, noted ...
MORGANTOWN - The glass-half-full among us might say level, steady, consistent. The less optimistic might phrase it stagnant, static or stuck. Whatever words you prefer, when it comes to the city of Morgantown’s annual budget, the word chosen by the professionals in charge is ...
MORGANTOWN — The fiscal year 2025 budgets recently passed by the Morgantown Utility Board include 3% rate increases for the utility’s water, sewer and stormwater customers. This is the second of three “inflationary adjustments” approved by Morgantown City Council in 2021 along ...
MORGANTOWN — Despite holding the county’s base levy rates in place, the Monongalia County Commission anticipates a 15.38% jump in revenue in the next fiscal year. The commission on Wednesday passed a $44,244,654 spending plan for the 2025 fiscal year beginning July 1. As ...
West Virginia is ahead of a deadline this week to provide supporting documentation to the U.S. Department of Education over the state’s pledge to maintain proportional levels of support for education as a condition of federal COVID relief funds. State officials took note of an obligation ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia lawmakers passed a $4.96 billion general revenue budget Saturday in the final hours of the regular legislative session. The budget included average 5% pay raises for state employees and a three-year phase-out of state taxes on Social Security, both priorities ...