The West Virginia Courtesy patrol has been left with no funding
for the next fiscal year, but a state official says the problem will be
remedied.
The Courtesy Patrol is a
welfare-to-work initiative that provides roadside assistance to motorists in West Virginia
Its current budget is $4.7 million.
Jason Pizatella is Gov. Earl Ray
Tomblin's deputy chief of staff. He says that the Legislature recently made
some changes to some lottery funds, including one that supports the Courtesy
Patrol.
He says neither the governor nor the
Legislature intended to leave the patrol unfunded, and the program is too
important to fall by the wayside.
He says Tomblin will ask lawmakers to
appropriate the money before the start of the new fiscal year July 1.
