The legislature’s trip to North
Central West Virginia has come to an end.
The three-day interim session
concluded after legislators participated in various committee meetings and
visited locations which have been affected by bills they have passed, including
the tax increment financing legislation that allowed for the construction of a
baseball stadium in Morgantown
“We were fortunate enough to be over
there where they announced the formation of a minor league baseball team coming
to Morgantown
House Speaker Tim Miley was pleased
the session could take place in the area which he represents, so they could see
first hand the reason for the recent success.
“I was glad that my colleagues in both
the House and the Senate got the opportunity to come here to this part of the
state to see what’s occurring, what’s prospering and what’s working so well
that it might allow them to identify something or come back with ideas to their
own parts of the state and their own counties and districts,” he said.
The interim session was also the
first chance to look over the issues as a collective leading up to the regular
session in January.
“We’ve still got six more months to
go before we get into January for our first session. We’ll still have several
more monthly meetings,” Kessler said. “This is just the first one we’re really
starting to look at things substantively.”
Once the regular session does come
around, Miley hopes the legislators remember their time in North Central West
Virginia should the occasion arise.
“Things that we legislate such as
the tank bill, oil and gas drilling, Marcellus drilling, horizontal drilling,
they’ve had the opportunity to see some of those types of things here,” Miley
said. “If they are ever called on to legislate those areas, they will have a
perspective and know what they’re legislating.”
The next interim meetings are
scheduled for September 8 through September 10.
