Chances are strong that West Virginia lawmakers will spend part of this month’s interims sessions taking up a plan to resolve a municipal police and fire pension crisis, Gov. Joe Manchin disclosed Monday.
“It looks promising,” Manchin said, as he prepared to brief a middle school audience in Shady Spring on the state’s efforts to deal with the threat of influenza.
“They’re going to have something. I haven’t heard exactly, but I know it’s been very progressive. Hopefully, we’ll know this week, or the first of next for sure. It looks positive.”
Manchin said a special session, dovetailing with the Nov. 17-19 interims, is “highly likely” to deal with troubled pension plans that are threatening to push some West Virginia cities into bankruptcy.
See the complete story in Tuesday's edition of The Register-Herald.
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