Mountain State Spotlight – In Logan County, an outdoor theater production got $7,000 for new lights. In Kenova, $21,150 went towards paving the library’s parking lot. In the Eastern Panhandle, Berkeley County received around $150,000 for park and baseball field improvements. And just 10 miles from the Capitol, the Kanawha County Commission will use $1 million to expand the kitchen and bathrooms at the Shawnee Sports Complex in Dunbar.
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And over the last couple of years, millions have gone towards a race car sponsorship.
What all these expenditures have in common is that they were funded through the Governor’s Civil Contingent Fund. This little-known pot of money is both the state’s main account to handle natural disasters — and also essentially money for the governor to spend mostly as he wishes.
