W. Va. Rec Department Using Study to Leverage Funding

After suffering through annual budget cuts and revenue reductions, administrators at a West Virginia parks and recreation department are hoping to use the results of a recent Marshall University Study to leverage more financial support.

A study prepared in December by Marshall assistant professor Richard Abel compared the amount of 2009-10 fiscal year per capita local tax support for recreation services in eight West Virginia communities ranging in 2009 estimated population from 5,540 (City of New Martinsville) to 191,663 (Kanawha County). Abel told the Hagerstown, Md.-based Herald-Mail that residents of Martinsburg-Berkely County are getting a particularly "big bang for their dollar."

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