By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia finance panel of lawmakers will hold a hearing that will focus on the Governor’s Office’s transfer of $28.3 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus money that was unexpended at the federal spending deadline.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, announced on the Senate floor Wednesday that his committee will hold a budget hearing Friday morning that will scrutinize the shifting of the money to a Governor’s Office-controlled fund.
That fund, the Governor’s Office Gifts, Grants and Donations Fund, distributed $10 million to Marshall University days after that transfer last fall to support constructing a new baseball stadium.
“So there’s been a lot of questions around how all that happened, and we’re going to try to sort through all that,” Tarr said upon announcing Friday’s hearing…