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With PEIA Task Force in hiatus for 6 weeks, WV senator calls on Justice to act

By PHIL KABLER

Charleston Gazette-Mail

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the PEIA Task Force coming up on a six-week hiatus without having any meetings, a state senator and task force member is asking Gov. Jim Justice for an explanation and calling for the governor’s office to schedule subcommittee meetings as soon as possible.

“I had conversations with people saying, ‘What’s going on?’ Finally, I got frustrated and sent the governor a letter,” Senate Finance Chairman Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, said Wednesday.

In his letter to Justice, Blair notes that the last scheduled meeting of the task force subcommittees on Sept. 18 was canceled, without notification from the governor’s office as to when it will be rescheduled.

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