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Cabell County residents and businesses with landline phones can expect to see an increase on their phone bills.
The Herald-Dispatch reports that the Cabell County Commission voted Thursday to increase the landline tariff for residential and business lines in order to compensate for an anticipated $43,000 increase in next year’s medical insurance for emergency response employees.
The fee has been raised from $2.50 per month for residential lines to $7 and from $3 for business lines to $9.50.
The emergency response center has only two sources of revenue for their roughly $3 million budget — the fees on landlines and the $3 state fee on wireless plans.
Mike Davis, director of the county response center, says if the fee increase wasn’t passed, five employees would have to be let go.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey told the summit Thursday he wants to make West Virginia “the shining state in the mountains.”
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