Bel-O-Mar Interstate Planning Commission v. West Virginia Commission on Aging

(Filed Dec. 10, 1992)

The majority opinion implies that this reduction in services to the elderly was a result of legislative action. This was not the case. The record demonstrates that the executive director of the West Virginia Commission on Aging (WVCOA) was pressured into reducing the number of planning and service areas by several legislators after the legislature adjourned and after the Budget Digest was compiled.

The Budget Digest was the subject of our earlier case, Common Cause of West Virginia v. Tomblin, 186 W.Va. 537, 413 S.E.2d 358 (1991), in which the petitioners, nonprofit…