Larry Pack

A vote in the November 3rd general election could send millions of dollars to Mason County Schools.

State Treasurer Larry Pack says that due to the wording of a bill passed regarding data centers, county schools with excess levies are able to keep the increase in tax revenue if the excess school levy is passed, something he says lawmakers may revisit in the future.

I do think it's going to get revisited next year that maybe the that the Board of Education should be cut in at all, or maybe we just reverse it all and it goes back to the way it was, where basically all the money stays in the county.

Pack says it is an unintended consequence of the data center law.

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Treasurer Larry Pack released Tuesday a tax analysis report on two data center projects in Mason County, the N-Scale Monarch Project and the Starwood Tamarack Project.

The analysis places the total tax income from the two projects at over $231 million annually.

That is a fraction of the roughly $77 billion the companies plan to invest developing the data centers.

And so I've been talking about that since my arrival at Tech, but I had more vision than I had actual resources.

And so working with a 1979 graduate of WVU Tech, Larry Pack, and his lovely wife, Lisa, who's a graduate of the University of Charleston.

Right.

They agreed to give us $1.8 million of their own personal money in cash to help fund this initiative that I call the Golden Scholars.

And so I started using this concept.

I actually learned it when I was the provost at Fort Valley State University, uh, Communiversity.

Dr. Larry Rivers was a previous president there.

And, uh, really I defined this concept Communiversity, where I believe the community is the university and the university is the community.

good deal.

You ever hear of a guy named Larry Pack?

I have not.

Oh.