It's a fairly small set of offices and it's down to just 3½ employees due to county budget cuts. But good things keep on happening there. Take the $7 million in benefits awarded last fiscal year to county veterans. Work on obtaining those benefits was done in the county's veterans service offices, part of county's Department of Aging and Veterans Services.
The county Veterans Service Office assists veterans and their dependents with:
Much has been written about our region's disastrous housing market. One aspect absent from this important discussion is the Regional Housing Needs Assessment policy. This state policy requires cities and counties to zone adequate amounts of land and build supporting infrastructure to accommodate the population projections set by the state Department of Housing and Community Development.
