Disability service providers ask for share of tax revenue
5/26/2009
DAVID CLOUSTON
Staff members and families served by Choices Network and Salina’s other for-profit disability service agencies aired their differences Tuesday with the way the county distributes tax revenue for services for people with mental and developmental disabilities.
They left the Saline County Commission meeting room with the same response from commissioners that’s been the county’s position the last five years — state law controls the utilization of those tax dollars, and the law says the county may only contract with a nonprofit provider.
“I’d suggest you start working with legislators and see if you can get some kind of modification of the statute that permits us to do some of the things you’re asking for,” Commissioner Jerry Fowler told Lori Blake, human resources coordinator at Choices Network, 122 N. Santa Fe.
Read the rest of this story in Wednesday's Salina Journal.
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