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Veterans and residents question Polk County reduction of veteran services staff, ask for clarity
Summary
Several residents at the Oct. 7 Polk County commissioners meeting criticized the county’s reduction from two veteran service officers to one, called the change a setback for veterans, and asked commissioners for details; the board characterized the matter as personnel-related and provided limited public detail.
Veterans and residents told the Polk County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 7 that reducing the county’s veteran services staffing from two positions to one has harmed service continuity and left families without clear assistance.
Andy Strass, a Dallas resident, described a decades-old family struggle to locate and document a burial marker for a child born while his father served in the Air Force and credited county assistance in retrieving records: “He tried his hardest,” Strass said of a county staffer who helped his…
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