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Residents urge changes to senior food vouchers and raise staffing and budget concerns during public comment
Summary
Two residents used public comment time to urge wider access to senior food vouchers, raise concerns about surveillance spending at the county jail and warn that a recent $8.5 million budget cut hampers county staffing as the population grows.
During the public comment period at the Franklin County commissioners meeting, two residents urged changes to senior food voucher rules and raised concerns about county staffing and spending priorities.
Valerie Jordan of Fayetteville told commissioners she emailed them earlier about vouchers distributed to senior citizens for weekend food markets. Jordan said she discovered she did not qualify when she visited a food market and that the pantry required income verification. She…
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