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Council hears updates on seniors, transit, animal shelter and wastewater pretreatment
Summary
The Sedalia City Council received presentations on five senior-policy priorities, OATS Transit operations and subsidy request, the animal shelters new in-house spay/neuter services, and recommended updates to the industrial pretreatment program required by state regulators.
At its Nov. 20 meeting, the Sedalia City Council heard multiple presentations that outlined community needs and policy requests for the coming year.
Renee Vance, representing the Care Connection Area Agency on Aging, presented five legislative priorities adopted by Missouris Silver Haired Legislature: raising the Medicaid personal needs allowance to $70 with a cost-of-living adjustment, funding preventive foot care for eligible seniors, raising income and asset eligibility for aged and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries to 100% of the federal poverty level, establishing a full property tax exemption for veterans with 100% VA-rated service-connected disabilities, and expanding the resident dwelling accessibility tax credit (currently capped statewide at $100,000 per year). Vance said these priorities aim to…
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