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Veterans director reports heavy transport workload, retroactive payments and contract authorization
Summary
Douglas Gibbs said two veterans require dialysis transport three times weekly and one requires cancer‑treatment transport five days weekly (44 trips total for three veterans); he also reported $5,885.42 in retroactive payments to Yates County veterans and advanced a contract authorization with Seasons on Keuka Lake.
Douglas Gibbs, representing Veterans Services, told the Human Services Committee the workload includes two veterans transported three times per week for dialysis and one veteran transported five days a week for cancer treatment, accounting for 44 trips among three veterans. Gibbs also reported $5,885.42 in retroactive payments made to Yates County veterans and noted that some non‑county veterans brought in about $140,000 in payments, which he does not include in county counts.
The committee accepted Gibbs’s report as information and had no objections to a resolution authorizing the Veterans Services Director and the chair to sign an agreement with Seasons on Keuka Lake; the meeting record also contains a proclamation designating June 14 as the U.S. Army Birthday in Yates County.
