About the possible closing of the Eufaula Food Stamp Office

There are concerns that this will create a hardship on food stamp customers in the Eufaula area.

From http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2...9&PAG=461&rfi=9:
 
Barbour County Commissioner Berry Forte is upset about the possible closing of the Eufaula Food Stamp Office. He has launched a campaign to keep it open.
(...) After a story in last week's Tribune reported that cost-cutting measures being considered by the Department of Human Resources could include closing the Eufaula office, Forte went into action. He wrote a letter to Mary Russ, director of the Barbour County DHR, stating his opposition, and he plans to lobby all the way to Montgomery to keep it from happening.
If the satellite office is closed, the only food stamp office in the county will be in the DHR building on the outskirts of Clayton, near the jail and farm center.
"I'm highly opposed, and I'm going to do all I can to keep it open. I had to work too hard to get it back over here 12 years ago," Forte said.

It's a shame to think that elderly people will have to take charter transportation to go get their stamps. The threatened closing is a result of the voting-down of the tax increase.

09:37 AM