State VA selects Wiregrass region for new $60 million veterans home

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Jul 16 2019 12:44 PM

NOTE:   Ozark Mayor Bob Bunting has been working on this project for months in order to submit a proposal for this to be constructed in Ozark. The Houston County Commission was set to endorse this endeavor for Ozark.

Then Dothan - Houston County officials, who apparently were asleep, woke up and realized this was a bigger project then they thought. Then the knife blades came flying out from the politicians in order to try to defeat Ozark Mayor Bob Bunting in his hard work for months in working on this project being built in Ozark.

So Ozark Mayor Bob Bunting has realized the way some of these areas perform, back stabbers from the first place.

While Houston County had this item on the agenda endorsing Ozark, when they realized it the item was quickly removed from the Houston County Commission agenda.

WHAT YOU WILL HEAR FROM THOSE IN POWER 

We support the "region". That statement is made when another city wins. But the powers to be locally snaked Mayor Bob Bunting in this project. And Bunting had worked hard to get a proposal together for this project.

State VA selects Wiregrass region for new $60 million veterans home

The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday announced plans to build a new approximately $60 million veterans home in one of nine Southeast Alabama counties. 

The new nursing home is to be set on at least 27 acres and will care for between 150 and 175 elderly veterans, joining the other existing four homes owned and overseen by the state DVA. 

“To think that we’re going to add more capacity, it warms my heart,” said state DVA commissioner Kent Davis speaking by phone Monday. “It’s a good thing. This is a good use of taxpayer dollars.” 

A long-term feasibility study completed in 2018 found that a new veterans home is needed to be able to meet the demands of the state’s aging veteran population, Davis said. The study’s goal was to target the state’s needs as far into the future as 2045. 

Researchers found that the Wiregrass region was especially in need of the facility. The region includes the counties Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva, Houston and Pike. 

A detailed list of requirements for submitting proposals to the state department for the new home was sent to those nine counties on Monday. Any cities or county governments in those counties have until Aug. 15, 2019, to submit proposals. 

The state DVA will evaluate proposals based upon five categories, which include the favorability of the land, transportation access, available workforce in that area, nearby specialized healthcare services and any other factors identified by the proposer, such as letters of support and financial incentives offered by the applicant.  

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