Service Officer's pay attention we need more like this

SERVICE OFFICER FIGHTS COUNTY, SAYS HE'LL SERVE

ALL VETERANS -- "When veterans come to me for help,

they will get it. If you want to reprimand me, for helping

people, you can. I won't stop helping them."

York News Times has an interesting article about a "dedicated" veteran service officer

YORK -- The county commissioners are going to draft policy ending York County services to out-of-county veterans and limiting the hours of service officer, Don Sandman.
But Sandman says he will not comply, even if that means they call for his dismissal.
In a heated discussion yesterday morning, the commissioners said they are concerned with the amount of time and resources that Sandman is taking to help veterans who don't live in York County. He acknowledges that one-third of the claims he has processed during his tenure are for veterans who don't live here. But he also says that the time spent for those veterans are his own, that they are above and beyond the 40 hours for which he is paid by the county.

"We began this discussion several weeks ago," said Commissioner Ken Stuhr, "first, regarding the location of the service office. Now, I have concerns about the workload at that office, because of out-of-county veterans seeking services here."

Stuhr said the county has long been asking other counties to financially compensate York County for those services, but they refuse to do so.

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