County Won’t Close Veterans Office
Ventura County will not shut the Veterans Services Office in Oxnard in the near future as was proposed earlier this week, the county’s chief administrator said Thursday.
CAO Harry Hufford and Barbara Fitzgerald, head of the county’s Human Services Agency, met with veterans and agreed to keep a central veterans services office open.
The Board of Supervisors was besieged by veterans at its meeting Tuesday. The veterans opposed a plan to close down the central office and provide veterans services from facilities scattered across the county. The closure would have saved the county $10,000 a year. The veterans said they needed one place to come and get everything taken care of by claims experts.
Fitzgerald said she, Hufford and the veterans agreed there would continue to be just one central service building, though if all parties agree it may someday be moved to another location.
“We committed to one place at a mutually agreed upon location,” Fitzgerald said. “There will be a single veterans service center.”
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