ELDERLY AFFAIRS What's been cut

The Trumbull County Office of Elderly Affairs has made changes in the way it transports people and delivers meals:
The money it receives from the county's general fund is being cut $60,000 this year.
Laid off are a full-time clerk/dispatcher and three full-time van drivers. One full-time driver is part time. A part-time driver is laid off.
The remaining part-timers got their hours reduced. There were 45 paid staff combined in the transportation and nutrition programs before the layoffs.
Remaining in the transportation program are one full-time van driver, one full-time grants administrator/bookkeeper and three part-time drivers working reduced shifts.
Eliminated are two van routes that take people to meal sites and deliver meals (Niles and Morrison Village/SCOPE Center).
One of two Dial-a-Ride van routes to medical, rehabilitative and therapeutic facilities also is eliminated.
Reduced from five to three days a week is the Cortview/Kinsman van that also takes passengers to a meal site and delivers meals to the homebound.
The van stop at the Cortview Village site in Cortland, which had been served Thursdays and Fridays, is eliminated.
The Kinsman site will continue being served Monday through Wednesday.
Cut back is the fixed-scheduled Warren van, which went from three to two days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays, Friday eliminated).
ADDITIONAL SALES TAX
Trumbull County collects a half-percent sales tax. Public hearings on collecting an additional half-percent tax will be at 10 a.m. Friday and 6 p.m. March 22 at the county administration building, 160 High St. N.W. Proceeds from the tax, if enacted, would be used to maintain functions of county government, where layoffs and reduced hours are also affecting the sheriff, 911 Center, treasurer, auditor, recorder and other offices.