Spirit Lake, Iowa — A representative of an agency that provides transportation services to a good deal of northwest Iowa says they will soon be facing some difficult decisions. Cindy Vos of RIDES:
Vos says several factors have led up to the difficulties, including covid, reductions in state and federal funding, and more notably, according to Vos, is a transition to a state brokered system for those with disabilities, making them no longer able to choose their own source of transportation.
Vos says they will soon start the agonizing process of trying to determine which services could be reduced or eliminated.
Vos adds there’s one thing in particular that concerns them when it comes to the situation…
Vos added that any reduction in transportation services for dialysis patients would be the very last thing RIDES would consider.
Vos made her comments during an annual update at Tuesday morning’s Dickinson County Board of Supervisors meeting.
(Courtesy fellow Community First Broadcasting station KUOO in Spirit Lake)
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