UNIONVILLE, Mo. (AP) _ Advocates in many Missouri counties are pushing for starting tax-funded hot meal deliveries and other services for seniors.
Putnam is one of 46 counties in the state to earmark a sliver of tax revenues for such services in the nearly two decades since state lawmakers first gave approval.
In 2002, Putnam County voters approved a property tax levy of 5 cents per $100 of assessed value to pay for meal delivery, emergency heating aid, weather radios and other services for seniors 60 and older.
The popularity of the senior tax in those counties has emboldened elderly advocates to push for similar programs in the 68 other counties without levies.
