Projects, better organization for some services on the wish list for supervisors in 2018

Calhoun County Supervisor Carl Legore assumes the chairmanship for the board this year, his second year in office.
“It took awhile to learn the job,” Legore said.
But now, as he’s feeling more comfortable in the position, he said he’s seeing some areas of improvement that he hopes he and fellow supervisors can work on for the new year.
“One of the biggest things, it seems, statewide, things are organized inconveniently for us,” Legore said, referring to state-drawn lines for a number of social services, including public health, mental health and drug recovery programs. In the public health realm, for example, Calhoun County works closely with Webster and Pocahontas counties on a number of programs, but staffers have to head in the other direction, to Carroll County, for other services. Carroll County holds the state contract for the Women, Infants and Children program, Legore said, and Calhoun County also often works with New Opportunities, which is based in Carroll and offers services west and south of Calhoun County. Calhoun County is in the Rolling Hills mental health region, which includes counties to the north and west of here.
Service agency representatives have expressed their concerns in past months to the Board of Supervisors about how some services are duplicated, or how agencies in different regions aren’t able to work with each other, because of different restrictions. 
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