Paw Paw Township To Start Its Own Senior Services

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Senior Services of Van Buren County will end service in Paw Paw tomorrow. Paw Paw Township will start its own service. Township treasurer Lisa Zinkil tells WWMT-TV that Senior Services of Van Buren County wanted to ask for a one mill tax rate for eight years for funding and says that’s “a lot to ask for taxpayers when times are very tougher now.” Clerk Rebecca Payne adds they feel Senior Services “would like to see us fail,” but executive director Diana Rigozzi disputes that. Rigozzi says that is not true and says they have given the township anything they’ve asked for. Voters in the township approved a half-mill tax rate for two years for the new senior services program. It will start January 1 and bring in $134,000 a year.