New grant helps local veterans

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff announced Monday a $468,736 grant to the Clay County Council on Aging to purchase buses and emergency communications equipment that will be used to serve the elderly, veteran and person with disabilities.

Administrator Rogoff's announcement follows President Obama's State of the Union address, in which he called for using funds saved from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay down the debt and to support a transportation bill that would clear the way for nation-building here in the United States.

The organization will use funds to help purchase seven buses, bringing the total number of vehicles in the fleet of 40.