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Article: SDC distributes air conditioners Officials blame agency for unnecessary delay
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 8, 1996
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The Social Development Commission began distributing 110 air
conditioners intended for the needy on Wednesday as state and county
officials heatedly blamed the agency for a bureaucratic bungle in
unnecessarily delaying the giveaways.
The county Department on Aging, meanwhile, was swamped with phone
calls from hundreds of elderly people in need of air conditioners in
the current hot spell, including some emergency cases, an official
said.
The calls came after SDC announced Tuesday it would not distribute
the warehoused units until the county gave SDC written authorization
and unless someone declared a "heat emergency."
As it turned out, SDC didn't need either.
"If someone would have just ...