Mayor Tom Rowland stands in front of the shops of downtown Cleveland, Tenn.CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Good news for Montgomery County’s future veterans’ nursing home also is good news for Bradley County, veterans officials said Thursday.
In a letter to Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland, Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Many-Bears Grinder said the recent state legislative session in Nashville was good news for Bradley County’s future veterans’ nursing home.
Gov. Bill Haslam’s $31 billion state budget was approved with $23 million in state funding for the proposed home here. The funding remains allocated through 2015.
State funding is in place now for the Montgomery County/Clarksville facility, according to the letter. A designer has been approved by the State Buildings Commission. The plan should be finished by fall, the letter states. After the site gets final state approval from the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs “we can start the bidding process and find a general contractor,” Grinder said.
On May 30 the state applied for conditional grant approval from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Grinder said.