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For Immediate Release
May 24, 2010
Contact: Sally Kohr
(717) 787-4651

Alloway Announces Proposal for Veterans' Facility on SSVC Property 

HARRISBURG – Senator Richard Alloway II (R-33) announced a proposal today to establish a veterans' facility on the former Scotland School for Veterans' Children campus.

Alloway proposes turning the property over to a private foundation to create the Scotland Center for Veterans' Services that could include housing, job training, long-term care and medical facilities for veterans and  an educational component. 

Other facilities on the 183-acre, 70-building property could also be used for office suites, professional services and higher education.

"The Scotland School campus is a valuable taxpayer asset and an important part of our community, and we should not allow these facilities to fall into a state of disrepair," Alloway said. "My proposal would create a self-sustaining set of facilities that would offer vital services to veterans without adding to the tax burden on local families.  No taxpayer dollars would be used to sustain the facility."

Under Alloway's proposal, the startup costs and annual operations funding for the Scotland Center for Veterans' Services would come from an amendment that Alloway would offer to pending legislation in the Senate that would expand the state's small games of chance law. The amendment would dedicate 15 percent of the expanded small games of chance revenue to the Scotland Center for Veterans' Services.

"Many service organizations have advocated for raising the limits on small games of chance in order to raise more money for some very worthy causes and I strongly support that idea," Alloway said. "My proposed amendment to the small games of chance law would make more money available for these service organizations and make new services available to Pennsylvania veterans."