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The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is an agency of the government of Oklahoma.Under the supervision of the Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Human Services, Oklahoma Human Services is responsible for providing help to individuals and families in need through public assistance programs and managing services for seniors and people with disabilities.
Pottawatomie County was carved out of land originally given to the Creek and Seminole after their forced removal from Georgia and Florida.After the Civil War, the Creek and Seminole were forced to cede their lands back to the federal government, and the area of Pottawatomie County was used to resettle the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes.
The department is led by the Secretary of Health and the Commissioner of Health. Oklahoma law requires the Commissioner of Health to have professional expertise as any of the following: 1) an actively licensed physician (MD/DO), 2) a doctoral-level degree holder in public health or public health administration, 3) a masters' degree holder with a minimum of five years experience in ...
Construction on the Pottawatomie County Administration Building continues as Lippert Bros Inc. finishes erecting the steal framing of the building.
The Pottawatomie County Board of County Commissioners voted to remove both public comments and commissioners comments from future public meeting agendas during their regular meeting Monday, March 21.
The Pottawatomie County Board of County Commissioners approved grant funds to the County Emergency Management office during a regular meeting Monday.
A few years after statehood, a constitutional amendment allowed them to be abolished on a county-by-county basis, and by the mid-1930s, all Oklahoma counties had voted to do so. [3] According to the Oklahoma Constitution, a county can be disorganized if the sum of all taxable property is less than $2.5 million. If so, then a petition must be ...
Shawnee (Meskwaki: Shânîheki [4]) is a city in and the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. [5] The population was 29,857 in 2010, a 4.9 percent increase from the figure of 28,692 in 2000. [6]