Leaders with the Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging have decided to hire a part-time accountant to help with their finances.

This comes, after hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks went missing.

Everyone on the board agreed to the move Thursday.

This month, the main office staff took pay cuts, anywhere from 5 to 20 percent, to help alleviate some of the debt that SAAA has been trying to pay off.

So far, SAAA services are continuing and the number of seniors on waiting lists has remained steady.

However, case managers are re-evaluating those seniors to see who needs to be taken off.

Chairman of the Board John Hudson says, the agency is finding any way it can to save cash.

"Our request to mortgage this property for some funds, I talked with the lender this morning, and just for an update and she is hoping to have feedback to us by months end and then if thongs look good at that point then they will move ahead with an appraisal for the property," Hudson says.

Leaders also hope Warren County will make the organization tax exempt.

That would save more than 2,000 dollars.

They are also working with the Virginia Department on Aging to find more ways to get additional state and federal funding.