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Source: Dayton Daily News, OhioOct.self storage 10--Officials at the Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Medical Center requested funding for 5,000 pre-paid movie tickets two days into the government shutdown and suspended the program only after being questioned about it by the Journal-News.The Cincinnati Veteran Affairs Medical Center requested funding for 5,000 pre-paid movie tickets to be part of an annual employee recognition program.The request for the movie tickets was made Oct. 2, but a spokeswoman confirmed today, however, that the annual rewards program has been suspended."(The decision) was probably made yesterday because we were discussing it and reviewing the program and what your questions were," Denise Kerr, the spokeswoman for the Cincinnati medical center, told a Journal-News reporter Thursday.The VA medical center is fully operational, despite the shutdown, and, "the majority of employees will be able to continue to provide excellent health care and services to the Veterans we serve," Kerr said."We are sensitive to the current climate and timing surrounding furloughs and the government," Kerr said in a statement of the decision to suspend the program. "The procurement had be迷利倉n planned well before the current financial crisis."The medical center, which employs 2,271 employees, requested 5,000 of Cinemark Platinum Supersaver Prepaid Admission tickets, which would allow employees to see any movie, at any time in the Greater Cincinnati region, according to a government website.The tickets typically cost $7.50 each, according to the business' website, which means taxpayers could pay more than $37,000 for the 5,000 movie tickets.The Cincinnati VA Medical Center was the only Ohio center to make such a request during the shutdown, which began Oct. 1, according to government records. Only six federal government requests for purchase orders have been made in the state of Ohio since the shutdown began, and all of have come from the Department of Veterans Affairs.Officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base made a request for medical center furniture on Oct. 7, during the shutdown. An estimate for the furniture will not be available until Oct. 18, according to government records.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) Visit the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) at .daytondailynews.com Distributed by MCT Information Services自存倉