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Callahan County senior meal program asks commissioners for $200‑a‑month boost
Summary
Director Deborah Modrill told the commissioners court the county-funded senior meal program is operating “barely in the black” after rising food costs and requested an increase from $1,000 to $1,200 per month to help cover a roughly $6,000 annual food-cost increase.
Deborah Modrill, director of the Callahan County Nutrition Project, asked the commissioners court on July 14 for a $200 per‑month increase in county funding for the county’s senior meal program. Modrill said food costs for the program rose about 5 percent this year — “which is basically nearly $6,000 more than what we were budgeted for” — and that the program was “in the black, barely.”
Modrill said the county currently contributes $1,000 a month and she asked the court to consider raising that to $1,200. “I would like to continue to operate in the black,” she said. “Some months are red and some are black, but they’ve evened out.”
Why it matters: The court is finalizing a budget that the…
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