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Corrections to present food-service contract change and continued Ecology grant for offender work crews

5578561 · August 12, 2025
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The corrections director briefed commissioners on a new food-service pricing arrangement with Trinity and a continuing two-year Department of Ecology grant that reimburses the county for work-crew litter-removal programs; no formal approvals were recorded in the workshop.

Cowlitz County corrections leadership told commissioners Monday that the county’s food-service vendor, Trinity, will raise rates for juvenile and adult meals under a new contract structure, and that the department will continue using a Department of Ecology grant to reimburse work-crew litter removal. “Currently the price we're paying for juvenile is $2… the new price is $2.07,” the director of corrections reported about juvenile meals; for adult meals the county is moving from a fixed price of $1.96 to a…

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