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Board approves $10,000 from Supervisor district funds for Grace & Mercy Charitable Foundation
Summary
The board approved use of $10,000 from the District 4 supervisorial allocation to support Grace & Mercy Charitable Foundation; the foundation described expanded meal and senior services and requested ongoing support amid rising supply costs.
San Joaquin County supervisors approved a consent-item request to allocate $10,000 from the District 4 supervisorial discretionary funds to Grace & Mercy Charitable Foundation, a Stockton‑area nonprofit that provides meals and other services to residents experiencing food insecurity and seniors.
Cheryl Francis, president and founder of Grace & Mercy, told the board the organization operates a meals‑delivery program for seniors, distributes weekly food boxes for families and provides items and hygiene kits to people living outdoors. Francis said the group picks up donated food from roughly 15 stores, operates a program called SOS (Serving Our Seniors) and prepares meals for other local access centers.
Francis said the nonprofit has absorbed rising supply costs and used personal funds to cover shortfalls; she told supervisors the group spent about $17,000 on supplies in the prior nine months and that food‑container vendors that previously provided in‑kind support have closed. Supervisor Rickman and Supervisor Ding praised the organization and said the county’s board‑priority guidance emphasizes using public and nonprofit partnerships to move people off the streets and into shelters and services.
The $10,000 allocation was pulled from consent for brief discussion and then approved as part of the consent calendar; county staff said the appropriation comes from a supervisorial discretionary account and does not change the county’s general‑fund budget.
