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Senior nutrition program struggles with growing wait list; commissioners decline short-term lapsed-salary funding
Summary
Union County senior nutrition staff reported a wait list of about 590 people and described outreach and partner-seeking efforts; a staff proposal to use roughly $68,000 in lapsed-salary funds to feed 10 additional clients now and seek $258,000 in next year’s budget was not supported by commissioners, staff said.
Senior nutrition staff told the advisory board they are working through a growing waiting list and seeking partners and grants to expand Meals on Wheels services after one-time county funding was not approved.
Stephanie Starr, the Community Support and Outreach director, told the board the department "currently have[s] 590 on the wait list. We started with 608. We added 25, and we took 43 off." She described a multi-step outreach effort that had contacted 76 seniors and removed 43 from the wait list after verification; 28 people remained completely unreachable and about 40 were in the process of verification.
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