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Union County volunteer urges Indian Trail to fund 77 seniors on nutrition waiting list
Summary
A Union County volunteer asked the Indian Trail Town Council to budget $100,000 to clear a waiting list of 77 local seniors for the county senior nutrition program; speaker provided local delivery counts and argued the program is a lifeline for homebound seniors.
At the start of public comment, Gary Sides, a longtime Union County volunteer, asked the Indian Trail Town Council to consider a $100,000 allocation in the town’s next budget to reduce a waiting list for Union County’s senior nutrition program.
Sides said the county’s program provides five meals a week to vetted seniors: hot meals delivered to nearby residents, frozen meals for those farther out, and congregate meals at local meeting sites. He said the county program uses a vendor for deliveries in outlying areas and maintains local meeting sites at the Methodist Church and the Baysmore Center.
Sides provided locality-specific figures: 27 home-delivered meals in Indian Trail, 26 congregate-site recipients at the Methodist Church in town, and 77 Indian Trail residents currently on a waiting list. He estimated the town’s share of funding to eliminate the waiting list at $100,000 and invited staff to use a waiting-list breakdown the speaker said his office could provide.
The speaker urged the council to consider either using fund balance now or budgeting the amount in the next fiscal year. He described the meals as a critical support that helps some seniors remain in their homes. Councilors thanked him for the information; no formal motion or funding decision was made during the meeting.
