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Community Action Agency seeks funds to expand farmers market, WIC and mobile market access
Summary
Racine‑Kenosha Community Action Agency proposed using CDBG funds to expand nutrition programming in Kenosha — including farmers‑market vouchers, nutrition education and mobile market infrastructure — and asked for clearer guidance on budget details requested by the committee.
Jackie Hartley, filling in for Racine‑Kenosha Community Action Agency, presented a Nourishing Kenosha proposal focused on expanding access to fresh produce through WIC farmers‑market vouchers, senior voucher distribution, nutrition education and a mobile market (pop‑up) infrastructure.
Hartley said the requested funds would support program staffing, materials and equipment for mobile market sites and would aim to increase reach into underserved neighborhoods while supporting local growers. Committee members asked several clarifying questions about how participants would access vouchers, whether the program partners with local food pantries, how ‘program supplies’ would be used, and the program’s client referral pathways.
Hartley acknowledged gaps in the presentation materials and offered to have CEO Ron Tatum or program staff provide a clearer operational description and more detailed budget breakout to committee staff prior to the allocation meeting. The committee requested that supplementary materials explain the relationship between the Agency’s WIC activities, voucher distribution, the proposed mobile market and any direct food distribution components.
