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Community leaders urge Solano supervisors to fund emergency food aid as CalFresh benefits are interrupted
Summary
Speakers at public comment urged the board to create county-level emergency funding and a coordinated response after a partial interruption of federal SNAP/CalFresh benefits. Speakers cited local counts of affected residents, economic impacts and examples of other counties and the state stepping in with support.
Multiple speakers asked Solano County to go beyond public information and establish coordinated emergency food assistance after a partial federal interruption of SNAP (CalFresh) benefits was announced.
Dr. Tanya Lettaju, a Vallejo council member and trustee on the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District board, told the board that "more than 50,000 residents in Solano County depend on these benefits," and that benefit interruptions…
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