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York Township supervisor asks Lombard to help expand food pantry support during SNAP disruption
Summary
York Township Supervisor Tim Murray told the Lombard board that federal SNAP disruptions and low food-bank inventories are increasing demand on local pantries; he asked for monetary donations, volunteers and intergovernmental coordination, and provided contact/donation guidance (yorktwsp.com).
Tim Murray, the newly elected York Township supervisor, asked the Village of Lombard’s Board of Trustees on Nov. 6 to support increased local food assistance after a federal SNAP disruption and reports of low inventories at DuPage County food pantries.
Murray said the township’s supervisor’s office is set up to provide food-distribution logistics — trucks, forklifts and staff — and detailed the conversion of SNAP-supported meals into pantry demand, telling the board that SNAP typically supplies a much larger volume of meals than a local pantry can by itself. “SNAP takes care of 9 meals to food pantry taking care of 1 meal,” Murray said, summarizing the scale challenge.
He said York Township’s pantry serves roughly a half-million-dollar annual program (funding comes from donations and township support) and that the township contributes manpower and…
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