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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10081996 - P2 T 0: BOARD OFsUlIERVISORS Con PZ tra FROM: Costa William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director DATE: County i�, jj SUBJECT: September 6 , 1996 CONTRIBUTION TO HOME DELIVERED MEALS PROGRAM SPECIFIC REOUEST(S)OR RECOMMENOATION(S)& BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION I. RECOMMENDATION Accept a donation of $40,000 from Senior Home Delivered Meals of Contra Costa Inc. for the County Home Delivered Meals Program located in the Department of Health Services - Public Health Division. These funds were raised specifically to assist the County Home Delivered Meals Program in purchasing meals and meal delivery equipment to maintain or expand meal delivery services to the County's homebound elderly population. II. FINANCIAL IMPACT: This $40,000 contribution allows the County Home Delivered Mdals Program to deliver approximately 26,600 additional meals to the residences of the county's homebound elderly this fiscal year, approximately 100 additional meals each day. III. BACKGROUND: Including this contribution, Senior Home Delivered Meals of Contra Costa, Inc. has contributed $132,000 to the County Home Delivered Meals Program since 1991. This non-profit charitable organization was formed in 1990 by a coalition of public and private non-profit agencies and advisory councils to raise charitable contribution for the purchase of additional meals and meal delivery equipment to serve our county's homebound elders through the County Home Delivered Meals Program. Participating organizations are: the County Health Services Department's Senior Nutrition Program; the County Social Services Department's Office on Aging; the County Advisory Council on Aging; the Senior Nutrition Program Advisory Council; West County Meals on Wheels Inc.; Family and Community Services Inc.; and the United Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations, Inc. The County Home Delivered Meals Program is the largest "Meals on Wheels" type program in Contra Costa County, delivering over 600 hot nutritious daily meals to the residences of homebound elderly and AIDS patients. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: -YES SIGNATURE: -RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR -RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): ACTION OF BOARD ON or-t-oher 8 , 1996 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN, .Contact Person: Wendel Brunner, M.D. CC: ATTESTED.. -October 8 , 1996 Health Services Administration PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Public Health Administration SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Senior Nutrition Procrrarri BY %1382 (10188) A110di J DEPUTY