| Item Title: | Community Services Department/Nutrition Division/TDA Texans Feeding Texans Grant Application | | Submitted By: | Irene G. Valenzuela, Executive Director, Community Services Department (915) 775-2708 | | Subject: | Approve and authorize the Community Services Department, Senior Nutrition Program, to apply for the Texas Department of Agriculture Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meal Grant in the amount of $103,000, from February 1, 2021, to January 31, 2022. County match in the amount of $27,071.25 is required and will be provided with existing employee salaries. Further, approve and authorize the County Judge to sign accompanying grant application documents. (Contract No. 2020-0933) | | Background: | The County Nutrition Program provides home delivered meals to seniors 60 years of age or older or persons with disabilities. Nutrition Program staff apply for various funding sources to support this program. The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) makes competitive grant funding available for home delivered meals. The County applies annually for this fund to help maintain level services to supplement other funding sources.
TDA determines the grant award for the new fiscal year based on the total number of unfunded meals by the other funders of the home delivered meal program. Each year, the final award differs slightly from the funding request. | | Fiscal Impact: | Requested/Anticipated amount $103,000.
Grant match in the amount of $27,071.25 will be provided with existing County salaries.
The Nutrition Program's county-funded operations budget is committed as in-kind services to this program. The grant award for FY2020 was $102,497.77 and FY 2019 was $99,824.13.
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| | Recommendation: | Approve and authorize the Community Services Department, Senior Nutrition Program, to apply for the Texas Department of Agriculture Texans Feeding Texans: Home-Delivered Meal Grant in the amount of $103,000, from February 1, 2021, to January 31, 2022. County match in the amount of $27,071.25 is required and will be provided with existing employee salaries. Further, approve and authorize the County Judge to sign accompanying grant application documents. (Contract No. 2020-0933) | | Prior Action: | October 21, 2019, Item# 26, 2019-0774
October 15, 2018, Item# 20, 2018-0713
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