Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Colleen Chawla, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Lee Pullen, Director, Aging and Disability Services
Subject: Continuation of the Second Course Home Delivered Meals Program to Address Food Insecurity for Older Adults in San Mateo County
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing amendments to the agreements with Peninsula Volunteers, Inc. in the amount of $1,804,005; Senior Coastsiders in the amount of $402,615; Self Help for the Elderly in the amount of $573,975; and Meals on Wheels of San Francisco, Inc. in the amount of $782,640 to continue the Second Course home delivered meals program to address the ongoing nutritional needs of older adults and adults with disabilities in San Mateo County, extending the term by three months for a new term of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2025, for a new total amount not to exceed $3,563,235.
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BACKGROUND:
The Great Plates Delivered (GPD) program, which was authorized and fully funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ended on July 9, 2021.
To address this population of approximately 1,200 older adults with unmet nutritional needs, Aging and Disability Services (ADS) and the Office of Sustainability (OOS) started a new program, Second Course, on July 1, 2021, as a two-year pilot. The two-part program: 1) initiated a grocery delivery program in partnership with the Second Harvest Food Bank to serve food-insecure clients; and 2) expanded the County's existing home delivered meal program to serve clients who needed meals delivered to them. (OOS handled the grocery delivery program through a separate contract.) The post-GPD home delivered meal services portion of Second Course received a total amount of $3,900,000 for FY 2021-22 and FY 2022-23. The home delivered meal providers for Second Course were Peninsula Volunteers Inc., Self Help for the Elderly, Senior Coastside...
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