Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Lisa Mancini, Director, Aging and Adult Services
Subject: Authorization to Execute Agreements with Any Current Older Americans Act Program Contractors to Address the Ongoing Nutritional Needs of Older Adults in San Mateo County through the Second Course Home Delivered Meals Program
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Chief of San Mateo County Health or the Chief's designee to execute agreements with any current Older Americans Act program contractors to address the ongoing nutritional needs of older adults in San Mateo County through the Second Course Home Delivered Meals program during or for the term of July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,900,000.
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BACKGROUND:
After the end of the statewide Great Plates Delivered (GPD) program, the County sought to serve the unmet nutritional needs of an estimated 1,200 San Mateo County older adults through a two-year pilot program through Aging and Adult Services and the Office of Sustainability called Second Course to: 1) initiate a grocery delivery program in partnership with the Second Harvest Food Bank; and 2) expand the County's existing Home Delivered Meals program. The total cost of the post-GPD home-delivered meals portion of the pilot program is approximately $3,900,000 for the two fiscal years.
Of the 1,200 older adults, 500 need prepared home-delivered meals. These clients are functionally homebound and cannot access alternative nutritional networks.
On June 29, 2021, this Board approved a resolution authorizing the Chief of San Mateo County Health or the Chief's designee to execute agreements with five of the current Older Americans Act (OAA) contractors to meet the program needs of the Home Delivered Meals portion of the Second Course program (City of Daly City, Peni...
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