Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Nina Rhee, Acting Director, Aging and Adult 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 the Chief of San Mateo County Health or the Chief's designee to execute amendments with current Older Americans Act program contractors 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 during or for the term of July 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024, in an amount not to exceed $2,100,000.
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BACKGROUND:
On April 24, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the launch of the Great Plates Delivered (GPD) program, a prepared meal delivery service. The GPD program helped seniors and other adults at high risk of COVID-19 stay home and healthy by delivering three nutritious meals daily to their homes. The GPD program, authorized and fully funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ended on July 9, 2021. As of June 6, 2021, San Mateo County had served 4,683 older adults with 2,600,000 meals through 84 local meal providers, at a total cost of $58,000,000 through the GPD program.
According to the Center on Budget Policy Priorities, located in Washington D.C., data from the US Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey indicated high rates of economic hardship and increased food insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Without a nutrition program to replace GPD when it ended on July 9, 2021, an estimated 1,200 San Mateo County older adults would have had unmet nutritional needs.
To address this population of approximately 1,200 older adults with unmet nutritional needs, Aging and Adult Services (AAS) and the Office of Sustaina...
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