RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #22-137-60 with Meals on Wheels Diablo Region, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,122,925 to provide home-delivered meals for the Senior Nutrition Program, for the period from October 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, which includes a three-month automatic extension through September 30, 2022, in an amount not to exceed $280,732.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this contract will result in budgeted expenditures of up to $1,122,925 for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 and will be funded 100% by Title III C-2 of the Older Americans Act of funds.
BACKGROUND:
This contract meets the social needs of the County’s population by providing approximately 209,170 home-delivered meals on 250 serving days, to an average of 1,465 nutritionally at-risk, home-bound senior citizens and County residents, to ensure they receive at least one third of their daily nutritional requirements. This contractor has been providing services to Contra Costa County seniors since June 1980.
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