RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Novation Contract #72-075-5 with J-Sei, Inc., a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $38,316, to provide home-delivered meals to elderly residents in West Contra Costa County, for the period from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, which includes a three-month automatic extension through September 30, 2021, in an amount not to exceed $8,000.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is funded 100% by Title III-C 2 of the Older Americans Act of funds. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
This Contract meets the social needs of a small ethnic Japanese community that exists along the West Contra Costa County and Alameda County border, by providing ethnically appropriate home-delivered meals on 250 serving days, for up to 15 nutritionally at-risk, homebound senior citizens, to ensure they receive at least one third of their daily nutritional requirements.
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