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Hours away of getting in the metro area. We have a huge area, under a winter storm warning. Most of maryland all of West Virginia 4 00 until noon, winter storm warning in effect. It could unload eight inches or somewhere in maryland Calvert County, and southern Prince William, over to culpepper, north around the metro area. Fourinch to eightinch amounts will be common by the time it wraps up tomorrow morning. Next weather and traffic on the 1s, new timing coming in now. Ill show you whats the arrival time. Thats at 6 11. Thank you, tom. Crews at Dulles Airport are working hard to make sure you...

Preparation situation is, are they getting it through a caterer because not all the centers have their own kitchen. Like project open hand has their own central kitchen and when they have a much higher volume of meals those costs generally are lower too so the size of the operation, all those things take into consideration. And, you know, we do have a cap that we kind of look at, at what point will we, you know, not sort of cap, basically. So when you look at the, even with the costs that we have recommended it still doesnt cover 100 percent of all the operates costs for the meal provider. All...

Seniors cant donate. So when the projection is lower than projected that means they have to fill in with Additional Fund raising. Of course costs have gone up and with the the city has given all the providers some costs of doing business, a small percentage of 1. 5 percent, even that doesnt cover all the increases. Food costs has gone up quite a bit in the past year. So it is challenging but, you know, they are doing, they are very committed. Were really fortunate to have committed Service Providers and they are able to provide a service because they also use volunteers. A lot of the volunteer...

Pay. And you are correct, i mean, theres a lot of factors that we take into consideration in negotiating the rate based on, you know, the type of meal that will be provided, the organization structure, what type of meal, what the meal preparation situation is, are they getting it through a caterer because not all the centers have their own kitchen. Like project open hand has their own central kitchen and when they have a much higher volume of meals those costs generally are lower too so the size of the operation, all those things take into consideration. And, you know, we do have a cap that we...

Ann quinton with meals on wheels. We were able to hire a new rd and she actually speaks chinese as well shes bilingual, then we hired another rd that speaks french and a tiny bit of spanish so well see what happens with that. On staff we certainly have people that are speaking spanish and chinese and russian as well and our social work staff and drivers. So you do counseling, do you have materials in different languages that you give to the clients also . We do translate that into the languages that i mentioned. Thank you. You are welcome. Any other questions . Hearing none, i will call for th...