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Seems to be they are serving about 50 people a day on some days. Other days its higher. I think staff from self help for the elderly might be able to give us more accurate information. I was there actually this monday after the grand opening at west portal, the senior center, our colleagues went to lunch there and we saw during an hour 25 seniors already there having lunch. But the program is definitely growing. I went there and eat myself too, okay, and i was asking the highest number they have served it was 75 or something on one day. Yeah. So it seemed like to be very, very popular. Uhhuh. ...

And director hinton. They are, as you can see, the total amount modified is, the current is 25 million, a little over that, then the modification is 5,096, 484 and the total new contract is 30 million and change as you can see from the memo. And the funding sources, majority is local county funds, 95. 3 percent, then a small percentage, 1. 8 percent is from state funding and almost 3 percent is federal funds. That gives us the total of 5,096,000. In terms of the funding and where it came from and how it came about, last year the board of supervisors had a Food Security hearing in april. And th...

Moved and second. You are on. Good morning, commissioners and director hinton. They are, as you can see, the total amount modified is, the current is 25 million, a little over that, then the modification is 5,096, 484 and the total new contract is 30 million and change as you can see from the memo. And the funding sources, majority is local county funds, 95. 3 percent, then a small percentage, 1. 8 percent is from state funding and almost 3 percent is federal funds. That gives us the total of 5,096,000. In terms of the funding and where it came from and how it came about, last year the board o...

Uhhuh. So we are adding additional funds to be able to hopefully accommodate more of the seniors. Is that in the sunset area . Champs. The second site. The second site is not identified yet but, yes, we are targeting sunset because currently we only have one congregate meal site that falls into that supervisor district. Yeah, its one of the lowest resource in terms of what we fund. Does this amount of funds provide a chance to rotate the menu, or is it the same menu over . Do they have. There is money in there, part of the nutrition compliance is developing the menu and making changes at least...

So the bulk of the funding is for that with a little bit of one time only for startup costs for the new center. Are there any questions . Any questions . Commissioner katie loo. How many meals have they served here, do you know . More recently our data seems to be they are serving about 50 people a day on some days. Other days its higher. I think staff from self help for the elderly might be able to give us more accurate information. I was there actually this monday after the grand opening at west portal, the senior center, our colleagues went to lunch there and we saw during an hour 25 senior...