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From: Lively, BarbaraLi
Sent: Wednesday,June 07, 2017 1:57 PM 7017 " N � i
To: CountyCouncil
Subject: Message from constituent
Attention County Council :
In responce to the cancellation of the FOOD BASKET Senior Fresh Food Program,A request for COH financial support for
the 1,500 current low income,qualified, Big Island seniors who depend on this program and have received "FRESH
FOOD"from local farmers for the past 10 Years,WE ASK THE FOLLLOWING;
The support of contingency funds from each district on the Big Island.The Food Basket knows exactly how many of
these seniors are in your district.
Directly asking your State of Hawaii Representatives and Senators to help this program stay on it's feet and NOT BE
REDUCED TO a$50 Voucher issued by HCEOC(who will get the Fed's$100,000)to be used at some Farmer's Market at a
retail cost rather than a wholesale amount of produce from local farmers, as usual.
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul" is not a program.The State of Hawaii, Dept of Labour, Community Services has destroyed
this program by issuing a "NEW" RFP that effectively ended the old program. Food Basket could not AFFORD to apply!
Only the Federal money is being applied while the State and County are sitting on their hands.
The additional$123,000, divided by nine is$13,722.22 each of contingency funds to save this program. But Really the
state should cover half of this money just to be fair. Please call your State counter partners and suggest their
participation.
The ELDERS SHOULD NOT GO HUNGRY!
Anyone who understands how the three layers of Government can partner together to help us,the citizens, please
contact me. I will be discussing this on Radio at the end of this month.
Toby S. Hazel
Puna, Hawaii
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