23-075 2R An ordinance authorizing the City Manager to accept a grant from Mid-America Regional Council in the amount of $89,417 for the City’s Senior Adult Nutrition Site Program for Fiscal Year 2023-2024, and execute the Community Center Services Agreement; making the necessary appropriations; authorizing future change orders for additional funding and/or time extensions; and, authorizing certain future appropriations.

Parks/Recreation/Tourism Department staff recommend approval of this Ordinance.

This grant enables the City's Parks/Recreation/ Tourism Department to continue offering its Nutrition Site Program through the Senior Adult Services Division; including participant transportation services, required assessments/reassessments for Home Delivered Meals, delivery of Frozen Home Delivered Meals, and evidence-based disease prevention/health promotion programs.

This grant through Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) helps make possible the City's Nutrition Site Program offered through the Parks/Recreation/Tourism Department's Senior Adult Services Division. The Program is offered to area seniors, 60 years and over and their spouses, as well as disabled individuals, 18 years and over. Lunches are offered at the Palmer Recreation Center, Monday through Friday. Home delivered meals are available to those individuals that are homebound and meet program guidelines.

In previous years, the City has applied for and received grant funding annually from MARC for operating expenses associated with salaries for personnel to operate the Nutrition Site. In March 2022, the Parks/Recreation/Tourism Department staff submitted a Request for Proposal response to MARC for The Palmer Center. Following review by the Board of Directors of MARC, the City was selected to provide Community Center Services for up to $33,000 annually in grant funding for up to three years for administering the program. This amount was included in the adopted current fiscal year budget.

The proposed Ordinance also includes appropriations of up to $56,417 for Senior Adult Services, designated as follows: up to $16,728 for transportation, up to $6,000 for assessments and re-assessments, up to $23,689 for Frozen Home Delivered Meal Delivery and up to $10,000 for evidenced-based programming.

Funds for operation of the City's Senior Adult Nutrition Site program will be deposited to 012-3275 and expensed from appropriate Parks/Recreation/Tourism Department salary and benefit accounts.

Funds for participant transportation will be deposited to the Parks & Recreation Grant Fund (015) and expensed from account 6050-5240-MARCS.

Funds for In Home/HDM assessments/reassessments and Frozen HDM delivery will be deposited to the Parks & Recreation Grant Fund (015) and expensed appropriately from 6050-5100-MARCS, 6050-5101-MARCS, and 6050-5309-MARCS.

Funds for evidence-based disease prevention/health promotion programs will be deposited to the Parks & Recreation Grant Fund (015) and expensed from 6050-5309-MARCS.