Over the course of the last week and a half, Oklahoma funneled $1.5 million to regional food banks for direct delivery of meal boxes to Oklahomans. The boxes contain a week’s worth of breakfast, lunch and dinner, according to officials at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
The money that helped pay for them — and the flow of which ended with the federal shutdown — came from an emergency appropriation by the Oklahoma State Contingency Board earlier this month.
Of the total, about $1 million went to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and about $500,000 to the Eastern Food Bank of Oklahoma, according to a letter from Gov. Stitt to the Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services agency, which manages state accounts…