Napa County supervisors on Monday approved $1 million to help people struggling with food insecurity in the event that the state’s CalFresh benefits are delayed.
The Board of Supervisors voted to declare a local state of emergency and to take the funds from the county’s Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, a pool of money it’s used for health programs in the past.
The money will go to provide emergency grocery store gift cards for people who will lose their CalFresh benefits on Saturday because of funding problems related to the federal government’s ongoing shutdown…