PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — Leadership with Meals on Wheels is sounding the alarm after another wave of Health and Human Services cuts, concerned their funding could be impacted.
This week Meals on Wheels learned that 40% of the Administration for Community Living staff had been cut. CEO Suzanne Washington said that department deals directly with the funding that Meals on Wheels uses to serve people across the Portland metro area. Without those workers, there are concerns Meals on Wheels will not be able to get the money it relies on.
“All the people who understand the program, serve the program, have the expertise to deal with the issues that we deal with every day and make sure the funding gets to the people they’re gone,” Washington said. “So that’s the worry. If all the people getting those dollars out and managing the program are gone, who’s going to do it now?”…