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CITY OF GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA
REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA ITEM
Report: Elderly Nutrition Program Subaward of Grant Funds from County of Los Angeles Aging and Disabilities Department for FY 2025-2026 baseline funding and Modernizing Older Californians Act (MOCA) funding allocation of $490,900.
1. Motion to accept $443,300 in Elderly Nutrition Program (ENP) baseline funding and $47,600 in MOCA funding from Los Angeles County Aging and Disabilities (AD) for FY 2025-2026; and authorize the City Manager or a designee to execute Subaward ENP252604 period July 2025 – June 2026 to accept and implement funding.
COUNCIL ACTION
Item Type: Consent Calendar
Approved for June 24, 2025 calendar
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Community Services & Parks (CSP) Department is requesting to accept a new four-year subaward from Los Angeles County (AD) for ENP baseline and MOCA grant funding. Year One funding for FY 2025-2026 totals $490,900 and will provide ENP Congregate Meals (C1), ENP Home Delivered Meals (C2), and Telephone Reassurance (TR) programs to older adults 60 years of age and older. $443,300 Baseline
$47,600 MOCA
Los Angeles County AD funding from Subaward ENP252604 in FY 2025-2026 will allow the ENP program to receive 48,972 congregate meals, 10,480 home delivered meals, provide 80 homebound seniors with a 3 day’s supply of emergency meals, and make 1,300 telephone reassurance calls to homebound seniors.
Los Angeles County AD funds were included as part of the FY 2025-2026 budget process.
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RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council accept and authorize the City Manager or a designee to execute Subaward ENP252604 period July 2025 – June 2026 to implement $443,300 in baseline funding from Los Angeles County AD for FY 2025-2026 and $47,600 from MOCA.
ANALYSIS
CSP has been providing meal service to older adults 60 years and older in the Greater Glendale Area since 1979 with grant funding administered from Los Angeles County AD through the federal Older Americans Act. The ENP provides an important opportunity for social contact and is the only meal many seniors receive in a day.
The ENP program is operated through the Senior Services Section which provides comprehensive, long-term services that include Congregate Meal (C1), Home Delivered Meals (C2), Emergency Meals, Telephone Reassurance and Supportive Services. The goal of these services is to assist the seniors in our community to maintain their independence and live in their own home.
The City’s ENP C1 program operates two (2) congregate meal sites serving lunch 7 days per week at the Adult Recreation Center and five (5) days per week at Sparr Heights Community Center. An average of 4,400 meals per month are served in the program to over 500 unduplicated seniors annually.
The ENP C2 program is for homebound older adults requiring food delivery assistance for physical and/or medical reasons and is substantiated by a doctor’s order before beginning program services. Program services include a weekly delivery of seven frozen meals that include bread, fruit, milk, and dessert. The Emergency Meals Program is part of the Home Delivered Meals and provides three days’ worth of shelf stable meals to client enrolled in the program per fiscal year. Telephone Reassurance Program is also a part of the Home Delivered Meals program which ensures seniors who are shut-in receive a weekly well-being call.
The City contracts with TRIO Community Meals, LLC to provide congregate and home delivered meals catering services for the ENP program. The contract period is from December 1, 2022 through November 30, 2026. The cost per meal rate is as follows; Congregate Meals $4.56 per meal
Home Delivered Meals $4.75 per meal
The City has a purchase order with Revolution Foods to provide Emergency Meals to Home Delivered Meals program clients for 3 (three) days’ worth of shelf stable meals at a unit rate of $6.85 per meal.
CSP has been awarded an ENP grant award from Los Angeles County AD for baseline funding in FY 2025-2026 through a noncompetitive process where the City will enter into a subaward agreement for a one (1) year term, commencing July 1, 2025, through June 4f3
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30, 2026, with three (3) additional options to renew annually for an anticipated total subaward term of four (4) years. Baseline funding for the program requires a 12% cash match. This Subaward is Year One of a four-year subaward term. In addition to baseline funding in FY 2025-2026, state funding from MOCA will also be made available from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026.
On June 12, 2025, Los Angeles County AD informed the City of baseline and MOCA grant funding totaling $490,900 to be used for C1, C2, and Telephone Reassurance Programs in FY 2025-2026 from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
Baseline funding is a reimbursable grant with a 12% cash match and MOCA funding does not require a cash match.
The LA County AD reimbursement rate for ENP funding for meal service delivery for FY 2025-2026 is as follows:
Service Type Funding Source Reimbursement Rate
Congregate Meals OAA Baseline/MOCA $8.08 per meal
Home Delivered Meals OAA Baseline/MOCA $8.96 per meal
Telephone Reassurance Calls OAA Baseline $1.00 (per call) Baseline and MOCA funding will enable the City to provide 48,972 congregate meals, 10,480 home delivered meals, 3 days’ supply of emergency meals to C2 clients, and make 1,300 telephone reassurance calls to homebound seniors through June 30, 2026.
STAKEHOLDERS/OUTREACH
The Elderly Nutrition Program is administered by the Senior Services Section at the Adult Recreation Center, with an additional meal site located at the Sparr Heights Community Center. Program services are promoted quarterly through the Community Services & Parks (CSP) Leisure Guide, the CSP newsletter, CSP social media channels, and the City’s website. Outreach is also conducted in collaboration with local community agencies to increase public awareness of available services. The Senior Services Committee convenes quarterly at the Adult Recreation Center, with meeting notices and agendas posted and distributed to encourage public participation.
FISCAL IMPACT
The subaward from Los Angeles County (AD) for ENP baseline and MOCA grant funding totals $490,900, which was included as part of the FY 2025-2026 budget process.
The appropriation is outlined below:
FY 2025-26 Proposed Appropriation
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Amount Account String Funding Source
$363,900 Various-2700-CSP-0020-P0000
CSP01170AG
Nutritional Meals Grant Fund
$78,100 Various-2700-CSP-0020-P0000
CSP01172AG
Nutritional Meals Grant Fund
$1,300 Various-2700-CSP-0020-P0000
CSP01173AG
Nutritional Meals Grant Fund
$31,800 Various-2700-CSP-0020-P0000
CSP01350AG
Nutritional Meals Grant Fund
$15,800 Various-2700-CSP-0020-P0000
CSP01377AG
Nutritional Meals Grant Fund
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (CEQA/NEPA)
The action being considered does not constitute a “project” within the meaning of CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(4) as it creates a government funding mechanism or constitutes other government fiscal activities which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment; thus, it is not subject to CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15060(c)(3).
CAMPAIGN DISCLOSURE
This item is exempt from campaign disclosure requirements.
ALTERNATIVES TO STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Alternative 1: Do not approve acceptance of $443,300 in baseline and $47,600 in MOCA funding from Los Angeles County AD for FY 2025-2026 ENP; which will result in meal service stoppage.
Alternative 2: The City Council may consider any alternative not proposed by staff.
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
Submitted by:
Onnig Bulanikian, Director of Community Services & Parks Prepared by:
Aylin Isayan, Community Services Supervisor
Maggie Kavarian, Community Services Manager
Tereza Aleksanian, Assistant Director of Community Services & Parks 4f5
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Approved by:
Roubik R. Golanian, P.E., City Manager
EXHIBITS/ATTACHMENTS
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