{"id":282119,"date":"2026-05-23T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:41:14","slug":"budget-conference-house-unwilling-to-fund-meal-delivery-for-struggling-northeast-florida-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282119\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget conference: House unwilling to fund meal delivery for struggling Northeast Florida seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doubts remain as to whether a program delivering meals to older adults in Northeast Florida will be funded this year on the state level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Senate has approved $400,000 for the request for funding for <a href=\"https:\/\/myeldersource.org\/donate-now\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ElderSource<\/a> from Sen.\u00a0Clay Yarborough, but Rep.\u00a0Dean Black\u2019s ask in the House has yet to get traction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elder Source operates in a sprawling, growing area of the state, including Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, St. Johns, and Volusia. It provides especially needed services for homebound and financially-constrained seniors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But currently, more older Floridians need help than there is funding to support, meaning that these residents are going hungry. The waiting list continues to grow, and the program hasn\u2019t been funded since FY 23-24 on the state level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While $40,000 of the appropriation would go to administrative costs, $360,000 would go to the support of what Yarborough\u2019s request calls \u201cfrail, older adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keithgross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-779410 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/728x90-2-scaled-e1770825250237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the meals, the service would also allow for socialization and wellness checks for the 200-400 who could be served if the funding came through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doubts remain as to whether a program delivering meals to older adults in Northeast Florida will be funded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5888,6477,120077,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-282119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-clay-yarborough","tag-dean-black","tag-eldersource","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}