{"id":438097,"date":"2026-09-16T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438097\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:26:08","slug":"houston-approves-6-7-million-more-for-senior-programs-heights-river-oaks-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438097\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston approves $6.7 million more for senior programs | Heights – River Oaks – Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston officials approved an additional $6.7 million in funding for senior programs that include nutrition and transportation services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What happened<\/p>\n

At the Sept. 16 meeting<\/a>, Houston City Council members unanimously approved a contract extension that provides nutrition and transportation services for senior programs, such as Meals on Wheels, which delivers meals to people\u2019s homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The contract also increases funding by $6.7 million through partnerships with other municipalities and organizations, such as BakerRipley and the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those in favor<\/p>\n

Council member Joe Panzarella supported the one-year extension, which is set to expire in September 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program helps those in need get transportation to locations for congregate meals, as well as home-delivered meals,\u201d he said. \u201cThis serves over 10,000 meals a day, assisting over 7,200 homebound seniors and transporting over 450 individuals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Partnerships through the program also include Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, the city of South Houston, Jacinto City, the Salvation Army and the city of La Porte.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to give a shout-out to the [Houston] Health Department for being an amazing steward of this program and all the partners at the city who help make sure no one goes hungry,\u201d Panzarella added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Council member Julian Ramirez said that this decision will also pick up programs that were previously handled by the Young Women’s Christian Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of this is for Meals on Wheels<\/a> programs, which are hugely important to a lot of homebound folks and a lot of folks who don’t get much contact or communication with others,\u201d Ramirez said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

One more thing<\/p>\n

The contract began in October 2021 and has been extended every year since then. It is capped at a total of $55.4 million, per the agenda item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston officials approved an additional $6.7 million in funding for senior programs that include nutrition and transportation services.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22563,151810,56,4626,58,57,85644,30023,4082,151809],"class_list":["post-438097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bakerripley","tag-evelyn-rubenstein-jewish-community-center","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joe-panzarella","tag-julian-ramirez","tag-meals-on-wheels","tag-senior-adult-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}