To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: # 40-607 Trio Community Meals, LLC
Recommendation: Recommendation of the County Administrator
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Trio Community Meals, LLC in an amount not to exceed $2,756,352 to provide Older Americans Act Title III-C Senior Nutrition Program meal services to older adults for the period July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% County ($425,000 Measure X, $2,331,352 County Nutrition Fund); all of which is budgeted in FY 26/27.
BACKGROUND:
Trio Community Meals, LLC produces meals that are provided to older adults who are participants in the Employment and Human Services Aging & Adult Services home-delivered and congregate meals programs.
On September 9, 2025, the Board of Supervisors approved Item C.43 authorizing a contract with Trio Community Meals, LLC in an amount not to exceed $4,990,821 for the Older Americans Act Title IIIC Senior Nutrition Program for the period of July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.
This action seeks to execute a new contract in the amount of $2,756,352 in local and County funds to continue providing meals under the Title III-C Senior Nutrition Program.
This vendor was selected per procurement requirements outlined in Administrative Bulletin 600.3.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Should the proposed action not be approved by the Board of Supervisors, this Contractor will not be able to provide much needed senior nutrition services for older adults in Contra Costa County.
CHILDREN’S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports one of Contra Costa County’s community outcomes of the Children’s Report Card: (4) “Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing.”