Meals on Wheels Seeking More From Pierre To Support Program

Meals on Wheels Seeking More From Pierre To Support Program

PIERRE, (KCCR) — Non-profits continue to make pitches and pleas for assistance as local governments get ready to put their budgets together for the next fiscal year. The Community and Youth Involved Center in Fort Pierre is the base for the local Meals on Wheels program….

Executive Director Dusti Deal told the Pierre City Commission Tuesday night they have to purchase all of their food and are responsible for paying back 10-percent of a state grant each year, which this year is over 14-thousand dollars.…

Deal pleaded with the Commission to consider increasing Pierre’s contribution to a dollar per meal…

The City of Pierre is holding it’s first public budget hearing at the River Cities Transit Community Room Thursday.