County Restores Meals On Wheels $$$

Item: Senior meals get a deal: Packed room demands changes to county budget /Alecia Warren, Press

More Info: After listening for hours at a public hearing where folks vehemently and sometimes tearfully pleaded to have cuts restored and raises increased, the Kootenai County commissioners voted to tweak one item in their proposed $74,127,159 budget for the next fiscal year. The commissioners agreed to restore the $13,000 they had been prepared to cut from the Lake City Center, which uses the dollars for its Meals on Wheels programs. Those dollars will be taken out of the county contingency fund.

Question: Is this a signal that the Kootenai County commissioners are listening to their public — and not just the Far Right wing of the local Republican Party?