A nip here and a tuck there in the final day of the fiscal year and the city will get to keep community services that had be scheduled to set down.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Library downtown will keep its Sunday hours thanks to a decision to restore $314,000 in funding, according to Mayor Vincent Gray.
The mayor also said on Friday that the Commodity Supplemental Food Program — which provides food, nutrition education and other related services to more than 6,000 people — will not end on Sept. 30, “despite public reports to the contrary.” The Greater Washington Urban League will continue to run the program.
To keep the food program alive, the D.C. Department of Health exercised a partial option to extend the contract with its services provider through the end of this calendar year. It will work with another provider to transition current clientele at the end of the year to ensure no break in service.
