D.C. budget-cutting, sort of

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, facing a $131 million revenue shortfall for fiscal 2009, told the Department of Health last fall to cut $2.9 million from its budget. As partial response to that mandate, agency officials decided to offload the Commodity Supplemental Food Program and pledged to save $541,529.

The total budget for the food program is nearly $1.4 million — about $766,000 from locally generated revenues and $631,000 from federal grants.