Tag: Vallejo, California

FAIRFIELD — Solano County Supervisor Monica Brown made a not-so-subtle push for Californians to vote for Democrats for Congress at a recent Board of Supervisors meeting. The topic was the potential loss of federal Meals on Wheels funding starting in 2019-20, and Supervisor Erin Hannigan’s urging for the board to send a letter to Congress to support the program and continue to fund it. The grant program is being eliminated entirely by the Trump administration. The budget is $1.2 million, the majority of which is public funds, including additional Community Development Block Grant funds from Fairfield and Vallejo, Hartmann said. There is also a waiting list of 103 residents. “There is a reason that you register to vote and vote,” Brown said. “Because if you look at the original proposed budget, all the Democrats in California voted against and all of the Republicans voted for, and that was the beginning of the cut for Meals on Wheels,” said Brown, who added that she made her comments as an editorial. “You know, for you to say all Republicans voted (for the Meals on Wheels cuts), that’s really, that’s outrageous,” Spering said. Spering said in September he was “insulted” by a resolution brought to the board by Brown to declare Solano a “safe haven.” “I want to be judged by my actions. Brown lost that fight, as none of her board colleagues were willing to even second her motion to adopt the resolution.