gretchen: how did you do that? a lot of people said look at these inspiring stories across the country where people and communities are getting involved to make sure this doesn t happen. what did you do? we have an amazing community in tallahasee. people here always seem to deliver when there s a need. we have volunteers that have been with us since elder care started in 1972. we re still delivering meals. and these volunteers stepped up, provided checks on a daily basis. told us that if their routes were cut that they would personally fund them themselves. if you ve never delivered a meal, i guess you don t know the impact on these people who are homebound, income, not to theird fault or to their detriment, though, they don t have money to support themselves. so this daily meal is both a health check and a socialization for a lot of these people who can t get
seniors are delivered meals on time. it is another example of how americans are doing what the government apparently cannot. joining me from tallahasee, florida is the president and c.e.o. good morning to you, sir. i know this issue has been near and dear to your heart, this issue of making sure seniors do not go hungry. tell me about how the sequester hit your program in florida. we anticipated at the end of the year that we were going to have a problem, so in january we prepared by taking a line of credit so that we had money in the bank when it happened. we had heard we were going to take a 5% hit. it actually turned out to be 6.6%, which translated into over 10,000 meals and 52 clients that we would have to stop serving. that s really not in our charter. so we prepared ourselves for that situation.
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