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Project Share allows City of Tallahassee utility customers to pay it forward
Project Share lets Tallahasseans help pay for others utility bills
Project Share allows utility customers to donate money to go towards customers struggling to pay.
and last updated 2021-02-25 18:13:40-05
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â After almost a year of no disconnections for its customers, the City of Tallahassee Utilities will resume disconnections. The city says it now has about $9.4 million in past-due bills, split between more than 12,000 people and businesses. But for people like Hattie Wilson, there s still concern. It s been a big stress because there s times when I m trying to figure out how I m going to make it from one day to the other, she said.
The food distribution helped residents like Hunter get a prepared meal. And the program also provided an income to restaurant workers who had been laid off from their regular season jobs because of the pandemic.
Rachel McCandless, the Health and Nutrition Director for Feeding Northeast Florida, said the Project Share prepared meals program was a pandemic response effort that was only supposed to last for 10 weeks but was extended for nine months.
The Project Share program allowed Feeding Northeast Florida to hire restaurant workers, some of who were laid off due to the pandemic, as independent contractors and paid their salaries through private donations and through contributions by philanthropists.