In the News ... "Council slashes funding to Meals on Wheels, food bank"

• The two programs that fared the worst

Kim Smith, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - The Odessa City Council awarded roughly $4.5 million in Community Development Block Grants, hotel-motel tax money and general fund money Tuesday night during a lengthy meeting where various causes pleaded their cases.

The city had received CDBG requests totaling nearly $1.3 million from such organizations as the West Texas Food Bank, Permian Basin Mission Center, Meals on Wheels, Hollingsworth Head Start, Family Promise and the Elderly and Disabled Lawn Mowing Program ...

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