Lucas County commissioners agree Connecting Kids to Meals and the Islamic Food Bank of Toledo can better help people with an infusion of funds from the county.

They just couldn’t decide between $100,000 or $1 million.

Lucas County Commissioner Lisa Sobecki proposed giving $100,000 to help those nonprofits provide emergency food services. Commissioner Anita Lopez wanted the figure to be $1 million.

Ms. Lopez said she refers to the county’s reserve fund as a “rainy day fund.”

“It’s raining right now in Lucas County,” she said about uncertainty in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. “When we are scrambling to try to find where people are going to go to food banks and how they’re going to get there — this is not something that I take lightly, spending taxpayer doll

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