Hays County Food Bank has outgrown its current facility, said HCFB Executive Director Eleanor Owen.
“It’s difficult to serve all of Hays County, and [running] a facility of this size takes a lot of manual labor and a lot of turnaround,” Owen told the Daily Record. “We’re not able to capitalize on maybe a larger donation or lower priced foods and things that we might be able to get from different vendors because we don’t have a loading dock. We’re just not set up to serve the size that our community is.”
Owen, along with Board President Jamie Lee Chase and board member Mae Parrish, represented HCFB’s interest in a $1.2 million sub-recipient grant agreement to fund a feasibility study and the construction of a new facility Tuesday’s Hays County Commissioners Court meeting.
