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    QUESTION
            Do older adult centers in NYC offer grab and go meals, and how many provide this option?
1:26:00
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Commissioner Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez confirms that older adult centers in NYC can offer grab and go meals if included in their contracts.
- Older adult centers that choose to include grab and go options in their contracts are allowed to provide them.
- Grab and go meals are not considered supplemental but are the primary meal offered to older adults.
- Council Member Crystal Hudson inquires about the number or percentage of centers offering grab and go meals.
- Commissioner Cortes-Vasquez needs to check for precise figures but assures the information is obtainable.
                                
                                    Crystal Hudson
                                
                            
                            
                                            
                                            1:26:00
                                        
                                        Does NYC Agent allow older adult centers to provide grab and gomails?
                                    
                                
                                    Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
                                
                            
                            
                                            
                                            1:26:06
                                        
                                        For those older dog clubs who chose to put grab and go as part of their contract, absolutely.
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:13
                                        
                                        They can do grab and go.
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:15
                                        
                                        Grab and go is is is not a supplemental meal.
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:17
                                        
                                        It is the meal that an older adult would do.
                                    
                                
                                    Crystal Hudson
                                
                            
                            
                                            
                                            1:26:20
                                        
                                        Do you know how many or what percentage of centers I do?
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:23
                                        
                                        Are providing grab and go
                                    
                                
                                    Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
                                
                            
                            
                                            
                                            1:26:25
                                        
                                        mails.
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:25
                                        
                                        Yeah.
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:25
                                        
                                        I I can get you there.
                                    
                                            
                                            1:26:30
                                        
                                        I'll look for it, but I'll get it I know I have.
                                    
                                
                                    Crystal Hudson
                                
                            
                            
                                            
                                            1:26:32
                                        
                                        Okay.
                                    