The Comanche County Nutrition Project is maintaining all of its seven sites despite a 25 percent budget cut, although it’s had to trim some service and cut back on personnel expenses.
Julie Justice, Comanche County project director, said there is no hint of the budget being restored in the near future.
“What we’ve been told, it may get worse,” Justice said; there has been no word on how much worse or when it might happen.
She said the decision to cut the project’s budget stemmed from the state’s revenue shortfall and was made by the head of Oklahoma Department of Human Services and approved by Gov. Brad Henry.