Commission to discuss increased funding for Rocky Boy Meals on Wheels program

The Hill County Commission during its business meeting Thursday approved a contract between the Hill County Council on Aging and Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation’s Tribal Council to help fund a Meals on Wheels program that has been in increasing demand amid the pandemic.

Council on Aging Director Don Kenny said the contract is virtually identical to the one approved for fiscal year 2020-21 and helps provide meals to the elderly on the reservation.

He said the county, for the last few years, has sent $3,036 a month to the reservation to pay food expenses and that would be the same for th...