SAN JOSE — A call to keep San Jose’s senior nutrition program up and running brought out a crowd to City Hall.  The massive deficit is targeting several community centers for closure which could end nutrition programs for the elderly.

Councilman Sam Liccardo says he doesn’t want that to happen. He, along with councilmembers Judy Chirco and Madison Nguyen are proposing to keep the centers open for another year in order to find other non-profits that will be able to take over those services. Liccardo want to tap into the half-million dollar essential services fund along with some other funding maneuvers that would keep the community centers open.

Jane Kiser was at the meeting inside the City Hall Rotunda. She says the proposed closing of two senior nutrition sites due to the budget crisis would turn back the clock to the time when she was a young, single mother. She said that she was eating out of trash cans and met other seniors who were doing the same thing. This was before the senior program was put into place.

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