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(Continued from Page 1) Washington Post Office. Nature’s Foods will close at the end of April and has withdrawn its bid, the sheriff told the board. That leaves the Hampton Inn’s catering offer of $3 per person per meal (phis 30 cents for stryofoam containers) with a guarantee of 15 meals per week, Woodward said.
“If that’s the only way we can go, looks like we’ll have to go that way,” said Supervisor Chairman J.R. Latham.
Sheriff Woodward recommended a short term catering contract just in case it becomes possible to work out a less expensive way of feeding the county’s prisoners.
Agreeing that the jail population can be expected to require at least the minimum of 15 meals per week guaranteed, particularly if that minimum can be based on a monthly average, the board voted unanimously to authorize Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke to negotiate a catering contact with the owner of the Hamp
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