Superior Council Weighs Funding for Emergency Food

Officials vote to provide $1 million per week to Oklahoma food banks until SNAP is funded

From left to right, Gov. Kevin Stitt, Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, and House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, discuss using an emergency fund to supplement Oklahoma food banks during the federal government shutdown at a meeting of the Contingency Review Board on Nov. 3, 2025. (Photo by Emma Murphy/Oklahoma Voice)OKLAHOMA CITY — State officials voted Monday to send Oklahoma food banks $1 million a week if federal food assista…

Superior council weighs funding for emergency food

SUPERIOR — The City Council will consider using economic development funds to address food insecurity. Mayor Jim Paine is proposing to use $200,000 from the city’s economic development fund to provide grants to local organizations that provide food assistance to people whose budgets are strained by the interruption in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — called FoodShare in Wisconsin. The economic development fund is typically used to…