{"id":4993,"date":"2025-06-04T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:47:52","slug":"official-notice-of-public-hearing-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/official-notice-of-public-hearing-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Notice of Public Hearing 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>District Three Governmental Cooperative will hold a public hearing on its draft Fiscal Year 2026 Plan and Budget for Aging Services at 10:00 a.m. on July 7, 2025, at 4453 Lee Highway, Marion, VA 24354.\u00a0 Written comments also will be accepted.\u00a0 Copies of the plan summary are available by contacting the agency at that address or by calling (276) 783-8157.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>District Three provides aging and public transit services both directly and through contracts with service providers.\u00a0 Anyone who wishes to be placed on the bidders\u2019 list for providing any of the following services should contact the agency in writing prior to July 7: Chore, Residential Repair, Information and Assistance, Senior Transportation, Assisted Transportation, Legal Assistance, Emergency Services,\u00a0 Long Term Care Coordination, Money Management, Public Information and Education, Volunteer Services, Congregate Nutrition, Home Delivered Meals, Nutrition Counseling, Disease Prevention\/Health Promotion, Support Groups, Homemaker, Care Coordination, Elder Abuse Prevention, Insurance Counseling, Socialization\/Recreation, and Respite.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>District Three Governmental Cooperative is soliciting sealed bids for the following goods and services for Fiscal Year 2026 (beginning October 1, 2025): Hot Senior Meals, Frozen Senior Meals, and Shelf-Stable Meals. For additional information or specifications, contact the address above.\u00a0 Sealed bids must be received no later than noon, August 15, 2025.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>District Three is seeking opportunities to contract with Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, including minority-owned and\/or women-owned businesses.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>District Three Governmental Cooperative, operating as District Three Senior Services and Mountain Lynx Public Transit, receives funding from the U S Administration on Community Living, the Federal Transit Administration, and other federal sources; the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Rail and Public Transportation, and other state sources; the six counties, two cities and three major towns in Virginia\u2019s third planning district, as well as contributions and other community sources.\u00a0 In compliance with appropriate state and federal statutes, the agency does not discriminate in admission to programs or activities, or in employment opportunities.\u00a0 If you feel you have been discriminated against, you have a right to file a complaint with the agency by calling (276) 783-8157. <\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District Three Governmental Cooperative will hold a public hearing on its draft Fiscal Year 2026 Plan and Budget for Aging Services at 10:00 a.m. on July 7, 2025, at 4453 Lee Highway, Marion, VA 24354.\u00a0 Written comments also will be accepted.\u00a0 Copies of the plan summary are available by contacting the agency at that address&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/district-three.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}