BUTTE — Butte-Silver Bow will start hosting emergency food drives at the Butte Civic Center in response to reductions in the federal SNAP program.

One local educator said it was students’ tears that assured him this was the right thing to do.

"She had a student in her office Monday that had a meltdown, crying, because he was really concerned about where his family’s next meal and meals after that would be coming from,” Butte Superintendent Jim O’Neill said.

Watch the full story: Butte Declares Food Emergency: $182K Allocated for Hungry Families

Butte Chief Executive J.P. Gallagher made an emergency proclamation on Nov. 5 to make sure local food banks would have food so local families in need would get a meal.

The city-county levied two mills totaling about $182,000 in emergency fun

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