Lane County government aims to help homeless and local food businesses

The arrangement would allow for food carts, trucks and restaurants to enter business with the Lane County government in exchange for food to two new shelters in the area.

Day with a budget of 5 dollars per meal.

While there are still details to iron out...navarro and wagenheim are ready and willing to make it work.

Chelsy navarro: if there's enough organization, the five dollars is doable because as the owner i can come in and eat a lot of that labor myself as long as i'm prepared for it.

Dave wagenheim: i can make it work to serve food at five dollars especially if it's a great cause, i can take a little hit there.

But if i know there's gonna be 300 to feed, that's gonna be different if there's 300 people to feed.

Ironing out those details may help food vendors be able to prep food and order ingredients easier.

And by doing business with the lane county government, food carts and restaurants are also paying it forward.

Chelsy: more than ever we need to stick together, help the neighbor out.

Us little guys we don't necessarily have the unemployment to fall back on.

This is our bread and butter to feed our families.

Personally i have a little boy that i do this for.

Dave: this is like a situation where now we're communicating at 6 feet distance and a lot online and despite that i hope we can find ways to help each other out and stay a tight knit community.

Andrew: the hope is that in the coming days, the details from lane county will come out so food carts can not only help those in need, they can stay afloat themselves as well.

Reporting in springfield, andrew haubner,