There’s a lot of action in the morning at the Bay Ridge Center, where staff and volunteers are cooking and packing up over 500 meals to be delivered to homebound seniors in the neighborhood.

“They get a hot meal from us every day. Two days a week we double so they have a meal for Saturday and Sunday,” Todd Fliedner, executive director at the center, said.

Bay Ridge Center is among 14 community-based partners of the city’s Department for the Aging, which will benefit from over $3 million in City Council funding.

The funding will go toward repair and replacement of the specialized vans with separate compartments to keep food hot and cold.

“If someone is waiting every day and relying on that meals, it’s imperative that they get there. And that’s why keeping this program, funded and strong is so important,” Council Member Justin Brannan, who is chairman of the Council Finance Committee, said.

Bay Ridge Center will get two new vans — making good news for those who make the deliveries.

Car trouble is one thing, but it’s a different story when someone is waiting for what could be their only hot meal of the day.

“When you are in the middle of making deliveries and the truck breaks down, it could take hours,” JoAnn Jarush, who delivers meals, said.

“We like to keep them for a couple of years but with a lot of wear and tear on the streets, and then obviously the more vehicles we have the more people we can serve in the community,” Candice Sessoms, director of operations at the center, said.

It’s important for an organization that has been doing just that from a church basement for 46 years.

“We go there, we talk to them, we say hi, and we deliver meals to these people, and it’s a great thing,” Kim Laraichi, director of Home Delivered Meals at the center, said.