The Food Security task force. Thank you. Thank you, maria. Any questions . Okay. I just have a question. Ms. Leclair, thank you so much for your service. I wanted to ask you a question that might be separate from this particular issue, but you work with wic and i was wondering, was any information communicated to you about the ten cent bag fee and that if someone receives wic, that they dont have the bag fee is waived . No, they havent. Okay. I dont know anything about that. But i can find out. Well, i just was told that the bag fee is supposed to be waived for those who receive who receive wic programs. And i wanted to make sure that information was getting to wic and explain that outreach to the folks there, but i just wanted to ask and im happy to follow up with you about the issue but i wanted to know if you knew about it. No, i dont know about that, no. Thank you. Thank you. Paula jones. Good afternoon, members of the rules committee and chairman yee, my name is paula jones, i wor
Im mapper raoe ya leclair, ive been in this position for 19 and a half years and i also supervise on the wic program director, wic is the women, infant and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program for lowincome women, infants and children up to the age of 5. I have been a wic director for different agencies, i was in san mateo and i also worked in the Central Valley at a federally qualified Health Center for 35 years now, and my passion has always been nutrition and how to get food to those in need. Here in San Francisco, we have an outstanding program, we serve breastfeeding women, we have a peer counselor project by feeding promotion project that we are very, very proud. We are also committed to making or pushing or encouraging i guess i should say the birthing hospitals here in the city to become babyfriendly. So far, out of the only one that is babyfriendly is San Francisco general hospital, so were pushing the other ones along. I have a passion for working here in the city for lowi
Thousand cases representing over 40 thousand San Francisco residents served by this program. Upwards of 7 Million Dollars in cal fresh benefits are issued each month in San Francisco, mostly trance transacted by large retailers, now a third of our monthly applications come in online, during my tenure with cal fresh, we established a Restaurant Meal Program where lowincome, homeless or disabled individuals can eat hot meals, now 7 other california counties operate such a program. Yet theres still significant work to do with cal fresh, notably the horizontal integration with medical for the Affordable Care act implementation allowing one application for both programs, and further expansion of the program is also required to serve very lowincome San Francisco residents who are eligible but not currently participating. The Food Security task force is an environment conducive to increasing collaboration and innovation in delivering cal fresh in San Francisco so i appreciate your considerati
Either at a community center, at a church or some place like that. We also have over 19 thousand Housing Units without cooking facilities, without kitchens in San Francisco, this is a big problem for Food Security, and they looked at the food needs of residents in San Francisco living at 185 of poverty or less, so the qualifications for a reduced price lunch and belore or wic envelope, and they looked at all the resources that are out there from cal fresh, from wic, from school meals, all of these and from Community Needs programs and they found there is still with all of those resources, theres still 145 thousand meals missing a day for that population, so this is why we come together as a group because we know this and because we are working closely at city agencies with each other and with Community Based organizations, so i love this group, i grew up on a farm so im from an agricultural background and worked on food system issues here in San Francisco if many years and i would be h