City and i am grateful to speak to you briefly. I am speaking to you as a doctor and we were working with residents around issues they identified and the number two issue number one was crime. Number two was access to Healthy Foods. They couldnt buy Healthy Foods in the local stores. They were very upset about this. We were able to do little things. We brought in minimarkets from the farmers markets once in a while but we couldnt do much. We got stores to stop selling dixie cups of alcohol at 9 00 oclock in the morning for 25cents but we couldnt get them to sell Healthy Foods and this new proposition is a game changeer and as you mentioned supervisor mar there is evidence based. There is evidence in philadelphia and more importantly the evidence in bay view Hunters Point and i have seen the various groups working there with the city in that neighborhood. I know it can happen in the tenderloin and that in turn will set a precedent for the city and the state and the country. Thank you ve
In the language of your bill supervisor mar that part of the redesign of the store if at all possible take that into consideration and i dont know if that has been talked about but i think its extremely important because theyre part of our population, part of the people in San Francisco, and i think they deserve that type of recognition that they should be able to go into a small store, Corner Store Market and be able to get into some milk and bread, whatever without asking for someones help. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is fred and a food leader justice. I have learned [inaudible] about nutrition that i had no idea about nutrition before. I learned how on eat healthy and have a family. I came from the food a lot came from [inaudible] and now i teaching my family how to eat healthy. I guess Everybody Needs to eat health and he stay alive and i guess i just wanted being a food leader would help a lot of people live longer. I support the healthy food leader
Organizer with food justice and doing some of the management in the coalition and i would like to applaud you supervisors and doing this work and sets base and Community Work having a positive impact and providing resources to really expand the programs. In the healther Food Coalition started a year ago and we had a convening and residents identified the desire to turn the Corner Stores that tend to have negative impact into something positive and we got a coalition from the meeting and met with neighbors that showed a desire to have healthy food access in the neighborhood. We found through the surveying process residents are spending half of the food budget outside of the neighborhood and 50 a month owfdz the neighborhood. If you expand that to the 17,000 households in the tenderloin that is over 900,000 each month leaving the tenderloin and they dont have the food they want and we are encouraging this and a lot of the merchants are excited as well and a lot of the success is due to t
As you may know we are a coalition of over 25 Community Members and cbos and the Community Working collaboratively to ensure sustainable and affordable and healthy food is available to the residents in bay view Hunters Point. We have developed a Pilot Program for sustainable retail in the bay view Hunters Point neighborhood and in addition to the food guard guardians and Health Promotion throughout the country and influenced other efforts in other under served neighborhoods in the city and it has had recognition nationally as well as regionally. Promoting healthy food retailing promotes Good Nutrition and provide economic benefits such as supplying living wage job and the work is critical. The this is about addressing disparities and Economic Development and about jobs and entrepreneurship and revitalizing our commercial districts which these stores play a critical role. We need to keep our food dollars in the neighborhood and not leaking out and this goes a long way to that point. As
Cups of alcohol at 9 00 oclock in the morning for 25cents but we couldnt get them to sell Healthy Foods and this new proposition is a game changeer and as you mentioned supervisor mar there is evidence based. There is evidence in philadelphia and more importantly the evidence in bay view Hunters Point and i have seen the various groups working there with the city in that neighborhood. I know it can happen in the tenderloin and that in turn will set a precedent for the city and the state and the country. Thank you very much. Thank you doctor. Next speaker. Great to see you. I am dave sieler and representing t and dc and on the board of directors for the tenderloin corporation and i met you at the meeting for Healthy Corner stores and i have met jane and good to meet you scott. I support the healthy retain Incentive Program for what everybody said about t i know somebody mentioned about the Life Expectancy within the tenderloin or that area they also live in. I was looking on my computer