Increased demand on the dining room. And if the people have the kitchens that will be the quality and be able to use the benefits or use a local supplement or even go to the food pantry. And with that, i would like to go back to dr. Jones to talk about the next steps, thank you. Thank you, terry. So now you have heard some bit about the report, and some of the data, and some of our high priority items. And i really just like to summarize the recommendation from the next steps and first of all it is full utilization of our federal Nutrition Program and especially cal fresh, which will generate the local Economic Activity and keep these dollars in the community and support the Retail Stores also and that is the nonprofit partners ability to meet the growing demand, coming from our residents. To purchase the food and to be able to increase the amount of housing with the kitchens and the ability to cook and this will reduce the demand of the free dining rooms these reports are Available On
To me all of the time and ask, if i was sitting on the school board or even, now, being a supervisor, people are saying, what about the plot of land and what can we do and into the community garden. And i know that we have some throughout the city and any good information for me. And the colleagues may that we actually get a map of the Community Gardens may be and maybe overly with the spots and so whatever reason it is difficult to get the super markets in place for certain neighborhoods. And are there any strategies, around, that effort, we talk about the bigger super markets coming in there and is there a way to maybe reduce the size of things so that it is more manageable for people that are more local . To run these things . And other than the chains . And more than that the city, can help with some of the issues that challenges the super markets, and i think that one of the challenges for it and the city that it does not cost the smaller business that extra money and maybe they c
Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities, and just to underbehind this, and save money. Save money in the long haul. We have deficits coming down, theyre still too much. Down from 1. 4 trillion, i think, four years ago, this year expected to be down to about 550 billion. Only 550 billion. Thats still way too much and we have to continue to look in every nook and cranny and figure out how do we save more money. Thats the focus of todays hearing. But, i will try to take about five minutes for my Opening Statement and yield to senator joh
Will be a difficulty for the people to be food secure with the healthy diets and the need is just too great and as a community, if we are serious about addressing the Food Security we have to address this gap. It will be available through the providers and distributed to a broader set of people, not everybody is eligible and if you are eligible, many people are not enrolled and so we dont want that to be a barrier and we could use the existing networks, such as Health Providers and School Counselors and certainly or other agencies like dos and hsa, we want to expand this beyond the farmers, and beyond Farmers Market as much as that provides, an accident source of food in our city. But we want to include the retail as well. We then drive the activity into the community and it benefits all, creating it. 19,000 do not have kitchens and which means that these people have no ability, relatively to little or no ability to actually store the food in the fridge and prepare the food in any way,
Without all of these individuals. ~ i want to take a moment and acknowledge supervisor cohen who i know wanted initial comment on what was just discussed. Yes, one very brief comment. I want to go on record and make sure were very clear were not asking employers or housing providers, were not asking for favors or a preference, per se, but we are asking them to not automatically disqualify people solely based on a conviction history, conviction history, if you think about it, think about it in relationship to your credit history. Oftentimes on our own individual Credit Histories there are mevishes or things that are mistakenly put on this. ~ blemishes there are people who are wrongfully convicted and exonerated. Denying them to move forward with their life. I want to make sure that we give voice to this very important piece of legislation and i would welcome every member to support this. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor kim. And supervisor cohen. Supervisor mar. For your introduction, s