The midday meal eaten during the school day. Its a barometer of social trends. Once upon a time, lots more kids headed home at lunch time or brought a meal prepared at home. Millions more children now live too far from school to go home, attend schools that are closed campuses that dont allow students to leave the building during the day and even if they could head home, there is nobody there. Women with schoolage children now work at a much higher rate than decades ago. Throw in a higher Child Poverty rate and making policy around lunch gets complicated. Whats the best school meal . A cheap one . A new atrocious one . One a school kid will actually eat . All of that and who gets to say what should be in a school meal is not the responsibility of nutritionists or educators because it involves money, the argument centers around politicians and a woman who is influential, well known and hasnt been elected anything. Michelle obama. As the end of the school year approaches for kids across
Be diligent in making sure this actually happens. The department of technology, its a new thing for the department in terms of having to navigate all the different departments and utilities involved in these road projects. And as weve learned in term of pedestrian projects and other street design projects, it is sometimes like navigating an obstacle course. Every department or someone within the department has a reason to say no. Its not feasible, its not doable. Its too expensive, its too difficult. And we need to really make sure that our departments have a cando attitude about getting this conduit laid. It is not rocket science. It just needs to happen and we need to have our departments have an attitude that it can and will happen. And we need to support the department of technology when other departments or utilities just say no and obstruct the ability to actually get this done. In committee, i offered an amendment that was adopted to require periodic reporting by the department
Employment and our economy is back up. We have many more people in cars, particularly in our neighborhoods as they circle around the 80, 101 and 280 freeway to get in and out of the city. And i know that more and more of our residents are asking what we as a city are doing about the quality of air. For them and also many of our families that are raising their children in these neighborhood so im really glad we are going to be putting into place an air filter system for all of our new construction. And i really look forward to working with the department of Public Health to ensure that we can provide some options for existing construction in this neighborhood, particularly for buildings that can do that quickly and then look at what options there are for buildings that may not be able to afford to. But im glad we are moving at least this forward today. Colleagues, can we take it same house same call . Without objection this ordinance is passed on First Reading. [gavel] next item a. Item
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