And sugary beverage and of course, a lot of our populations suffer from most of these Health Disparities and i really came to together, not only about the Health Disparities but also about the opportunity that this is going to be and how this is going to actually effect the district in our students and our schools, and the district has already banned the soda from the schools which is a great job, and that is important, and someone who is a father, who has raised children and know how hard it is to say no to kids when they ask for things that they want, as a god parent now and as someone who works and mentors a lot of young children, it is hard, it is a hard choice, sometimes, but if we have to make it harder for the family and parents, to make a choice, that could negatively impact their child or someone elses child, and i am definitely and i am in full support of that and if we look at the economic factor and the opportunity for the district, it looks like it is going to be about a e
And the top line approval rating, 86 percent of the population approves the reauthorization of the Public Education and Enrichment Fund and 85 percent of the population approves for the reauthorization of the childrens amendment and so anyone who is saying, that the sugary beverage tax with pull down, pulling 35 do 36 percent has a personal political agenda or works for the American Beverage Association. And the math just is not there and if we are going to be a datadriven district, we cant be only data driven when the data works the way that we want it to work, if it is inconvenient politically that the data tells what the data tell us, we still have to listen to the data and so i have five copy ts of this poll and you happy to share with it anyone who likes it and that is whatvy to say. Okay. Next speaker, thank you. Good evening, commissioners. And superintendent cars, i am with the united educators fp San Francisco and for the past couple of years, united educators have talked abou
Thank you. Hi, my name is anna greman and i am a Research Associate and i work for dr. Petal whocy physician and director of pediatrics. And i am here to tell you a couple of other storis from our work that i think will hopefully add to the convincing evidences that you will support this resolution and we do a lot of work in schools and in child care facilities to promote Healthy Beverage consumption and we did an intervention in 12 schools in the bay area including three in San Francisco unified. And even when we installed, fancy water machine and did a lot of promotion, we saw the students drinking sugar sweetened beverages and so i owned the kids bringing in the two liters of soda and took the cups from the water machine and we observed the kids purchase being soda from the fire stations or from 7eleven and so all of this is to say that the changes that happen in the school are not enough and we know that from our work and we know that as well because you see the kids buying the sod
Populations suffer from most of these Health Disparities and i really came to together, not only about the Health Disparities but also about the opportunity that this is going to be and how this is going to actually effect the district in our students and our schools, and the district has already banned the soda from the schools which is a great job, and that is important, and someone who is a father, who has raised children and know how hard it is to say no to kids when they ask for things that they want, as a god parent now and as someone who works and mentors a lot of young children, it is hard, it is a hard choice, sometimes, but if we have to make it harder for the family and parents, to make a choice, that could negatively impact their child or someone elses child, and i am definitely and i am in full support of that and if we look at the economic factor and the opportunity for the district, it looks like it is going to be about a estimated 2 Million Dollars a year that will come
Well be happy to answer any questions. Any questions . Thank you. The next speaker is Robert Vargas with ucfs with the policy program. They have advised on the Health Impacts and hes here to respond to the report. Good morning. Thanks for having the budget and legislative office prepare this report. We are happy to be a part of gathering this data and helping it to be more accessible to the rest of the folks in the city. We really think its important that folks are wear of the Health Impacts of this particular product. We are also very interested in partnering with the city and the university to inform policy decisions and Public Health approaches and take a look at the most Current Research and we believe that we have some highly qualified researchers at our university to help with that information. I think this is a really important report for presenting what is a very difficult issue without having all of this information is difficult to understand. This information is really helpfu