Good morning, everyone. Good morning. And i think we should get started. It is another important, big day nga and we have important work to do. Im door to mcauliffe, first lady of virginia, and chair of the spouses leadership committee, and it is my honor to welcome you all to this very special winter meeting, joint session for governors and thousand. Today, we are talking about ending child hunger, improving lives, and investing in americas future. I want to thank on the governors here this morning and espouses and the many Partner Organizations in attendance this morning. I will say it is my understanding that it has been several years since there has been a joint session of this nature at the nda, so nga, so im excited for the unique opportunity to have the spouses at the table. I want to give my acknowledgment. Excusednd does have an absence this morning. Hes currently at fox news extolling the good work being done here this weekend for the nga. He will be joining us later in the s
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, except in a hot plate or a mike wave and that limits the option to prepare the food and they are certainly more expensive or putting more increased demand on the dining room. And if the people have the kitchen
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, except in a hot plate or a mike wave and that limits the option to prepare the food and they are certainly more expensive or putting more 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
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