He spoke at an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center. Hello, everybody i hope you can hear me. My name is dan glickman. Michael moderator and former secretary my coat moderator and former secretary. We welcome you to this Bipartisan Policy Center food summit. We want to thank you all for being here. We want to thank our guests and secretary perdue who we will introduce in a minute. This has become one of the most talked about issues of the whole covid19 issues. Have to relate to the food supply from production to the processing to the distributing to the conception and how it affects farmers, how it affects processors and how it affects the average persons and the hungry. We are delighted to be here. We cannot delve into every issue because of the time but it is a way to start the discussion. We think you will have an interesting time listening to this very important issue about feeding this country. I would like to welcome everybody and thank you policy center for hosting this
Hello everybody and i hope you can hear me. Sonnon the secretary of agricule along with my co moderator and and rated and you are here today to welcome you to this Bipartisan Policy Center food summit. We want to thank you all for being here. We want to thank our guests and especially secretary sonny perdue who we will introduce in a minute. This is become one of the most talked about issues of the whole covid19 issue. It has to relate to the food supply. From the production to the processing to the distributing to the consumption. And how it affects farmers, how it affects processors and how it affects the average person and particularly the hungry. So we are delighted to be here. We can dove into every issue in great depth because of the time. But its a way to start the discussion and we think we will have an interesting time listening to this very important issue about feeding this country. So i would like to again welcome everybody and thank the Bipartisan Policy Center for their h
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The authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and Small Business. Sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda item today. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak are available by calling 8882045984 using access code 3501008 and pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, you dial one and zero when the q a period opens, and you will be allowed to submit your testimony. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. I will announce when your time is up and direct my staff to take the next person in the queue to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or computer. At this time i would like to take roll. President hyland. Here. Vice president matsuda. Here. C
To express it is unprecedented. We have seen significant spikes in demand. We have seen reductions in supply. And right when people needed it the most need it the most. Host what does your organization do . How broad do you reach . Guest how network is 200 food banks around the united states. In normal times, around 60,000 pantries, 2 million volunteers. We have often said that we are serving every community where there is Food Insecurity. That means every single county and parish in the united states. In normal times, we serve every parish and county in the united states. Host in the last month, what has been harder, tougher to get . The need of people who need food or the ability of your organization to get it . Those are equally difficult challenges. I am sure your audience has seen that wee retail outlets have historically relied upon for donated food have empty shelves. When there shelves are empty, they are not in a position to donate to us. The largest source of food for our net