Advantage even when they qualify. You have the opportunity to provide 22,000 a day, but those 22,000 a day are not being used one hundred percent 100 percent of the time. They are being used how many percentage of the time . If there is 10 kids who qualify for the Lunch Program not all 10 kids are going to eat lunch every single day at a school. I was just wondering what your capacity for providing daily lunches, whats the percentage of kids that are taking full advantage of that on an average daily basis. How many kids are eating lunches on an average basis. Our enrollment is around 60,000. Sorry. We are having this conversation here. Of the 22,000 are those being eater. Those are being served, about 24,000 of those are elementary meals. Those are actually eaten everyday oovm but but you have the capacity to do even more. If this beverage tax passes and there is additional funding available you would actually use it inform are this program to provide additional meals or better meals .
Job, i have health care, teamster pension in the green zone and now an 18yearold that isnt cut out for college. I wasnt cut out for college. Thats why i too k this job. These are good paying jobs for us. Whats going to happen to us if this passes its not just a soda tax. There is more than soedz being taxed. We are labeled as bad people which i feel us as workers are being attacked for this. Das being taxed. We are labeled as bad people which i feel us as workers are being attacked for this. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Mitchell Parker and im a parent. And in district 1 and i work a few blocks away from the public housing. Im here representing the Second District pta. We unanimously endorse this measure or this initiative, the legislation in february. Im also here representing the parents of Political Action committee and we are supported this initiative back in the fall. I think we can agree that parents want the same thing and that is the best chance for success for their ch
Walker. The chair. Im in bayview hunters point. Several years now the department of university of california and Health Initiative and in the last several years have made an attempt to educate the community in that particular area. I also belong to the tabernacle Development Corporation of all the churches in here concerned about these beverages issues. When i hear so much intelligence and statistics about the audience it helped me to commit more and more to put energy and time because it reflects especially in ethnic areas of groups of poverty and people for whatever reason dont have that quality of life to be educated and informed. I myself i walk four days 4 days a week and stopped drinking soda pop four 4 years ago, me and my family. It was proven that it was so detrimental. My last comment, what is so unjust, so unrighteous for the industry to add 2 percent per ounce to assist people with scene tifk information to show that its detrimental to our community. Thank you very much. Th
Robles [speaker not understood], the world health organization. She said, today many people dont live healthy life styles and Healthy Behaviors face opposition from forces that are not so friendly. It forces [speaker not understood] is a powerful he economic operators. ~ Public Health must also contend with big food, big soda, and big [speaker not understood]. All this to protect regulation [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. So, we have very big position. In the next few months we have to be ready to confront all these lies on tv and radio. We have a program in spanish every tuesday and i have been talking a lot about the [speaker not understood] beverage and i open the lines and i hear from the community. So, its something our communities in california, [speaker not understood], we want more community to know this is poison to our people, but also it is a movement youre going to be leading if you will [speaker not understood] in San Francisco. Thank you so much for yo
Really important to look at how to change the environment for folk in communities that are most impacted which includes making Healthy Foods more available and local retail as well as looking for ways to look at policy and regulation to reduce access to unHealthy Foods including sugary drinks. So, i want to thank you all for bringing this to the attention of the public and thank you for this opportunity for folk to talk about just how bad sugary drinks are for our health because were finding out in the community that folk dont know yet just how bad this is to community health. We are also conducting focus groups currently in community to hear about what Community Folks think with regards to what the science is about what kind of a policy interventions we need to use. So, well share that information with you all as soon as we learn what Community Folks think about different policy interventions and wed love to partner with you all to make sure that were doing what the science says is th