Earned the highest level of achievement with four stars in the program. Not only has oaklands transformation led to benefit for students, the local economy and the environment, but theyve done this while reducing per meal costs. Our partners at friends of the earth documented over this two years, student participation and satisfaction in the School Meals Program increased. Just to conclude, as we build more and more purchasing power from cities and School Districts, were not only leveraging the buying power, but Building Collective voice and power of local coalitions and local leaders to improve our food system on a large scale. San Francisco City and county has an extraordinary opportunity to once again lead the way, by becoming the first city in the county to develop the program. Now wed like to introduce lauren, product manager of Student Nutrition Services at the San Francisco Unified School District who will be presenting on the experience with adopting and implementing their good
This policy will make sure we use dollars to employ companies that treat workers humanely. Thats why teamsters are strong spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and its goal of achieving healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all workers and producers in the Food Supply Chain. Among those working in the Food Supply Chain are Migrant Workers, including agricultural labors who are vulnerable to risk forecasts for Human Trafficking. A study published by San Diego State university found in 2010, among undocumented Spanish Speaking Migrant Workers in san diego county, over 30 were subjected to practices meeting the Legal Definition of Human Trafficking and as many as 55 had been exploited. They fight against the abuses to establish transparenc
From u. S. Foods, where the food is sourced, the cost and availability of some of the products, some of the more sustainable organic products would have a cost for our department. And then just the contract and vendor process in terms of the city process and working through that to maybe open up to alternate vendors or having other contracts that would allow us to purchase those products. Thats all. Thank you. Supervisor rone supervisor ronen thank you very much. Supervisor fewer i would like to introduce paul from the Sheriffs Department, how good Food Purchasing might be part of their work. Good morning, supervisors, thank you for having us here today to talk about this great program. I handed out a few information pieces there and im not sure if i can put that on there. Ill be brief. I wanted to give you overview of the food service in the jail system. We wefsh 14 both to the incarcerated and Staff Members throughout the 24hour period. Air mark is our current provider. We have one i
Spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and its goal of achieving healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all workers and producers in the Food Supply Chain. Among those working in the Food Supply Chain are Migrant Workers, including agricultural labors who are vulnerable to risk forecasts for Human Trafficking. A study published by San Diego State university found in 2010, among undocumented Spanish Speaking Migrant Workers in san diego county, over 30 were subjected to practices meeting the Legal Definition of Human Trafficking and as many as 55 had been exploited. They fight against the abuses to establish transparency. The good Food Purchasing standards are based on third party verification. These audits provide an impetus for positive
Im the seniorsy advocate youve heard a great deal with the work that the organization has done in evaluating the program in the Oakland School district, i dont need to repeat that here, but we want to emphasize that our organization sees this initiative important enough that i made it here today. This is not actually my normal realm of work, i tend to work in sacramento, but we really believe the city of San Francisco could do something here to help california to make sure it meets with the rhetoric of being a global leader. We hope youll continue, thank you. Im a volunteer with food San Francisco and also a conscious consumer. Im here on a personal note because for ten years of my life i suffered severely from depression. And when i was 18, i attempted suicide and shortly after i was put on zoloft and when that didnt work, well beau well. And prozac, and then i was told he could no longer write me prescriptions because i had moved. Being the 22yearold i was, i had no idea how insuranc