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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 hav...

Have the report. I want to note for the record that we have been joined by scott weiner. And the second challenge around the Food Resources is the fact that again, cal fresh which is the Food Stamp Program is highly effective but it is under enrolled as a state of cal, we actually ranked last in the country, in terms of participation in this program. The local food stamps has been growing over the past years. And the growth is pretty phenomenal. Now as you all probably heard in the media, there ...

And finally you can see that the big white slides there and this is roughly a third of all of the meals, that is needed for the low income population have no identifiable resource. And that does not mean that the people cannot eat those meals, but it does enable to say, that we are a long way from meeting the needs of the low income in our city. And when you total up, to the actual number of meals and what you see, and i am sorry on property jeks is the total missing meals is a total of 74 milli...

Will be a difficulty for the people to be food secure with the healthy diets and the need is just too great and as a community, if we are serious about addressing the Food Security we have to address this gap. 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 Counse...

All of those have a very similar nexus reaching the population of the city. After being established for a few years, the office is really has worked in three key areas. Its a Policies Office through programs like our Community Ambassadors program and we do grant making around i am grant immigration initiatives. Thats a snapshot of the offices. The Community Ambassadors is one of our premier programs that started in 2010. Just some background on the program. It started in the bayview on the 10th ...

The program. They keep activity logs of the programs they do as ambassadors and they really bring with them a tremendous wealth of personal experience. A lot of them have experienced homelessness and a lot of them have varied levels of ability and a lot dealt with Substance Abuse and other kinds of personal trauma that allowed them to have that compassion that we work for as community ambassadors. Behind me is the office from the Central Market community team. And two of our other ambassadors ar...

Are there any questions from councilmembers . Identify i have a couple comments. First of all my question is are the buses going to be running on the cables or out of diesel buses . These are diesel buses. So they can go anywhere . Yes. You said, will you have the capability of doing 45 showers per day . It could be more, but depends on how long it takes us to do the pilot program. We want to give people as much time and want to be able to serve as many people as possible. The showers are on 10m...

Educate people some type of knowledge. Too many people while they are on the streets or sro hotels come here and stay here are literate. Ill iterate brings fear. You dont know nothing, the only thing is what you see and you dont understand it. Illiteracy is the first thing you run into. I often see how people say, i come to this city and i didnt know there was this many gay people here. This is San Francisco. Its things like this that we dont do a good job of bringing people into shelter. Let th...

But unfortunately there are other services that they can take advantage of, so we have her wait listed on the home deliver groceries program. And you can see that she is missing over one meal every single day and meaning that she is making hard choices or skim ping or rationing. And for the family, it is slightly maybe a little more complicate and this is a typical family. We put the family at the top of the income range for cal fresh and that 130 percent gross income of 130 percent of federal p...

Iterate brings fear. You dont know nothing, the only thing is what you see and you dont understand it. Illiteracy is the first thing you run into. I often see how people say, i come to this city and i didnt know there was this many gay people here. This is San Francisco. Its things like this that we dont do a good job of bringing people into shelter. Let the education start there. The Library Shows people are there day and night to read. I love to walk around seeing people read rather than getti...