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Aging and Adult Services commission. Can we have roll call james, present. Dodd highly is excused loo is excused powell, present. Roy, here. Sims speaker please note executive director mcspadden is present because we have a very long agenda before we approve the agenda we are going to table a lot of the reports because a lot of these items require action and i know you want to see you are contracts approved. So we are going to table all of the reports until next month unless theres something urg...

[gavel] good morning. Welcome to the aging and Adult Services commission. Can we have roll call james, present. Dodd highly is excused loo is excused powell, present. Roy, here. Sims speaker please note executive director mcspadden is present because we have a very long agenda before we approve the agenda we are going to table a lot of the reports because a lot of these items require action and i know you want to see you are contracts approved. So we are going to table all of the reports until n...

Executive director mcspadden is present because we have a very long agenda before we approve the agenda we are going to table a lot of the reports because a lot of these items require action and i know you want to see you are contracts approved. So we are going to table all of the reports until next month unless theres something urgent. With that will also table under new business item 7 cla six month report. We will table back also and i think that was about it that what we were tabling today. ...

Aging and Adult Services commission. Can we have roll call james, present. Dodd highly is excused loo is excused powell, present. Roy, here. Sims speaker please note executive director mcspadden is present because we have a very long agenda before we approve the agenda we are going to table a lot of the reports because a lot of these items require action and i know you want to see you are contracts approved. So we are going to table all of the reports until next month unless theres something urg...

Executive director mcspadden is present because we have a very long agenda before we approve the agenda we are going to table a lot of the reports because a lot of these items require action and i know you want to see you are contracts approved. So we are going to table all of the reports until next month unless theres something urgent. With that will also table under new business item 7 cla six month report. We will table back also and i think that was about it that what we were tabling today. ...

Pushing on it. When you see im pushing on it, the upper stiff of the wall stay straight up but the lower floors, they actually collapse just like i did there. Luckily, we can put this building right back up where it came from so its a lot easier. Now kelly, obviously these arent real frame walls here but when you talk about buildings, what makes the property for stiff . The easiest and most costeffective type of bracing you can put in is either put in a brand new wall or to potentially go in and...

We know that Food Security and Healthy Eating are really complex policy issues and you cannot just look at the issue from one dimension. And we search for a way to communicate this better and understand it better but we found it from the World Health Organization to be helpful for us and we have modified that. And so it has allowed us to accurately examine the issue. Food resource and access and consumption, the ability to have the resources to purpose the food. And this can come from your incom...

Consumption, the ability to have the resources to purpose the food. And this can come from your income oracle fresh or wic and other programs. Access to nutritionally appropriate food convenient to you and either through the food retaylor the food meal programs. And then, the Food Consumption really refers to the ability to prepare healthy meals and then the knowledge basic of the nutrition and food safety and cooking and so this is where, the whole area around cooking nutritional education and ...

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...