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Through the farmer markets or establishments and again i want to thank the folks that came together around this measure to and move it forward with supervisor mar. Thank you. Now i would like to ask the two departments that are administering this Healthy Food Retailer Program and before susan and the department of Public Health thats the real vision before the program i want to ask jorge to present. Hello and i am with the office of Economic Development and we are excited to be part of this and ...

In the language of your bill supervisor mar that part of the redesign of the store if at all possible take that into consideration and i dont know if that has been talked about but i think its extremely important because theyre part of our population, part of the people in San Francisco, and i think they deserve that type of recognition that they should be able to go into a small store, Corner Store Market and be able to get into some milk and bread, whatever without asking for someones help. Th...

Corner stores that sell cigarettes and alcohol to neighborhoods that have much more businesses that sell healthy affordable and Fresh Produce. I also wanted to say that many of the food justice and access leaders that i have had the honor of working with helped me understand that food access and the struggle for healthy food in neighborhoods is a civil rights issue for many of the lowest income neighborhoods and on a city wide level as well, so this legislation sets up a Pilot Program that is ci...

Organizer with food justice and doing some of the management in the coalition and i would like to applaud you supervisors and doing this work and sets base and Community Work having a positive impact and providing resources to really expand the programs. In the healther Food Coalition started a year ago and we had a convening and residents identified the desire to turn the Corner Stores that tend to have negative impact into something positive and we got a coalition from the meeting and met with...

Get a license but a large store can and a lounge has trouble becoming ada compliant and if they do so theyre going to lose the license and a store may close down and not reopen again because the special use district would cause the Liquor License to be forfeited so over time the district was starting to stifle positive change and innovation in the neighborhood and it was time to take action, and i really want to thank supervisor campos because for me i have always been i have clear and public vi...

As you may know we are a coalition of over 25 Community Members and cbos and the Community Working collaboratively to ensure sustainable and affordable and healthy food is available to the residents in bay view Hunters Point. We have developed a Pilot Program for sustainable retail in the bay view Hunters Point neighborhood and in addition to the food guard guardians and Health Promotion throughout the country and influenced other efforts in other under served neighborhoods in the city and it ha...

Area the Life Expectancy is much lower than someone in a desirable zip code so that is note they looked at there. I also looked on the computer six habits of highly successful people on the internet they looked at and people that are successful get up ahead of time, work time and may look at a newspaper or period on the cal or a civil help book and may do exercising and. And eat a healthy breakfast. People who are successful think about their health a lot. They get out there and think about bein...

Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on one off exemptions to the mission alcohol special use district because while this isnt just my view that this special use district served an important purpose when it was first enacted 20 years ago in terms of combating alcohol blight in the mission. Over time in my view out lived its usefulness, and we saw a few years ago at the Bowling Alley that went on at 17th and south van ness that project was going to fall apart because they werent going to be a...

Alcohol and cigarettes. Sure. I have been involved in the natural Food Industry for 3540 years and clearly what is happening is that there is a Strong Demand for these natural Food Products and also produce, so these numbers the gros Profit Margins that the stores can have and be competitive is between the 30 and 40 range. Cigarettes is 11 and alcohol is 25 so there is incentive to be more profitable and always as they will discover these other items like cigarettes and alcohol are a smaller of ...

Cups of alcohol at 9 00 oclock in the morning for 25cents but we couldnt get them to sell Healthy Foods and this new proposition is a game changeer and as you mentioned supervisor mar there is evidence based. There is evidence in philadelphia and more importantly the evidence in bay view Hunters Point and i have seen the various groups working there with the city in that neighborhood. I know it can happen in the tenderloin and that in turn will set a precedent for the city and the state and the ...