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Fresh Drinking Water is available really everywhere, not just institutions. Looking at healthy defaults so that the beverage that is the first beverage of choice is Something Like low or nonfat milk or water. Working with child care centers, continuing to work on organizational wellness policies, looking at systemic, there is a great policy around bottled water and not using our funds to buy bottled water as an environmental concern, but the concern that that raises sometimes has been that makes...

One outcome of that is anecdotally, people told us that they started to drink more water once they understood where it comes from. But also as people had Water Quality concerns, some of the concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact ...

To have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office 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...

And thank you very much and i am available for questions. Can i ask that you repeat the statistics and its more profitable to sell produce than 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...

The farmers markets once in a while but we couldnt do much. We got stores to stop selling dixie 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 ha...

Concerns that christina alluded to in her presentation, people started calling 311 more. So, we had a 10 increase in Water Quality concerns and that again became another vehicle to talk to people about where their water came from to test to make sure the water was safe and assure them that, you know, in fact it was safe to drink. We also do tours of our water system. So, Community Residents and organization has an opportunity to go up to hetch hetchy to see the water system at work. Supervisor c...

In half for cavities as well. It wasnt as notable in the other populations. They dont completely have an answer as to why. It may be that in communities like the bayview where there is one Dental Clinic for 33,000 people, there is limited access to preventive dental care. But again, i dont know thats the answer, but that may be one of the reasons. So, i just want to talk a little bit about some requirements that we are now working on and by we it really is many of our colleagues working on this....

Over due, and i think im going to have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office 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...

Brought in minimarkets from the farmers markets once in a while but we couldnt do much. We got stores to stop selling dixie 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 ne...

Carrying these Healthy Foods and thank you very much and i am available for questions. Can i ask that you repeat the statistics and its more profitable to sell produce than 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. Ci...