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Allocated to urban agriculture. So, that identified that these departments were playing a leadership role. The second recommendation, the one that im here to speak a little bit more on key tail on, is that the rec and Park Department should be the lead agency for the urban ag program. And finally, that San Franciscos public spending on urban ag is significant and should be used to leverage new private investment. Were really excited to have someone on board who can help us look for private fundi...

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 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 inclu...

Okay, thanks. And unless there is anyone from the city administrators office, why dont we now go to Public Comment. I have a couple of Public Comment cards. I want to first acknowledge eli [speaker not understood] from spur. [speaker not understood] from the San Francisco urban agriculture alliance. And then andrea i think its jag win from the white Spring Community garden. And anyone else who would like to speak in Public Comment, if you can please line up on the righthand side of this room. El...

Mr. Kwong. Thank you, john kwong [speaker not understood]. Tunnel under winston drive to connect two portions of the campus. If you can give me the overhead, please. Please note that the location this is lake merced boulevard, this is winston drive. San Francisco State has campus is divided by one moment, mr. Kwong. Can we please close that door back there . Thank you. As you can see why dont we just wait for people exiting. Okay, go ahead. Thank you. As noted, this is lake merced boulevard. Thi...

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The Food Security task force. Thank you. Thank you, maria. Any questions . Okay. I just have a question. Ms. Leclair, thank you so much for your service. I wanted to ask you a question that might be separate from this particular issue, but you work with wic and i was wondering, was any information communicated to you about the ten cent bag fee and that if someone receives wic, that they dont have the bag fee is waived . No, they havent. Okay. I dont know anything about that. But i can find out. ...

Im mapper raoe ya leclair, ive been in this position for 19 and a half years and i also supervise on the wic program director, wic is the women, infant and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program for lowincome women, infants and children up to the age of 5. I have been a wic director for different agencies, i was in san mateo and i also worked in the Central Valley at a federally qualified Health Center for 35 years now, and my passion has always been nutrition and how to get food to those in ne...

Thousand cases representing over 40 thousand San Francisco residents served by this program. Upwards of 7 Million Dollars in cal fresh benefits are issued each month in San Francisco, mostly trance transacted by large retailers, now a third of our monthly applications come in online, during my tenure with cal fresh, we established a Restaurant Meal Program where lowincome, homeless or disabled individuals can eat hot meals, now 7 other california counties operate such a program. Yet theres still...

Either at a community center, at a church or some place like that. We also have over 19 thousand Housing Units without cooking facilities, without kitchens in San Francisco, this is a big problem for Food Security, and they looked at the food needs of residents in San Francisco living at 185 of poverty or less, so the qualifications for a reduced price lunch and belore or wic envelope, and they looked at all the resources that are out there from cal fresh, from wic, from school meals, all of the...