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Youre on. Caller great points. I think part of the problem is were used to going short wars. We get in, get out, and surprising or not we get peace with the countries we were warring with five years ago. Amazing. Not too many nations have that record. We have our hands in the tar baby, a thousand or two thousand year war which is completely different than the wars we get into usually. The other problem we have is after, with korea vietnam, we had two countries with changes in equation completely...

Phones and electronic devices. Thank you, i want to thank all of you for being here today and i know that we have a number of amazing people who are in the audience and it is customary when there is a former member of the board of supervisors to acknowledge their presence. But i want to take that to a step further and acknowledge the presence of a very important lady, whose husband served on the board of supervisors who in many respects, is the grand of the San Francisco democratic party, so jan...

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...

Supervisors who in many respects, is the grand of the San Francisco democratic party, so jane, if you could please. Jane morrison. Item one isordinance amending the police code to update the list of city job classifications responsible for enforcement of litter laws and having the power to Issue Citations for that purpose. This has been introduced by supervisor cohen and we have a presentation. Good morning supervisors, doug from the department of public works and if there are any questions, i a...

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 ...

And grocery and our summer lunch and after School Snack Programs and serve the free meals in the dining rooms and shelter and serves fresh fruits and vegetables. To offer more nutrition food and offer the nutrition programs and even in the food in the urban gardens and they also treat the health needs of the residents and many of whom do not have have the food. And this is the result of many, many people coming together and these this help to identify the assets and the challenge and develop the...

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...

Reach and then Enforcement Program that is funded through the garbage rates. And that program is going to be led, with the class 2917 rkts and so there will be a total of 8 people. And on this team there are going to be out in the neighbors they are going to be doing primarily out reach and trying to reduce the amount of Illegal Dumping that is going on in our city. And making sure that everybody has adequate service and are complying with the citys codes to keep the city clean. There are a numb...

San francisco and the food banks and the tender loin, development and the ucsf center for populations at San Francisco general hospital. As we come together, we really work to figure out how to collaborate and how to improve this situation we know that there are programs that we can get data for but we wanted to see the system as a whole and to be able to have the data to analyze that and we wanted to make this Information Available to groups and other department so that we will be able to join ...