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Service program say aye. The motion carries. U, requesting authorization to enter into a new Grant Agreement with San Francisco Marin Food Bank for the provision of homedelivered groceries for the period of july 1, 2014 through june 30, 2016 in a total grant amount not to exceed 625,959. Could i have a motion to discuss . Second. Okay we are on. Okay, so with this San Francisco Marin Food Bank this is a new contract to provide homedelivered groceries. They will be working with many nonprofit org...

Any questions . Commissioner katie loo. How many meals have they served here, do you know . More recently our data seems to be they are serving about 50 people a day on some days. Other days its higher. I think staff from self help for the elderly might be able to give us more accurate information. I was there actually this monday after the grand opening at west portal, the senior center, our colleagues went to lunch there and we saw during an hour 25 seniors already there having lunch. But the ...

Pay. And you are correct, i mean, theres a lot of factors that we take into consideration in negotiating the rate based on, you know, the type of meal that will be provided, the organization structure, what type of meal, what the meal preparation situation is, are they getting it through a caterer because not all the centers have their own kitchen. Like project open hand has their own central kitchen and when they have a much higher volume of meals those costs generally are lower too so the size...

Ann quinton with meals on wheels. We were able to hire a new rd and she actually speaks chinese as well shes bilingual, then we hired another rd that speaks french and a tiny bit of spanish so well see what happens with that. On staff we certainly have people that are speaking spanish and chinese and russian as well and our social work staff and drivers. So you do counseling, do you have materials in different languages that you give to the clients also . We do translate that into the languages ...

Districts. And the site actually has the type of meals that they provide, the meal hours, the contact phone number, et cetera, and we do share those with the public, with the consumers when they call, find out where things are. Okay, back to glide. So for glide we are recommending an additional amount of 85,693 with a revised grant total amount not to exceed 386,564. With glide this increase will basically increase our service with them from 5 days a week to 7 days a week. There is definitely a ...

Supervisor mar culeeges my honorees spent 50 erwheres of activism. 50 yeerbs of a stoinium of struggle for Racial Justice and solidarity with African American communities. I want to call up the organizers from asian for black lives. [inaudible] and 50 year sell mu march veteran vensent woo could you please come forward . Im just going to say that as we learned from the watts rebellion and new york and detroit thun 60s and baltimore and ferguson murb missouri that racism is with us. 5 oyears of a...

Hunters point as the Pilot Project for gardening but hopefully when more funding is coming in i hope that you will spread out the good gardening to other neighborhoods. [inaudible] thank you. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Just one. Its not going just to hunters point. Its actually in the western edition. So there is more than one spot . Correct. There are three. Oh three. The money is going. Very good. Thank you. Any other comme...

Noted. Thank you. Commissioner ow. Yes, i want to congratulate the staff as picking the Hunters Point as the Pilot Project for gardening but hopefully when more funding is coming in i hope that you will spread out the good gardening to other neighborhoods. [inaudible] thank you. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Just one. Its not going just to Hunters Point. Its actually in the western edition. So there is more than one spot . Corre...

Snaped so its all one pot of money that we will now be reporting to the state on as one pot of money with three categories so for reporting requirements through our funder were going to have to report on the overarching snaped money with the three programs, nutrition education, gardening and thai chi. I would imagine there are some communities where the snaped is going to one so its not confusing but to have this laid out and who the funder is and how were getting the money and the overarching o...

Assisted with Planning Efforts for m line. On the ta project deliverry support, this helps sceer project funding and working with cal trans mtc and pral for high way to make sure funds are available and used in a timely way. That is my presentation and here to answer questions. Just want to thank ta for being able to present in how they can support the budget as well. It is also good to hear that one of the assumptions in mtas budget for prop k dollars for follow the paving may be more of a mini...