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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 ...

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...

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...

And this lake should be seen as a habitat primarily. And yes, like i said in the rational world, we would expect that rec and park could have the recreation and that would be done in harmony. That is not what we see in the park and other instances and so. I would concur, with your local Community Folks that live around that lake, that even though it can get unusual, it is really the sfpuc who has the expertise and showing the kind of commitment on the lands like this to actually manage them prop...

And the aspect of the program has concluded that the program and the funding our capitol plan for ten years total. I think that you would come up. And that is a concern of mine is and so now, i clearly understand it and i appreciate that and i only have one last clarification. And once we start to rule out whatever we are going to rule out from this point forward, there is going to be conversation and there is going to be labor components and we did get it back on how we will let that out and th...

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 ...

Pilot program. Will we begin to analyze that and then no longer make those references and just call it a program and a budget item of the puc . Well, it does not address that specifically, and my hope is that as we move towards a customer, you know, a San Francisco customer, based program, that, that that will have the effect of terminating it. And i dont know if we ever need to make a formal declaration i think that if we are starting with our own customer its changes character and i think that...

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...

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...

Discover these other items like cigarettes and alcohol are a smaller of the total store sales. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is a cochair of the southeast work group and some of the other leaders. Michael janice and the Produce Market or the manager for the wholesale Produce Market and i know that for healthy fresh food that is one thing but affordable food is another thing and thank you for your role in making sure that we have affordable food. Thank you supervisors. As you may know we...