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 partnering with the department of Public Department of Public Health. This will be implemented through the framework of healthy neighborhoods and its a collaborative effort to bring resources to corridors across the city and this is one of the programs that are offered to the businesses who want to convert their conner stores into a Healthy Retailer. Not own have access to the incentives but the other ones that we have to offer and ada money and other things and what not and the businesses will
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 city wide that draws from the amazing work from the bay view and the tenderloin neighborhoods and other neighborhoods as well. I also wanted to say too its a coalition of not only the food access groups and grass root organizations but Small Businesses and their associations. Jobs with justice played a key role and i am grateful we have people here from jobs with justice and also the Grassroots Coalition in the bay view and the tenderloin and the support is significant and also spur, our city plan
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 has had recognition nationally as well as regionally. Promoting healthy food retailing promotes Good Nutrition and provide economic benefits such as supplying living wage job and the work is critical. The this is about addressing disparities and Economic Development and about jobs and entrepreneurship and revitalizing our commercial districts which these stores play a critical role. We need to keep our food dollars in the neighborhood and not leaking out and this goes a long way to that point. As
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 properly and so would i urge you to do everything and regardless of what you pass and i would urge you to do everything that he can to retain as much control over this situation as the sfpuc can get and that you put in rigid auditing power so that if smaoeg goes wrong you catch it fast and correct it fast and if necessary, pull back the responsibility of the commission of seeing this park to yourselves instead of rec and park that does not have a good record. I need five minutes to review the resolu
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 that will also be ape subject of these discussions and am i right . That is correct. The whole idea behind this is to bring our stake holders in the room and come up where they process where we can do solar on our own customers. And in a way that is ininclusive of all of the stake holder in all of the advocates and so we need to sit down and have that conversation. Prior to engaging in any of the other agencies, and the pec conversation and it is not a conversation and we are not going to reach ou