Earned the highest level of achievement with four stars in the program. Not only has oaklands transformation led to benefit for students, the local economy and the environment, but theyve done this while reducing per meal costs. Our partners at friends of the earth documented over this two years, student participation and satisfaction in the School Meals Program increased. Just to conclude, as we build more and more purchasing power from cities and School Districts, were not only leveraging the buying power, but Building Collective voice and power of local coalitions and local leaders to improve our food system on a large scale. San Francisco City and county has an extraordinary opportunity to once again lead the way, by becoming the first city in the county to develop the program. Now wed like to introduce lauren, product manager of Student Nutrition Services at the San FranciscoUnified School District who will be presenting on the experience with adopting and implementing their good Food Purchasing policy. Good morning, commissioners, im the project manager with San FranciscoUnified School District future dining experience. Its my pleasure to come and present to you on our experience so far with the adoption of the good Food Purchasing policy. I have actually had the opportunity to be working on the implementation and integration into the district. And ill present to you on where we are and then open it up for questions if you have any. I wanted to start the presentation to give you a sense of who Student Nutrition Services is and why we elected to adopt the good food of purchasing policy. Its a system that provides access to and engages all students in eating fresh, health, food. Our mission is that we nourish our students with quality food and strengthen the school food ecosystem. Thinking about all five of each one of our values and how they align directly with our commitment with the good Food Purchasing policy and our commitment to our students, our community and the environment. So in spring of 2016, the board of education passed a resolution to adopt the good foods purchasing policy, making us only the School District in the nation to adopt the policy. Local economies, valued workforce, health and wellbeing of the students align directly with the efforts that student nutrition is hoping to align with the way that Student Nutrition Services operates daily. Finding a policy not only formalizes the commitment to the kids, to the community and the environment, but it provides access to partnerships nationwide. In addition it holds us accountable for our actions to make sure were meeting the goals were setting and the standards were saturday setting setting four ourselves. We spend 12 million annually, making us the largest restaurant in San Francisco. This presents a huge opportunity for impact, internally and externally throughout San Francisco and beyond. So just to give you a sense of what that looks like. We operate we serve almost 7 million meals annually, 33,000 meals per day. This looks like 85 of the meals come that are prepared offsite by a different vendor and brought in and the other 15 on made onsite. What that means is that is four different contracts and food coming from a lot of different sources. But it also presents four different opportunities to ensure were working with the vendors to provide high quality food at a price we can afford. What this means, were working on the process for the preferred meals and also for the groceries and were working on how do we integrate in language around good food and Higher Quality standards in such a way that encourages and requests that our proposers integrate and demonstrate a commitment to being willing to meet Higher Standards than they were . And its not meaning theyre asking to theyre doing it now, but theyre willing to work with us to do it and get us at the price levels they can promise us. We also are in the process of doing the baseline analysis. Were in the finalizing stages of this. And weve been doing it thanks to the center for good Food Purchasing. It is a long process. It has taken a long time. We have food coming from a lot of sources. It takes a long time to collect and analyze. And then were working with them, a lot of the baselines are based on third party verification, so were working on how to interpret that. But what it really means its allowing us to dive deep and see where is our food coming from and where are the easy opportunities we have potential for big impact and change . So, we are kind of in this busy beginning phase, integrating into the proposals. Were also working with the baseline. But so far, weve already had a lot of impressive impact. The first one the partnerships. Amazing partnership with the good Food Purchasing, theyve been a valuable resource, not just the help theyve provided, but connecting us to other organizations nationwide. Were learning that were able to leverage as a large School District to leverage our power to encourage our vendors to make changes and provide commitments to us. And that we see this as an opportunity for kind of a start of a movement. Were the second one and that is the opportunity for change. And that the more people that join on, the more people that will be aware of it and the more companies will start to make the commitment. Thank you very much. Supervisor ronen thank you. Any questions . None. Ok. Great. So thank you. Next id like to introduce womens policy director at the department of status of women who will be presenting on the Human Trafficking task force and exploring good food policy. Thank you for calling this hearing. I wanted to connect the dot and show how it fits in other initiatives in the city and to combat Human Trafficking. The Department Staffs to improve the response to Human Trafficking. We have two dozen departments and organizations that participate in the efforts. About a year ago, we identified one of the ways we could better address Human Trafficking and labor trafficking, was to look at our purchasing power and how we as San Francisco could be looking at trafficking that was happening in the supply chain of goods and services. When we look at the industries identified in the United States as being complicit in Human Trafficking, the food is right up there. Fishing, both overseas, there has been a lot of coverage and publicized case where fishermen were here in the bay trafficking and poultry processing. So we realize that San Francisco purchases food in its jails and hospitals and leveraging our purchasing power to address Human Trafficking in the Food Supply Chain would be an Excellent Way to try and make sure that our dollars are not somehow complicit in Human Trafficking. So this ties in with the good Food Purchasing policy and their valued workforce component of the project. So were really supportive of the initiative and really hope that San Francisco can put its money where its mouth is in terms of making our dollars support our values. I want to thank a lot of the members from the mayor task force to provide public comment. I want to thank you and take any questions. Supervisor ronen any questions . None. Thank you very much. Next, id like to introduce chief operating officer for zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, the department of Public Health, to discuss the work theyre doing around healthy and Sustainable Food and how the good Food Purchasing might be part of that work. Good morning, service, im the chief operating officer of San Francisco general and ill be giving an overview of how Public Health goes across the organization. As you know, we have two hospitals. All together, we serve 6,000 meals a day and 2 million meals a year. Food is 6. 5 million and supplies and materials 8. 8 million. We partner with a Group Purchasing organization used for hospital items and get the best price to be stewards of the city. So i want to go over accomplishments weve achieved in the past year. We believe in providing patients and community with healthy and Sustainable Food options. In the past few years, weve served locally grown and seasonal produce and hope to move in a direction in laguna, all local produce is served to patients. The calf sorry, if you could hold on. Is there a problem with supervisor ronen sorry about that, here we go. Thanks. Would you like me to start over . Supervisor ronen no, no, no. Please continue. Overall our cafeterias have reduced sodium, frying options. Our meals offer more fresh fruits and vegetables and baked rather than fried foods. Some challenges, currently, healthy our hospital is allowed to get better pricing due to the pricing power. The cost is still high for organic and antibioticfree items. There are limited options for products to choose from through the gpo, including meats that are antibioticfree. There is not enough demand at the patient level for foods and there is not enough demand from viv ant. Im going to introduce hello, thank you for having us. To pick up where he left off. Some of the next steps weve been looking at, laguna honda, are increasing healthy food options. Developing standards around purchasing more sustainable local organic whole foods. Weve been evaluating a couple of different vendors for cagefree eggs and looking at aeb use in animals. Weve been looking at reducing the use of canned goods and frozen vegetables for fresh. Enhancing our waste program. Limiting gpos in the foods we serve. And exploring options for organic milk and dairy. Then specific to good Food Purchasing, we have been working with them on providing information for our baseline report. It is challenging sometimes with u. S. Foods identifying where the source of the food actually comes from. There are criteria that they disturbed earlier closely aaligns with our vision. Some of the benefits we see in adopting the good Food Purchasing program would be that help with the baseline report and understanding what were currently doing. Best practices in moving forward. And as mentioned, some of those connections to other organizations working on the same initiatives. Some of the challenges weve had in terms of obtaining that data from u. S. Foods, where the food is sourced, the cost and availability of some of the products, some of the more sustainable organic products would have a cost for our department. And then just the contract and vendor process in terms of the city process and working through that to maybe open up to alternate vendors or having other contracts that would allow us to purchase those products. Thats all. Thank you. Supervisor rone supervisor ronen thank you very much. Supervisor fewer i would like to introduce paul from the Sheriffs Department, how good Food Purchasing might be part of their work. Good morning, supervisors, thank you for having us here today to talk about this great program. I handed out a few information pieces there and im not sure if i can put that on there. Ill be brief. I wanted to give you overview of the food service in the jail system. We wefsh 14 both to the incarcerated and Staff Members throughout the 24hour period. Air mark is our current provider. We have one in the hall of justice and the other is out at county jail 5. San bruno. We produce two hot meals and one cold meal. There are numerous diet plans throughout the system. To include such plans as kosher, vegan. A variety of options for people to have. Provided meals for them. We also have a contracted dietician who provides support every six months to terms of our practices. And what was really great about hearing about good Food Purchasing program and being able to connect with them, is the fact that we had our rsp process coming up for the Food Service Provider and as a result of the collaboration and meetings with them that started may of last year, we were able to incorporate the language in the rsp that is going on as we speak. So by the end of this cycle, starting in july of 2018, we should have in place a program where we hold people to what is called the level 1 star level standard of good Food Purchasing. And in our rsp language we hold them to making sure they complete a Baseline Assessment within the first 12 months of the contracted period to meet the goals. It is also fortunate because it matches the values of the department. We have a keen interest in making sure people are well fed in our system in order to make sure theyre healthy and food is of interest to everybody, especially when you dont have the ability to go out to a different restaurant or have a choice in what meals you actually eat. We have an interest in making sure we provide the best meals possible. Do you have any questions . I do. Supervisor fewer it seems as though the Sheriffs Department has adopted it . Yes. Oh good. With with the help of people in the room, we were able to get the ball started last year for the rfp process this year. We were fortunate. Supervisor fewer any questions . Supervisor ronen im wonder federal governme if across the departments, you work on purchasing policies. I know that information is hard to get. Rather than duplicating that work, if youre communicating with each other to figure out i mean this question is for any of you to answer, but it seems like it would make a lot of sense. I am aware at the Department Head level because we have many collaborations with the department of Public Health. I know that they have spoken to the sheriff about the fact were engaged in the program right now and she was interested in the progresses we had made through the Department Heads. Thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. Supervisor fewer, if youre thinking of putting structure in place. Supervisor fewer right, not duplicating. Supervisor ronen lets open up for public comment. Each speaker will have two minutes. I have speaker cards here that ill call out. Doug black, sonya, ruth robinson, nelson berry iii, mayor steiner, marcy coburn, juliet simms and then ill call more names after that. First speaker. Hello, good morning, thank you for featuring this policy. Im mary steiner the president of the United Nations association San Francisco chapter. Im here also as a member of the San Francisco collaborative against Human Trafficking and a member of the Mayors Task Force against Human Trafficking. I was stunned when i attended the recent San Francisco collaborative against Human Trafficking conference about industrys impacted by Human Trafficking, how business and community are fighting back. One of the presentations was from a member of the Teamsters Union and they routinely evaluate the conditions of farm workers. They had evaluated taylor farms in salinas and it was a passing grade and then decided to investigate taylor farms in tracy. They discovered pregnant women washing these organic greens, baby greens in chlorine and unprotected. And the motel was doing sex trafficking. The owner was men dosa. So here are the packages of organic baby greens that i see on the grocery shelves, thinking this must be pure and wonderful. We need to take a closer look again about what our food sources are and work with labor as well. Thank you so much. Good morning, seniors, im nelson berry im on the United Nations board, im the chair fort global goals of Sustainable Development, i want to say how excited i am about this proposal. Its really another example of how San Francisco is taking the leadership position in so many areas. And i understand tomorrow the city is going to be talking about divesting 450 million from fossil fuel, so the momentum is moving in a sustainable direction. When i look at the good Food Purchasing program values, local economies, environmental sustainability, i can assure that they fall in direct alignment with can i