Like they were showing on the slide. It is true over 20 we cannot for the eligibility we dont qualify. I try to get whatever i can with the program for food bags every week. Thank god there is emergency food bags in other places. Sometimes it is hard for me because i have both of my children and i cannot get on the bus as well with that. I have lost some opportunities of getting food boxes because i cannot get on the bus with both of them and my food. I have lost that. Sorry about that. With rent, too, hopefully you guys can help us out. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you both. Next speaker. Good morning. I lead policy an and advocacy fr the San FranciscoMarin Food Bank. Thank you for calling this hearing today. This is deer to our house for 35 years. Thank you for elevating this with the board of supervisor. Thank you to paula for the incredible presentation. I am a member of the Food Security task force. The data is close to my heart. Thank you also to the previous speakers who shared their stories. I want to elevate the fact we could not do what we do without partners like homeless prenatal. They bring so much to the community and help us reach out beyond what we can do with our organization. We have in the past been able to innovate with other populations. We started college pant trees, start home delivered groceries. Calling attention is a great call of action to think about how to better serve these people. Thank you so much for your time. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors. I was comes to stand up here to let you know i was born in district five and raised in district 10 and raised my children in district 10. I live in district five. I was a child of a mother Food Insecurity. I will never forget the trauma of trying to see her survive in San Francisco and not make enough money. I will never forget what it was like to raise my children in district 10 trying to survive on the little subsistence i was provided until i was able to do better. I have worked with pregnant persons from 13 to 45. I have witnessed Food Insecurity, the trauma and stress of not being able to provide for your children. I am 44. It is time to make a change. It is time to invest in programs providing support to pregnant parents persons in the city to not only provide it in declarations but also funding. They need funding to be able to hire the people they need for the capacity to fill now because of the income inequality in the city. Thank you for raising this issue. It is very important that we address this because it does have an impact on the outcomes of your most vulnerable residents. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am amanda. I am a mother of two. It has been extremely stressful, to say the least. I have no food. I would be in the position to not have enough money to buy food for my kids on top of everything else. In discussing with homeless prenatal we Found Solutions to be done. The main thing is being able to grow our own food. If we can come up with funding, i dont know what can be done, it would help with Mental Health as well. Not being able to provide for your children causes depression, anxiety and all of the above. I know as a mom i am going through those things i can only imagine those facing immigration and poverty and if we can get out and grow our own food that can cut some of the disparities, you know, having the opportunity to do for yourself. You can change that to help someone else. It is a giving back situation. I work for a nonprofit garden. I know how been official it can be. That is in the city of richmond. If it can come to the city of San Francisco in oakland, that would be a blessing. It is hard. It is very challenging to just get by. On top of the represent and everything else. Yes, please, figure out something to be done for our moms because it is hard. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I am thompson. We are organizations for the visitation rally. We conduct focus groups with women and young ladies. I am emotional. As a participant in the Homeless Program they are the most Supportive Team i have been since i have been a mom. I have a one andahalfyearold son that was preterm due to no support and financial leap not having it to get by and grow him and my son having the resources and transportation to do so. I can just say i am glad this whole idea is being discussed. The services are needed. I volunteer at the food bank and hear about people not having enough food. The stuff is old, rotten, no good, this and that. People are given potatoes and no protein. I am anemic. I understand. Whatever helps that you can put in play and get support that we need, please do it. I am in sunnydale and you know we need the help. That is all i have to say. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, supervisors for holding this hearing today. I am with the interim executive director at first life San Francisco. I want to highlight the opportunity we have here in the early years. Research has been presented about Early Brain Development during the first 1,000 days and School Readiness and the impact hunger has and the lifelong ability to learn. I would encourage you as we think about this opportunity and we look to the Solutions Available to us, that you look to the systems that we already have in place. We have existing programs where families already are where they feel comfortable, safe, secure. Our cities, Family ResourceCenter Initiative currently administrators 1400 bags of food per week, approximately 64,000 food bags each year. What i want to say about what our Family Resource centers do. It is beyond the food they administer. They take this opportunity with families to bolster the familys overall wellbeing. They focus on parentchild relationships, they focus on helping provide families a pathway out of poverty. The Resource Centers understand it is truly about not a safety net but security for family ifs. I would just add this service is currently at capacity and unfunded. It relies on volunteers, on existing staff pulling extra hours, on Current Space that is at capacity and so as you look and think about solutions know we have more information about this, more research, more studies and we are eager to partner with you. Thank you. Commissioner walton congratt ions. What is the gap if you had an amount . If you could get that information . The amount what we are currently doing is an in kind service is between 300 and 400,000. It provides a little bit of cushion, but we know that many of these food pantries also have await list and the capacity we have is not enough. You can imagine beyond that would be critical to be able to reach the middle income families. It talked about eligibility requirements we reach the middle income families. Commissioner walton state funding is going down . Yes and first five is one of the major funders of Family Resource centers for 12 years. Supervisor stefani are you in touch with the Homeless Prenatal Program on this . Homeless prenatal is a strong funded Family Resource centers. Supervisor stefani in light of the barriers you heard today, if you can follow up with my office in terms what you think the Family Resource centers can be doing to help address the transportation issue. A lot of people may not be able to get to the Family Resource center. The gap supervisor walton talked about in terms of funding to let us know what we can do. There are many different programs that get to this issue. That information would be helpful to us. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am the executive director of the founders for veggies. I also work for the center for vulnerable populations. We specialize in areas where there is limited access to healthy food and just when folks dont have enough money for food. In San Francisco we have an affordability crisis where housing eats first. Food costs are 23 higher than national average. We issue fruit and vegetable vouchers through the Community Organizations and clin hillary clinics. We absolutely have seen positive results from these programs improving Food Security, health but really we help drive the supply of fruits and vegetables to the neighborhood. I am surgin urging you to suppot market match at the farmers market. They work. They are very good. We have research that we also are looking at the fact that our Voucher Program can help decrease the risk of preterm birth. Huge outcomes for a small contribution. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I am the omi Family ResourceCenter Director in District Eleven urban services ymca and proud native of district 10 born and raised. Our food pantry feeds 250 families per week. They are an essential part of the Food Security for the folks in the omi neighborhood. We know the Services Helps families to live and survive in San Francisco. We provide access to quality newspaper trish us food and it is fundamental to our existence. We are so important in addition to what has already been stated. With modest Additional Resources they could increase food to families in marginal situations. We work with immigrant families. The new rule will impact immigration eligibility. This should not be so. The one thing for sure. The clients come in, we may not understand each other due to language differences. One thing that is universal we all need to be fed and access to healthy food. I want to surge you to increase funding for families within San Francisco. It is not only the smart thing to do, it is our responsibility to make sure no one goes hungry in San Francisco. For the story, i understand that it is not always easy for families to afford our food. I was able to walk into our local liquor store because that is all we had in district 10, and i now know enough to bypass the chips and snacks for my kids. Best thing i could find were two juices for two of my children. Each bottle cost me 5. The capri sons were two for 1. Supervisor mandelman next speaker. Thank you for your attention and time to this matter. I am seth crawford, Branch Operation officer foss the y was officer for the ynca. We serve over 450 people at our food pantry. This is money that is not within the budget but money we feel is important for our community. There is a waiting list of over 200 families that we cannot get to because of capacity and because of lack of opportunity for funding to be able to get more food from the food bank to support these families. One comes in at 9 00 with single mother with three kids and we have emergency food drop in where she comes in every day to get food. We talk about how she sustains herself. Mother of three working parttime. The local corner store where she can buy the plastic bags of food that you warm up in the microwave are cheaper than going to mcdonalds to get food off the dollar menu. If we dont do something now we will see something in the future. Thank you for your time and encouragement. Supervisor mandelman next speaker. I am the director of family connections. We have two Family Resource centers. We serve 100 low income families each year. We dont have a food pantry. I am grateful for our partners. A lot of families spoke about the impact. It is not just food. Food is the baseline for family and economic success. You have the Resource Centers. There are 25 Family Resource centers. They are more accessible. We need to invest in this system that exists. Look at the people they serve. They live in the neighborhood of the people they serve. It is an amazing system. We dont need to create the wheeling. We need to make it better. I want to say in this Political Climate a lot of families dont feel safe going to neighborhood resources. It is not just the right thing but the smart thing to do and most economically sound thing to do for the city. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. Thank you for having me. I am the executive director of sister web. I stood before you guys about a year ago in city hall. We basically launched our program. We are a year in. I will tell you about my personal and professional experience with Food Insecurity. I am a single parent. I basically raised my daughter in an a low income environment. Depending on the food stamps or medical, it was a struggle. I was frustrated how simple things threw off my finances. I would not have enough to buy food. We had to make the best of whatever budget we had. It was never enough. The trauma it caused because of that. This led me to become the director of sister web. I work with families removed from my situation, and i want to make sure i bring before you to encourage you when they are funding and incentives available i over heard a few people talk about utilizing community gardens. There are all types of unique approaches. I think we have Resources Available in our communities. If we are not using the resources, they go to waste. Thank you so much. Supervisor mandelman next speaker. Good morning. As a single mother in bayview i know how difficult it is for low income families and expecting mothers to have access and afford healthy food. It is extremely hard to live on a fixed income and have to pay for convenience. The options we have are over priced. I am here today on behalf of the coalition requesting more fresh affordable food resources in our community. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. I am andrea. I am here on behalf of the coalition as well. As a Community Member and mother in this community to a child who has . Developmental issues. Diet is essential to her growth. Especially when she goes to school. For me i am here to ask that there are more resources to help the community organization. What they are doing with your fresh fruits and like the woman said before. That is what i am here for. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. If there are any speakers in the overflow room who wants to speak, you probably should come over now. Thank you so much for the hearing today. It is really a critical issue. I have been working with homeless pregnant women and poor families for 30 years now. Until they asked me to pull together working on food issues did i realize the extent of Food Insecurity. We heard today the importance of preventing preterm bit and Mental Illness in africanamerican women and immigrant women, it is essential to have proper nutrition. We have a food pantry with 1500pound of Fresh Produce from the food bank once a week. It is gone the day we get it. I dont want to repeat anything people said. I want to say in my closing statement i would like to say that the prevalence of Food Insecurity in one of the nations wealthiest cities is unacceptable, and i believe we can do something about it. In 2007, San Francisco decided it was unacceptable our struggling neighbors didnt have healthcare so we created healthy San Francisco, a coordinated system of care for the uninsured. Why can we not create a coordinated system of care including healthy and ample food for all. I urge all of us to recognize Food Insecurity is a continuum of healthcare and it is an issue we can solve by working together. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. [speaking foreign language] hello everyone. I am from district 11. I also the participant from the ymca. I want to say every week i have to go to the food bank to get the food i need. That is really important for our seniors. I am hoping you can guarantee the food quality and quantity distributed food for us. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman next speaker, please. Hello. I am with the ymca. Speaking foreign language]. Hello. I am also from the ymca. The issue that i want to raise is that every week i also want to get my food from the food bank, and the food i get is vegetables, eggs and fruits. I want to say that it is food that is rotten, do not distribute to us. Thank you. Supervisor stefani are there any other speakers for Public Comment on the hearing . Anyone in the overflow room . If afternoon. Good afternoon, i am chair of the Food Task Force and meals on wheels. I want to say lets do more of this. Calling this hearing is critical. Having the task force and city departments and members of the Community Coming back for a new resolution, look at the Strategic Plan and bring together the players and do a shared measurement tool at the city wide level . We know the task force is working since 2005. This is where we want to elevate it at the city level with the mayor and board of supervisors and the Controllers Office so thank you. Supervisor stefani any other