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You are eligible, many people are not enrolled and so we dont want that to be a barrier and we could use the existing networks, such as Health Providers and School Counselors and certainly or other agencies like dos and hsa, we want to expand this beyond the farmers, and beyond Farmers Market as much as that provides, an accident source of food in our city. But we want to include the retail as well. We then drive the activity into the community and it benefits all, creating it. 19,000 do not have kitchens and which means that these people have no ability, relatively to little or no ability to ...

Have the report. I want to note for the record that we have been joined by scott weiner. And the second challenge around the Food Resources is the fact that again, cal fresh which is the Food Stamp Program is highly effective but it is under enrolled as a state of cal, we actually ranked last in the country, in terms of participation in this program. The local food stamps has been growing over the past years. And the growth is pretty phenomenal. Now as you all probably heard in the media, there was a cut to the food stamp benefit levels at the end of october. And that was as a result of the st...

And finally you can see that the big white slides there and this is roughly a third of all of the meals, that is needed for the low income population have no identifiable resource. And that does not mean that the people cannot eat those meals, but it does enable to say, that we are a long way from meeting the needs of the low income in our city. And when you total up, to the actual number of meals and what you see, and i am sorry on property jeks is the total missing meals is a total of 74 million meals every single year in San Francisco. So can i just ask you, and thank you so much for cheeri...

Will be a difficulty for the people to be food secure with the healthy diets and the need is just too great and as a community, if we are serious about addressing the Food Security we have to address this gap. It will be available through the providers and distributed to a broader set of people, not everybody is eligible and if you are eligible, many people are not enrolled and so we dont want that to be a barrier and we could use the existing networks, such as Health Providers and School Counselors and certainly or other agencies like dos and hsa, we want to expand this beyond the farmers, an...

All of those have a very similar nexus reaching the population of the city. After being established for a few years, the office is really has worked in three key areas. Its a Policies Office through programs like our Community Ambassadors program and we do grant making around i am grant immigration initiatives. Thats a snapshot of the offices. The Community Ambassadors is one of our premier programs that started in 2010. Just some background on the program. It started in the bayview on the 10th supervise real district in addition to conflict happening at that time. There were several very high...