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Noted. Thank you. Commissioner ow. Yes, i want to congratulate the staff as picking the Hunters Point as the Pilot Project for gardening but hopefully when more funding is coming in i hope that you will spread out the good gardening to other neighborhoods. [inaudible] thank you. Any other comments or questions from the commission . Any comments or questions from the public . Just one. Its not going just to Hunters Point. Its actually in the western edition. So there is more than one spot . Correct. There are three. Oh three. The money is going. Very good. Thank you. Any other comments or quest...

Snaped so its all one pot of money that we will now be reporting to the state on as one pot of money with three categories so for reporting requirements through our funder were going to have to report on the overarching snaped money with the three programs, nutrition education, gardening and thai chi. I would imagine there are some communities where the snaped is going to one so its not confusing but to have this laid out and who the funder is and how were getting the money and the overarching objectives and why we have the one memo and detail of each and outcomes and measurements split apart....

Is to your overall benefit unless you think otherwise and the purpose is eliminate the amount of paper you have to read when approving multiple contracts for essentially the same service and we leave it up to the staff and anne as well to explain to you the nuisances or differences between the vendors and theyre collective approach, but essentially its to make it easier and minimize the reading you have to do in order to prepare for the job you have to do. Thank you. Thank you for that. I guess my only follow up question. In this case these are two stellar providers with tremendous reputations...

Implementing the programs we hope to reduce the prevalence of obesity and on set of chronic diseases for these low income population. Were able to accomplish these by educating and by providing direct Nutrition Education and providing support to the participants with increased access to healthy foods, reducing the consumption of beverages that are high in sugar content, so healthier beverages and also increasing physical activity, and also improving the Food Resource management skills of these participants. So based on the states and also the countys profile for snaped participants as well as ...

Or not it leads to reduced rates increased customers or we then take the savings, if you will that center money into local bills; right . I mean, thats the design today. So todays design assumes any load this is contributed theyll will be margin to contribute to the rates but on the default product prides are really low and the supply costs effective we could go 50 percent renewal for that product or even higher in the commission deserves to do that but your pointing out we could stay at 50 have additional contributions to march because of the supplies are lower and take that margin and invest...