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Community who have been involved in this process throughout the neighborhood including the valencia corridor, 24th street, the mission corridor, people from all over the neighborhood have commented, and lastly once again thank nadal from my office and supervisor wiener and your staff for your work. Thank you supervisor campos and also i had a few remarks. Im actually very excited that were here today with this legislation. It has been years over due, and i think im going to have some real positive changes for the mission. Shortly after i took Office Supervisor kim and i started tag teaming on ...

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 throu...

In the language of your bill supervisor mar that part of the redesign of the store if at all possible take that into consideration and i dont know if that has been talked about but i think its extremely important because theyre part of our population, part of the people in San Francisco, and i think they deserve that type of recognition that they should be able to go into a small store, Corner Store Market and be able to get into some milk and bread, whatever without asking for someones help. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is fred and a food leader justice. I have ...

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 othe...

Organizer with food justice and doing some of the management in the coalition and i would like to applaud you supervisors and doing this work and sets base and Community Work having a positive impact and providing resources to really expand the programs. In the healther Food Coalition started a year ago and we had a convening and residents identified the desire to turn the Corner Stores that tend to have negative impact into something positive and we got a coalition from the meeting and met with neighbors that showed a desire to have healthy food access in the neighborhood. We found through th...