microwave, it is no nutrition or filling, if you build it they will come, if more are funded and more sros and that sort, were able to have a more fully equipped kitchen that to deliver the nutritional value and would i feed my kids and myself. and you are very limited with the either having the microwave or has to be supplied to you by other people, and i think that the process would be looking at it and cooking facilitis in sros thank you. >> the next few speakers, i will call the names of the next few speaksers, coline, from the california hunger action

coalition, and david harness, and kim and brewstre., tony from senior and disability action, and wendy as well. james from senior disability and peter from the immigrant legal resource center, nancy cross, don nunly from the aims project, coline from the cap pain for a better nutrition and mopsy from the center of health and uc beckerry public health >> next speaker? >> good morning, my name is alex and i am a senior disability action. and even though there are meal sites and home delivered meals for seniors and people with disabilities that demand that such meals as stated in the funding can provide. and in 2006, the cap between

the number of meals served and the number needed was between 6 and 9 million needs. annually. and the last three years, the budget for the home delivered meals has been cut and what needs to happen is that the money needs to be increased. and there is a long waiting list and it has to be paid with young people with disabilities and they tend to fall through the cracks, on the list of needs food is on top along with housing more money for food. >> thank you. >> next speaker.

>> with reference to the sros one of the things ha they are asking for is that there be cooking facility and many of the sros are being brought out by large non-profit organizations that are painting and making them look pretty but they are not redoing the wiring, so that each room could have a proper electric facilities and the least that they should do is make sure there is a community kitchen in every sro that is large enough in capacity that people can cook all day long at 3 or 4 different ovens some sros have community kitchens that are only opened part of the time, they should be opened all of the time. and sros in many cases could have community gardens on the roof if they would fix the

buildings properly. and these are some places where seniors and people with disabilities cannot really afford to live there, but it is the only housing they can find. and half of the income goes for their housing, and they need to have a place where they can have food. each new sro hire, and should spend the money to fix the wiring and put in the plumbing and so that the rooms could have a sink and a refridge and a small stove and then, the community kitchen for the big meals, every sro should have those. and i think that it is time that the city sets in and make sure that it does do that. >> thank you.

>> we have 600 people who are in the sros and they go down and they don't have kitchen and we have gone down the road and in the past year it is a longer road than we expected and trying to identify how we can bring them in. and what we found, is that the cost of doing the rewiring within the building, is pretty reasonable, and we are getting estimates of about $50,000 for building, and there is a way to do that and the cost of the appliances, in, and a microwave, which obviously is not the slow cooker.

and then a fridge, and that is the reasonable and then we can find a way to do it, and there is a big stumbling block is getting, the juice in to the building. and the transformers, generally in that set up and in that remember that and the cost of doing that, appears to be extremely expensive and that is something that we can take on and solve ourselves and so, we have talked with our public funding partners and hsa. and the community partners and interest in making it happen and we have absolutely have to get the spgand e involvement in order to deliver at a reasonable cost what is needed in order to make the changes that we are talking about today and we are motivated to do it and we will be motivated to do it, obviously in work with the food security task force, and so thanks again for the hearing today. >> thank you. >> and supervisor, yee. excuse me. and excuse me sir.

supervisor yee has a question? >> sure. and in the half i am just curious, since the pg&e supplies the electricity here, and have you asked pg&e to help out. >> you know, we have talked and we actually have begun the process of application and what we have found and i hope that i am correct in this, my understanding is that we have to do the application, first, before you go down the road to get those cost back and so we have initially, on this policy, where the initial application and that is going to lead to the further conversation, we have not yet asked them to deliver that product, to us without cost or at the reasonable cost that it should be. but we have begun the conversation to engage with them. thank you. >> thank you. >> and next speaker. >> hi, supervisors, thank you. my name is crystal and i work for meals on wheels.

i have the tough job of doing the intake and eligibility for meals on wheels and i just wanted to share, a quick story. and an example of one client. i took a phone call about two months ago of a client who first of all one question that we always ask is how are you now providing for yourself? how are you getting your food now? and when i asked this question, one lady answered that in the days before she called, she had gotten herself to the grocery store on muni how she gets everywhere, and after doing light shopping, was not able to carry, the two small bags of groceries on to the bus and so we literally and in order to

get herself home. so, she saw meals on wheels bus on the bus and gave us a call. and that is one of the hundreds of phone calls that i have had in the last year and a half that i have been at meals on wheels and one of thousands of stories of over 2,000 clients and 70 percent are living below the poverty line. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> if they have the equipment

to cook, often times, especially during the peek hours it is impossible to cook because the breakers are going off all of the time because 4 to 6:00 or 7:00 or 8:00, they are constantly going off and so there is no power, and this is during the wintertime, or in the summer times and forget it and this is almost impossible and so with this gentleman that was talking about it was talking about finding the money to rewire the sro and i think that is a fantastic idea because, again, people need to get the food. and they can't cook it because

the breakers are going off all of the time if they can even afford, the equipment to be able to cook it. and thank you very much. >> thank you. >> (inaudible)

>> mr. deganco? >> and good morning, supervisors and hello, everyone and my name is (inaudible) and

over for 30 years andvy been suffering with hunger. and because, not enough access to the needy, it is not working and they live up with the only food stamps and it is not enough to feed the whole family, especially while they are going up and they need more than enough to keep them going and i meant to say this because i know how hard it is and how expensive to live with three sisters. my experience in life is i was raised the three sisters, and that being how we have a limited that we want to feed and we cannot eat it. and experience that we had, really had nothing at all. and we run out and when we run out of money or food stamp and to support the lack of food in the resource, program. and the tender loin, thank you

so much. >> next speaker. thank you. >> my name is nancy croft and i have a one page hand out if the people want it and related to the subject of my talk, and i give the copies for the committee but also i have some other copies as the people that like it. >> and i am going to talk about something that has not been addressed here, that i think that they mitigate, and it is very difficulties in the meeting, and meeting the food needs of the people and that is, the policies of the city that are instituted in the practice that increase the welfare load and the people that are not food insecure needing services from the city that are very expensive. mental hel and this physical

health. how much money comes to the city compared to the welfare costs treating the people that are addicted and are encourage td in the sros and also in the city shelters. and by the policies, of exemptions of the talking about that subject matter to the client and then to the staff. and, they, the center for disease control, has had a report, that shows that it is $7 per pack of cigarettes, and that houses the economic cost and half of it is a lowered life ex-expectancy and the cost of raising human beings and the

life through certain, by ten or 20 years and now it is (inaudible) and i encourage, and in the smoking room in the shelters is the place that generate thises into the sros and you have no smoking and a smoke free building... >> thank you. >> moving from the shelter... >> thank you. >> thank you. >> every one that is used for staoet's distribution. >> okay. >> we can take the... thank you so much. >> maoes leave time for other speakers. >> my name is ryan and i am the

co-coordinator of the healthy corner stone foundation and the work in the tender loin is around food justice and i don't know if you have a chance to notice and the people's garden and that is across the civic center plaza and i have organized it to take on the roof top gardens because that is a real way to address the security and getting the people to grow their own food and becoming aware of that system. >> and currently also trying to work to establish in other people's garden in the south of market neighborhood because it has been a difficult process working through the city agencies and i really think that that is something that we need to support further in the city itself and the city needs to encourage the development and not the individual plot gardens and i am aware that supervisor avalos along with the community groups is trying to do a similar thing and running into the similar barriers even the elected officials. i agree to the issue in the food security in the tender loin and i phrase it around the

access and the education and knowing what to do with the food once you get it and the ability to actually cook it and store it and prepare that food. but i would like to take it a step further and put on the conversation a little bit more and pose to the question of trying to answer how can you make it economically viable, if we are talking about the low income communitis that have the real high concentrations of poverty, such as the tender loin and 50 percent, and create the jobs around accessing the healthy food and give the folks the food and the opportunities to purchase the food and the sources and the example of that is the healthy corner store and that is going to expand to a meat market and going to supply the meat, and going to run that counter and i think that a lot of opportunity and we need to begin how to answer that and how can we answer that question. >> tell low, thanks for having

me here today, my name is moxy and i am a physician in internal medicine in oakland and i am a university of utah public health student and i am here today because i feel concerned as you do, i see patients in the er often, about half of the time the first thing they ask me for is if they can have some food and the cafeteria is still open. and i recently saw a patient who had a heart rhythm problem that is frequently fatal, he in fact, was resuscitated in the passed and had passed away and been brought back to life with the cpr and the first thing that he asked me and he interrupted me is that he was really hungry could he have some food. one of the things that i think is really important about these issues is that we don't get trapped in the current structures and in the economic systems that have not served the needs of the communities and i think that one of the most important things that we can do is to organize the communities to feed themselves and meaning what we can do is

start the food clubs to connect the communities with farmers, and we could also use these systems to train the unemployed people in running the food system which gives them job experience, grocery stores are vital and added the value for processed foods, but for one of the unprocessed foods is the avenues from farmers. if anyone wants to follow i have a blog that is on word press called just food and water. thanks so much. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you for the great work. >> thank you. >> so i am rebecca and i am the chair of the california home owner action coalition and i also work at saint anthonies and it is made of non-profit organizations through, in the community members throughout the state, that are concerned about hunger and working, on the legislative and policy solution to help to end the

hunger in california. and i wanted to address one of the things that kind of came up as a question. and after the presentation. and related to the low participation in cal fresh, in the state of california. and why that is happening, and one of the reasons why, is that the state of california has opted in to put a lot of administrative barriers in place for people who are maybe eligible for cal fresh and want to apply or in terms of staying in the program and we have done a lot of things over the years to try to help alleviate that from implementing automatic intercounty transfer of benefits so that you don't have to apply to start from scratch and getting rid of the finger imaging requirements in order to get the cal fresh you would have to have your finger bio

metrickly scanned and that is no longer a requirement because of the legislative work that we have done, we have moved from the monthly reporting to quarterly reporting to six months reporting. >> it is an insult or a term, and you remember that president obama is being part of a food stamp president, and so our community should be supporting folks and getting rid of that stigma and shame and supporting cal fresh. >> thank you. >> and the next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors, kim and i am a member of the local homeless board and clearly to create the facility

to reheat and fridge and store the food in the sros is going to require creating a partnership with the owners themselves and pg&e and other members of the infrainstruct and so i have four recommendations to that end. and one, is to creatively leverage the existing state and federal funding that might be used to redo the wire and to get the actual facilitis in the sros i know that two got this or these facilitis in for no cost to the owner. and my second suggestion is to work with the colleagues in abdomening sacramento. and to create other incentives for other sro s and to buy into them and to become attracted to them. and finally when there is a transfer of the property for the new owner to look at the

legislation and the requirements, and when that property transfer takes place. but there might be some code up grades that could require. i would like to have access to cal fresh, thank you. >> we can make this more for

the healthy eating and from time-to-time we go out to the public and to the community, and we demonstrate the healthy eating. and and i represent food justice leaders too. and where we have to help stores sell more healthier foods, thank you. >> thank you,... >> next speaker? >> good afternoon supervisors and good afternoon, and i am (inaudible) six months ago, and so i work under the iss in the home support and in the program,

we cannot meet the needs and so that increases our compensation and so that it could be quality and so to our clients, and above all, the take this opportunity to thank in the help of the people to thank all of you who give the support. and in the philippines, thank you. and god bless us. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> hi, supervisors, thank you

for having this hearing and addressing this important issue, and james, senior disability action, a few years ago, my son and i were driving in the car, on the great highway, and they were talking about something. i was not listening, he was, and my son asked me, hey, what does it mean, scarcity is a myth? and i said, well, it means that there is a lot of stuff to go around and there is enough to go around. even here in san francisco we are experiencing a certain, social poverty. and it is a poverty of distribution. and not only resources but also of kind of caring about one another. and in many ways, the issue of hunger and the issue of these social problems are larger than the scope of any legislation that could be addressed although, we fully support the

recommendation and think that the food access needs to be increased and it is part of a larger struggle really, and it is part of a larger struggle to increase the community access to things and that is why i want to say, thank you for all of the good work and everybody coming here to speak, it is bigger than this, we need to get together and start fighting seriously. >> thank you. >> before i wanted to say, miss janet is going to speak on behalf of jd myers. he had to leave. >> supervisors, (inaudible) and

even though my english is not so good, but this country is very rich, and there are so many people who are rich. but, what i have seen in the streets, these helpless people, all of these people have got... and officially, i and i saw, the... and the old men, lying on the streets. and here doing nothing, and there are just moving there, and they are (inaudible) and in fact the it is the embarrassment. although they are very poor and they will... it will be careful

for his, or her part. (inaudible). >> i am going to call one more card, it is a sustainable food system advocate and the leader in the food justice. >> my name is