involvement in the task force. >> thank you. i just want to know i know this is important stuff. i want to make sure if we don't lose the quorum and we can move it forward. i want to make sure all of the information is provided. >> i am heather and senior planner for the department of children and families. i will give a quick overview of the meals and the importance of them and a scope of san francisco so we're really talking about after school snack and supper and during the school year and then the other section is summer, and the lunches and snacks provided during that time. i want to make it clear in san francisco we have a different sponsors that provide the meals, and there's a handful of cbos we're working on connecting with so the importance of these meals

the cdc said it perfectly in the sense that food and hunger insecurity can affect us in many ways. we know what happens when we don't eat we drop off with attention and get cranky sometimes so the next point in importance really revolves about relieving family stress and less money out of the pocket providing the meals and not having to hurry to get food on the table and they know that the children are fed. and then also federal and state funding is available for child nutrition and currently in san francisco a majority of what we're talking about today is leveraging those funds to maximize local dollars. this last point of importance really does -- it's kind of a story. i was talking to the

director for columbia park of boys and girls club and he wanted to switch from snack to a summer meal provided and i was asking him why and he stated over a period of time that since october he had tracked the number of incidences that occurred -- like behavior incidences and out of all of them 95% of those students said they were hungry and so he really looked into that deeper and just learning that 50% of them had not eaten since 730 in the morning and a majority wanted something when they got there and we're talking about 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon. a scope of san francisco and a big picture and 72,000 students -- youth living in san francisco from 5-7 and 57,000 attend u san francisco unified school

district and we're looking at the meals we want to provide we want to reach that number but go beyond that to those in need and want so a quick overview we're looking at all of the handful of cbos in the city that are providing meals but from what we know there are 6500 snacks provided on a daily basis and during the summertime about 8500 lunches provided so i'm going to step back and now talk about -- forward and talk about efforts towards just summer meals. we do receive a federal reimbursement and that helps cover the cost of meal delivery, snacks, staff and outreach. we do 5200 lurchs a day and this is a big piece i want to clarify is that it's open sites, that the

majority are open sites which means any student can eat the lunch and leave. there is no paperwork, no enrollment that is provided and this is a big piece i think this is a misconception happening. they can provide services to 85 different sites and we can serve more youth at those sites, just not more sites at this point, and we had for summer twraw 201-4147 applications which means there are many sites we can't provide support to and that comes under work with collaboration with other agencies in san francisco we're trying to figure out where we can expand and support the other 62. and then really outreach efforts to increase the number of families and students know that this is an opportunity to receive a meal. we do a brochure with all of the sites available every year and this

year we want to include san francisco unified school district its and others in san francisco and post on usf kids.org. how can you help increase the number? really just similar to what i just said about helping us distribute the brochures and the fliers and informally or in speeches encouraging the attendance at the sites and there say know banner with free meals and you know that any student can receive a meal and all of the sites are on the website so now i want to hand it over to my colleague talks about san francisco unified school district could we get a map of the 85 sites to make sure that all neighborhoods are served and it's equitable and out of the applications knowing which

sites were not approved and is there a need to expand the number of sites so all neighborhoods could be served and how much would that cost as well? that would be helpful for us. >> definitely. >> thank you. good afternoon supervisors. i am building on that about the sites we're actually working -- the district -- sorry, this is orlaa keep with the san francisco unified school district and we're lucky to have the partnerships and support we have and we have been talking how we can look at the list of schools and think about ways the district can increase the number of sites so we will collectively report back to you on. i wanted to say i remember when commissioner yee and supervisor mar were on the board and you authored a resolution about immigrant rights and i know earlier in the conversation there was a discussion how we can make sure students aren't denied and the district doesn't

inquiry or deny based on status. >> he was there too. >> yes and the general counsel i believe, so the district is the largest public food program in the city of san francisco. we serve about 33,000 meals and snacks daily and hoping to increase that through various efforts. one of the efforts is transitioning away from the snack program. we currently serve through excel and our early education schools about students in after school programs, about 6,000 students receive snacks and we want to move that to the supper program and we've started already. we piloted at three schools. we plan to roll it out at 11 more schools before the school year ends and than ramp up in the summer and instead of the snacks it's suppers for 6,000. just a

note about that the federal reimbursement is $3.16 and that will cover the cost of meals, delivery, additional staff hours so this gives us an opportunity -- a lot of the staff currently work three and a half hours and gives us an opportunity to expand their workday and we're working with the custodial services because the more meals we serve and students the more service we need to provide and this gives a summary of the schools we're rolling out -- that we have start at these schools. it's exciting to serve students three meals a day at school and we hope to keep moving that forward. although we have a media plan for the sites that have excel our after school programs our future vision looks at serving all of these and not just these and

that concludes the presentation for today. thank you. >> thank you and then the final piece that is going to be presented is by dr. hillary slugman and around the healthy supplementals. >>i am happy to talk to you about this program. we started this as a demonstration project with the center for vulnerable populations that we conducted in 2010 and 2011 and basically what you see in your packets is a sample of a paper voucher that we distributed to low income women with children. the voucher was redeemable for $10 worth of fruits and vegetables to women who lived in bay view hunter's point and the mission district and in order to get this system up and running we asked vendors in the neighborhood all of whom are wic approved vendors if they were willing to participate in the

program and we approached 26 vendors with some trepidation. 25 of the 26 vendors wanted to participate in the program. they wanted people coming into buy more fresh produce. it helps with the turn over of perishable foods which they have trouble stocking and they reported it was a benefit to the neighborhood and they wanted to be involved in doing positive things in the neighborhood. the participants who received the vouchers use the vast majority of the money -- meaning that the demand was high and they reported to us and intakes afterwards they increase the fruit and vegetable consumption but that of the children increased as well particularly the 2-5 year olds. this is an example very small of the people were purchasing with the vouchers, oranges, grapes, bananas and avocados and apples and peaches et cetera so

healthy products were purchased with the vouchers. there are a number of distinct advantages of using this voucher system. the first advantage is you can reach into populations that aren't reached in other programs. what we're proposing today we reach into the ssi population because they're not eligible for calfresh. obviously not eligible for school meals, meals for seniors in many cases so they're difficult to reach with other programs. but the other beauty is once you have a voucher program up and running you can distributed them to anybody you and want anybody's needs you're prioritizing and this supports local vendors. the money gets spent in the low income neighborhoods where people live. we know that a dollar of snap benefits

genigates more economic activity and we expect this will do the same thing and the vendors like the program and they can stock more nutritious foods and other people in the neighborhood can take advantage of it and we know that low income populations have difficulty affording fruits and vegetables and anything we can do to help that will help people stay healthy. there are similar programs to this in many communities in the united states now and wide vaility and scope ask cost and the this report is helping us so we know what the best practices of rolling out the cost effective and efficient program reaching the people we want to reach so the proposal today is that san francisco create the voucher program to support vegetable and fruit intake starting with ssi recipients and we had trouble

reaching them in the programs and realizing that we could scale this to anybody and all of the voucher money has to be spent in san francisco stores to support the local vendors and keep the money in the communities and funded by a combination of city support and private donations because our initial talks with private don't ars in the city is that there is support in the community among foundations and other private donors to contributing to the dollar value of the voucher. so if we were to give 10-dollar vouchers at 52 weeks a year to a thousand people and the scope it would cost $525,000 per year. if we did that 10 times that it's 5.2 million dollars and if we cover the demand we expect the recipients to have that is approximately 25,000 people and cost $13 million a year for the

face value of the voucher. remember that the economic multiplier so we expect $24 million in economic activity in san francisco. there are great economies of scale here in terms of the infrastructure. we suspect it would take 1.5 f.t.e.'s to cover the infrastructure for the enrollees but if you boosted it up the requirement would not go up that much and finally there has been support in san francisco's technology community for exploring ways we could do this local using electronic voucher card similar to a calfresh ebt debit card. are there any questions on that item? >> i am thinking if the ambitious goal is ending hunger by 2020 and using and ideas

like this are critical and the multiplier effect we have to keep in mind how cost effective and the city's general fund and supplementals from the private sector could go a long way but we have to think big and ambitious if we're thinking about ending hungry by that time but this is really good information. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and sorry about that and finally there were other items that were in the resolution that are going to be in your full docket. we will have one and we will have the results hopefully in june and we will convening a working group to look at indicators for food security and we will send the recommendations to the board as well as to the chief data officer and then there is a memo that was

prepared by diana from planning and how they plan to do these things and i will ask the chair of the task force to do the final recommendations. >> thank you and thank you supervisors for your attention during this. there is so much information shared today and i have the pleasure of summarizing and this is in the deck so you heard a lot of information and data about the opportunities there are to address the needs of food insecurity individuals in san francisco and in neighborhoods and across programs. can we make this thing go up? there you go. [inaudible]. first of all looking at calfresh and going through detailed analysis maximizing resources from calfresh remains at the top of the list for an opportunity to

leverage a program we invested so much in and we ask you today to invest in the outreach teams that were laid out the need for to enroll target san franciscans in the program that exists so that is approving position authority as well as funding the requests. secondly the efforts of san francisco has done to do these things are extremely innovative and rolled out and i also ask that you consider pushing up to the state requests to try to streamline the process, reduce administrative hassles, make the notices and paperwork less confusing and more understandable because that would do much to move the entire state toward an easier system where people don't have to worry about falling off the program due to inadvertent mistakes.

to ensure food security -- finally calfresh awareness month and may and anything you can do and there say team working on events and we can tie you into the efforts. to ensure food security with seniors and adults with disabilities we recommend instituting a city wide policy that would commit the city to a maximize wait list of no more wait of 30 days for those eligible and in emergencies 2-5 days. i think the numbers are $10 per person we're talking about to keep someone feed with two meals a day and that is obviously a worth while investment. we need to allocate the funding to meet those needs and conduct that analysis of not only the current estimate need now but the estimated growth with the baby boom and finally we need to invest in the development of the city wide

home delivered grocery program and less expensive and keeps the seniors and adults with disabilities? the home. third increasing childrens' access to the meals. we are thrilled with the partnerships with the unified school district and to have this program to feed children in our schools and we would ask you to promote the existing programs especially summer lunch, getsing more kids into the existing sites and having conversations to expand that city wide slb wouldn't -- would be excellent and you heard the idea of the healthy food supplemental. we talked about this before and if we're serious about addressing food security in san francisco we need to come up with local solutions and

this is innovative and creative idea and there are examples to draw from out there and we think we can improve on it and have a novel and home grown solution into the community and meet the needs not reached by the other programs and we help you to fund that demonstration project and facilitate the development and innovation and facilitate the public private partnerships to get this off of the ground and sustain it and with that i thank you for your time. >> thank you to all of the presenters. chair campos we have a number of speakers so i will open it up for public comment. i will call names others and can come forward. (calling speakers).

so it doesn't have to be in that order. please come forward and if people could line up either in the center aisle or on the side that would help and supervisor campos can we limit this to two minutes per person? >> you will each have two minutes and helpful if you line up on your right hand aisle, our left. i know for purposes of fire safety that's probably better so please come on up. you may begin. thank you very much. >> i think mr. evans the clerk

that either of the mics will work and there is a 30 second soft buzzer before the two minute allotment is over. >> [inaudible] >> hello good evening board of supervisors. i am concerned that we need more -- i'm at st. atkins and they need food. they helped me when i was sick and stuff like that. i am concerned about the sros and hotels and stuff. the problem with my hotel we have mice, roaches and big, big bugs, and i have been asking the

landlord to upgrade the hotels, so the elevator is messed up now, so i have been there for 25 years. i haven't seen upgrades no where ever. the only thing they did -- like if she asked them to paint the room or new carpets they won't do that. they just want the money like that, so and it's kind of messed up there a little bit and i get sick every night and i have been in and out of of the hospital. when i come in it's the same thing so of sick for a long time you know. you know blood pressure and then sometimes the elevator work and sometimes not. i have to walk the stairs and my legs swell up. i had three surgeries and when i ask when they're going to fix the rel

vaitor it's going to be months and that's where i am at today. >> thank you. next speaker thank you colleen for helping and thank you sir for speaking. next speaker. >> hi board of supervisors. thank you so much. i am carl speaking on behalf of st. anthonys and we along with

every members of the public of the food security task force are committed to this impressive goal by ending hungry by 2020. i wanted to highlight a story they think the safety net is working together. we are an organization that doesn't rely on public funding. we fund ourselves through private donation yet november 1 after the end of the economic stimulus package many of the folks that eat at st. anthony had as much as 21 meals reduced from the food stamp budget and we thought immediately with families and folk like that it went up 100 meals a day with us and shows how connected the food systems are. i think it's important to honor the work and research done towards each of the initiatives

and pledge st. anthonys and these organizations and unconditional support for the folks in san francisco. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am dolores mcghee and on the food security task force and i am one of the baby boomers that you mentioned earlier and i wanted you to know that i am very concerned about seniors that are much older than i am who cannot get food, nutritional food. they can get food but it's not nutritional so we work in the communities across the city to make sure that food is delivered to seniors. the oldest person i have on the delivery list will be 102 and that person still lives at home, and they're most happiest when they're at home our goal is make sure they're

not isolated or forgotten which happens to a lot of them, especially the ones not on any public assistance. they're just old. they worked all of their lives and aging in place in their homes and they're just old, so we want to make sure that they are not forgotten. thank you. >> thank you ms. mcghee. i wanted to call barbara from senior disability action. >> good afternoon. i am paul ash from the sf marin food bank. i want to urge the board and the agency to redouble its effort to increase participation in calfresh. it is our biggest signal tool to reduce hunger. in particular i want to urge the strategy of asking the state of california to do its part to make counties successful. the truth is calfresh participation

is a state wide issue and only when the state does its part will counties be successful. let me give you an example. we should ask -- maybe we should demand access to the state data base that will quickly and easily verify income for applicants. one of the things mentioned was the reasons that people don't even apply is the hassle in the paperwork. if we were able to get the income verification done electronically applicants don't have to run around looking for information. calfresh workers don't have to deal with that information in a paper form, and we reduce our costs so i urge us to ask the state to give us the help like they do in washington and oregon and most of the successful states in the nation. >> thank you mr. ash. next

speaker. >> hello. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. i am with the [inaudible] a jewish partnership for justice and an organization national organization and office here in san francisco and the largest growing in the u.s. and sole focus on domestic issues and engage american jews around justice and civil rights and i want to thank the task force for the work you did highlighting with such specificity the lack of food security here in san francisco. i would like to commend the board for its resolution to make san francisco food secure by 2020. that's a really bold move that we want to support. supervisor mar as you have stated it is really unacceptable that in our wealthy city one in four don't have food security. our faith traditions provoke and [inaudible] insist

ence on morality willing to call out the gap of the professed values and the priorities. on yom kippur we fast in a weaked state so we're not too self congrat tutory and we ask yourself this. is it not to share the food with the hungry and provide the poor with shelter? when you see the -- [inaudible] and not to turn away. the lack of food security takes place as you know in the larger context of alarming and growing inequality and that's what i want to highlight this is a entry point issue in a larger and demanding set of problems we're facing in san francisco in the bay area but really in san fransc