paula jones. >> thank you supervisor mar. thank you supervisor mar for sponsoring this hearing and for others sponsoring this hearing. i'm going to just bring up the powerpoint hopefully. >> maybe we can get some help. >> thank you derek. i would like to thank nick from supervisor mar's office for all of his help in planning for this presentation. thank you very much. i appreciate this derek. so today as supervisor mar said we're here as part two of the hearing on food security and improving food security in san francisco and ending hunger and today i'm going to first of all summarize quickly some of the key concepts from the last hearing that we overviewed with you and then move quickly into the high priority solutions going over first of all -- gina will discuss how to maximize enrollment in calfresh. linda from aging and adult services will talk about how to improve food security for seniors and adults with disabilities. staff will talk talk about expanding meals with children and we will talk about a healthy supplemental

public health department and the director of food systems from the department of public health paula jones and we have dr. len in a in the unified school district food and fitness committee. and we have bob one of our superintendents in our rec and park department so let me introduce christen and also paula jones i'm not sure if she's here >> good afternoon supervisors. i believe my presentation is loaded here it might not be so - my name is christen i'm the senior health planner in the department of public health. and i'm here today to talk to you about the impacts of sugary drinks. excuse me. while i get this up sorry about that. here it is. >> so we're waiting for the imagination there it is. >> so we've been working on the issue of sugary drinks since 2008 it's a public health issue. i'm going to start with diabetes it's been mentioned several times in 2003 did centers for disease control and prevention reported that diabetes will afflict 1 in 3 people born in 2000, however, they noted for african-american and latino children the risk was one in 2. for 50 percent are we are expect to b

we also have paula jones our director of the food systems and another gentleman here. and afterwards is len in a brooke from the san francisco unified school district and bob from the superintendant of neighborhood serves for the rec and park department. i also wanted to acknowledge that school board commissioners joe and rancho norton are here i'll be ask them to come up as well >> good afternoon. supervisors sorry for the delay i have to load my preparations i'm paula jones i'm with the public health department and staff our security task force i've been asked to speak about food access and also what the recommendation for improving food access are from the city level so let me see if i can get this. and i've given you all copies. thank you. thank you chair farrell and supervisor mar and supervisor breed. this task force is a citywide task force that is concluding the human service agency and the department of aid and the wick office and the food system office the department of the environment and youth and families and it includes this school district and sf general

paula jones and others are working with the san francisco urban agriculture alliance and identify areas for urban farms and i think that's a great suggestion. >>i am erica and i just really excited to hear all this information with what i have been learning at city college in the nutrition program. it collaborates well with my job as a case manager in a supportive program and it would be great to receive funding from dos and department of public health and the organizations that receive money from the human service agency that there be more of a coordinated collaborative effort to disseminate effort for calfresh and a lot of education around nutrition and just different health conditions that can be prevented by lifestyle so that's it. thank you. >> thank you erica. any other -- go ahead. >> so i want to say that amanda and i are also and a class of us are interested in helping out as much as we can and volunteering and maybe i will speak to paula. >> yeah i see the food security task force members smiling on that one. >> thank you. >> thank you. anyone else that would like to speak? mr

. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is paula jones, i'm with the department of public health and i serve on the task force as a member and also staff. we appreciate all of your support of the task force and all of our work and sponsoring the hearing last fall as well as the resolution committing to ending hunger and asking for additional analyses and we will be coming back as a task force to the board through the neighborhood services and safety committee next week on thursday to present data analysis on how we can move forward improving food security in the city. but today we're here to hear the applicants for two seats, seat 12 is for a nominee of department of children youth and families and seat 14 is a nominee from the san francisco unified school district. both applicants i have worked with through my work at the department of public health and on the task force and we are thrilled to have both members. >> okay, thank you very much, miss jones. first one up is heather tufts. >> good afternoon, my name is heather and i am with the, i'm a senior planner with the department of

justice stevens himself wrote the majority opinion in that 1997 case that allowed paula jones to opposether justices in december in perhaps the most famously political supreme court justice -- the supreme court decision in a generation. bush v gore. the same year that sandia day o'connor reportedly told friends she wanted to be sure she retired under a republican. yes, when the justices retire, it matters because the court is totally political. and that wraps things up for the reid report. i'll send you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern, and be sure to visit us on-line at the reader report.msnbc.com. the cycle is up next. hey, cycle it'ses. hey, one of i feel like i just saw. >> i wonder which one. any time you can mention them on any of these shows, it's a good thing. we're going to have a great show today. russell semons is going to be talking about meditation. boston marathon, some politics, and, you know, i hear that the guys at northwestern need a little encouragement before their vote to unionize on friday. going to try to give them a little pump up that they need. it's blue