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Sacramento Hunger Commission: June 2004 Minutes

  1. Meeting called to order by Steve Caruso.
  2. No quorum present at the meeting to approve minutes.
  3. Brief reports and announcements
    • Jake Salcone -- Has completed the rough draft of the Community Food Assessment in South Sacramento. He was looking at all of the different food resources in the neighborhoods of Avondale and Glen Elder. If anyone wants to review the report they should let him know.
    • Steve Caruso -- The next Hunger Commission meeting will be in the city of Elk Grove at the Elk Grove Community Food Bank Services. Commissioners will get a tour. If anyone wants to participate in “The Challenge” with a box of food from Elk Grove Food Bank, they should let Steve know ahead of time.
    • Peggy Roark -- Summer Food Media Day is this Friday, June 18th. It is a lunch event starting at 11:30am;
      Hope Awards will be Thursday, October 21st. Tickets are $25.00. Next Hope Awards meeting is July 13th at Mather Community Campus at 11:30am. Anyone else interested in being on the planning committee?
    • Ryan Dulin -- Generic (with space for your own name) HC business cards will soon be available. Peggy will send an email out to the commissioners not attending the meeting to let them know. For $20.00 each commissioner can get 1,000 personalized cards. E-mail Peggy Roark if you are interested.
    • Peggy Roark: -- Mayor Fargo attended the opening of the Southside Community Garden Sunday, June 6th. Aztec dancers blessed the garden. There was a good crowd and the garden itself is amazing. http://www.sacbee.com/content/community_news/sacramento/story/9568715p-10492359c.html
      • 1/3rd of the former Mandela Garden site will be set aside for a community garden
    • Jake Salcone -- Jake was very impressed with the California Community Food Security Summit in Los Angeles; he will type up some notes and email them to commissioners.
    • Kay Schlegel -- Kay, Richard Schroeder and Tanya Kaplow attended the Tahoe Park Neighborhood fair Saturday, June 12th. “It was a fun day.” Kay recommends that we clean the plastic food guide pyramid somehow to get the tape off.
    • Laurie Green -- Laurie is in the process of transitioning to a new job with State WIC, may include food security issues. She is hopeful that she will be able to continue with the Hunger Commission.
    • Peggy Roark: Update on State Legislative Bills supported by California Hunger Action Coalition:
      • The drug felon bill (AB 1796) has been watered down so that only convicted drug users qualify, and not distributors, etc.; it is now going through Senate committees.
      • Steinberg’s Finger Imaging Bill (AB 2013) has moved to the Senate side.
      • The School Breakfast Bill (AB 2200) is apparently not going anywhere this year, but 2 out of 3 not bad.
    • Russell Medeiros: Approached to do EBT fraud
      • Russell witnessed first hand an EBT (Electronic Balance Transfer, the new food stamp card) attempted scam. A man outside a grocery store told him that he would buy whatever food Russell needed (on his EBT card) and only charge him half in cash. EBT has generally reduced fraud, but . . . .
  4. Sacramento Hunger Commission Food Charter
    The Hunger Commission needs to formally adopt the Food Charter, as belonging to the Commission. This is particularly important as the Charter is taken to different political entities in the county. The Hunger Commission went over each bulleted action item listed on the Food Charter to make sure that the whole Commission agreed with the final language.
    • Wording changes were made to make the Charter relevant to Sacramento region, and not just city.
    • Description of all residents ( “…adults, children, seniors, and the disabled…”) removed because of sensitivity towards singling groups out.

    It was a unanimous vote, among those present, to change the items listed above. A motion was made to ask for an email vote so that the commissioners not present can also vote. If there is an overall majority the Charter will be adopted. Cindy will make the changes and send the revised version to Peggy.

    When the Charter was passed around to all the Supervisors it ended up without any of the action points! The HC needs to know why and will postpone putting the Charter on a Board of Supervisors’ meeting agenda until this has been resolved.

  5. New vision and mission statements from the “Cathedral Building” Task Force
    The Cathedral Building Task Force has been meeting for the last six months. They were busy trying to decide “What is the ‘Cathedral’ (the ideal), who are the players?”, and “What is the HC and what do we do?’ The task force came up with 22 points that would exist in a food-secure and hunger-free Sacramento; these were divided into four different groups: access, community building and partnership, resources and education.
    Vision: Our community food-secure and free of hunger
    Mission: To serve as a ["community" stricken and changed to] catalyst to expand access to nutritious food, promote partnerships, secure resources, and enrich education to realize our vision.
    The decision was made to take out ‘community’ from the mission statement. There will also be an email vote for the commissioners absent. Cindy will make the change and pass the revised version on to Peggy.
    The commission discussed using the vision statement as the slogan for the Hunger Commission.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:05pm

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