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Office of Food Justice asks to maintain funding for farmers‑market coupons, Double Up Food Bucks and food recovery hub
Summary
City officials and community groups urged the Ways and Means committee to preserve funding for farmers‑market coupons, Double Up Food Bucks and a newly opened Greater Boston Collaborative Food Access Hub seeded with ARPA funds.
The Boston Office of Food Justice (OFJ) presented its FY26 operating request May 1 to the City Council committee and highlighted a level-funded budget with personnel cost-of-living adjustments alongside continued contract funding for community partners that run food-access programs.
"Our mission at the Office of Food Justice is to build a food system that is equitable, resilient, sustainable, and just," Director Aliza Wasserman told the committee. She said OFJ currently has seven permanent staff and fellows and that most of the office's budget supports contracted services to community organizations that operate the city's food-access programs.
Wasserman reviewed several ongoing…
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