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Rules Committee advances ordinance to keep hospital and jail food-purchasing standards, removes near-term farm sourcing dates
Summary
The Rules Committee forwarded an amended ordinance that would keep food-purchasing goals for San Francisco hospitals and jails in the Administrative Code indefinitely, removing near-term deadlines for sourcing from medium and small farms and duplicating the file for further departmental analysis.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee voted on July 28, 2025, to forward an amended ordinance that would amend the Administrative Code to retain city standards for food purchasing at hospitals and city jails and to remove specified near-term sourcing deadlines for medium and small farms.
The ordinance, reintroduced by Supervisor Shamone Walton, would raise several procurement goals for health and corrections facilities — for hospitals the proposal raised the target for sourcing from small and medium-sized farms to 15% and for jails it would increase local food purchasing to 40% and double targets for pesticide-free foods — and would require public disclosure of…
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