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Superv. Safaie proposes food empowerment markets, DPH biannual report to ‘reimagine’ food security
Summary
Supervisor Ahsha Safaie told the Board he will introduce two ordinances: one to require a biannual Department of Public Health (DPH) report on food security and equity, and a second to create a Food Empowerment Markets Fund to grant nonprofits money to run dignified, consumer‑style free food markets.
Supervisor Ahsha Safaie told the Board of Supervisors on May 18 that the pandemic exposed deep food‑security gaps and that he will introduce two ordinances to change how the city distributes food.
Safaie said the first ordinance would require the Department of Public Health to publish a biannual food security and equity report and to establish a method for soliciting and integrating data from other city departments. The second ordinance would create a Community Food Empowerment Markets Fund — a special city fund intended to provide grants to nonprofits to establish and operate food empowerment markets that…
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