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Leon County charter committee backs option 3 to bring back draft food‑systems charter language
Summary
After extended public comment and debate over funding and legal limits, the Citizens Charter Review Committee voted unanimously to ask staff to return draft charter language on food access and food‑system resilience under a narrower, staff‑informed option (option 3). Next steps: staff will prepare draft language and fiscal assumptions for further committee review.
The Leon County Citizens Charter Review Committee voted unanimously to instruct staff to prepare draft charter language to address county food access and food‑system resilience under option 3, a narrower approach that asks staff to return recommended language and implementation details for committee review.
Dr. Bruce Strobel, who initially proposed more prescriptive charter text, said the goal was to ensure a permanent, county‑level structure for food systems. "I'm requesting that the charter direction goes, establishes a county duty for full access and full system resilience, creating an office of full systems under the county administrator...requiring a county wide plan with…
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