REMARKS
Introduction and overview of the Mayor's Office of Food Policy
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Council Member Amanda Farías opens the discussion by asking about the main achievements of the Mayor's Office of Food Policy (MOFP) since it was codified into law. Rachel Atcheson, representing MOFP, provides an overview of their role as a coordinating body for various food-related agencies in the city.
- MOFP coordinates with agencies serving food in schools, hospitals, jails, homeless shelters, and older adult centers
- They have advanced the good food purchasing initiative, increasing transparency around city food procurement
- An interactive dashboard is available at nyc.gov/food showing food procurement data since fiscal year 2019
Amanda Farías
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Great.
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Thank you, folks, for your testimony.
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I appreciate it.
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I'm just gonna begin with some food governance questions and kind of talk about the questions and kind of talk about the MOFP.
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And, I know it was created by executive order over a decade ago and codified into law last session.
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What have been your main the main achievements of the mayor's office of food policy since it was codified into law?
Qiana Mickie
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Since this is a question for the mayor's Office of Food Policy, I'd like to direct that question to, my colleague here, Rachel.
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Sure.
Rachel Atcheson
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Hello.
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Rachel Lachison, deputy director for communications and intergovernmental affairs here at the mayor's office of food policy.
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So we are a coordinating body, that coordinates with all of the agencies that serve food and touch food in some way.
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So that means school food, hospital food, jails, homeless shelters, and older adult centers.
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Those are our, big buckets.
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We are very proud to have, advanced the good food purchasing initiative, that really increases transparency around, food as it relates to the city.
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So right now, you can actually go to nyc.gov/food and see an interactive dashboard where you can see all of our available data on where food is coming from from the fiscal year that we started.
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So fiscal year 2019.
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We're very proud of a lot of the work, that is done, in, the various offices that serve food, around the city.
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So, is there a particular agency that you are referring to?
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Because I'm happy to go into a broad overview as a lot of agencies touch food.
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But if there's schools, hospitals, jails, happy
Amanda Farías
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to speak to these people.
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What I'd love to hear more about are the agencies that share the goals and have successes or challenges presented in front of them and and whether or not, within those goals, do you, as a coordinating agency, create the overall comprehensive plan, or do each of the separate agencies have their own goals and their own plans to get to the shared goal?
Rachel Atcheson
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Absolutely.
