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Participatory budgeting reveals food insecurity in schools
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Council Member Stevens highlights the severity of food insecurity in her district, particularly among young people and in schools.
- She mentions that during participatory budgeting, a young person wrote a plea for money for food on the ballot.
- Stevens emphasizes that this issue is serious and prevalent in her district, especially in high schools.
- She reiterates her request for more information and support regarding food assistance programs in her district.
- Stevens expresses feeling that she's been carrying the burden of food pantry support largely on her own and requests additional resources and support.
Althea V. Stevens
1:06:39
Yeah.
1:06:40
I definitely yeah.
1:06:40
Know we don't set the eligibility for it but my question was are there other options.
1:06:45
Right?
1:06:45
And so obviously I think that this is something we do need to address especially with the price of inflation and things going up.
1:06:50
It's making it that much harder because people have less money for food especially when rent is additionally so high.
1:06:55
And I mean and just so fitting my staff as I'm sitting here, we're in the midst of participatory budgeting and on one of our ballots one of our young people just wrote please give us money for food.
1:07:06
So this is a real issue specifically in my district and this is at one of my high schools right now as they're collecting petitions.
1:07:13
So this is serious for me and it means a lot and like I said if there are things that my district is supposed to be getting, I have not seen them and I would love to get more information on what that looks like to make sure that we can have access to it too because I have not been seeing it or feeling it in District 16 at all.
1:07:31
I feel like I've really been carrying like the food pantry burden on my own so definitely would love some support and resources.
1:07:36
Thank you.