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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown
3:42:26
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166 sec
Sharon Brown provided testimony on various food-related issues, including concerns about spoiled food in shelters and suggestions for improving food distribution and access. She proposed creating non-profit restaurant chains and grocery stores, and coordinating with existing businesses to reduce food waste and provide meals to those in need.
- Expressed concern about shelters giving out spoiled food and called for follow-up on this issue
- Suggested creating non-profit restaurant chains and grocery stores to provide free food
- Proposed coordinating with existing grocery stores and restaurants to distribute unsold food to people in need and schools
- Advocated for prayer and religious education in schools, as well as ensuring all students are fed
- Mentioned the need to close Rikers Island, though this was not directly related to the main food insecurity topic
Sharon Brown
3:42:26
Hello.
3:42:26
My name is Sharon Brown from Rosewood Sharon Enterprises.
3:42:30
Before I begin, remember the hostages, release the hostages, let Yahweh's people go, defend Israel.
3:42:37
Okay.
3:42:38
For general welfare, as far as the food is concerned, I am still concerned about the shelters.
3:42:47
They were giving out spoiled food that's specific shelters.
3:42:51
I wanna know if that there's gonna be some kind of follow-up on that.
3:42:55
It was like maybe six months ago, six months before that they were saying it was a problem.
3:43:03
We came back, it was still a problem.
3:43:05
They were giving out spoiled food at the shelter so I hope that's being taken care of.
3:43:10
I want to make not for profit sit in restaurant chains and grocery stores not for profit.
3:43:18
I hope other people do that.
3:43:19
Just regular restaurants all different variety, Mexican, Chinese, anything, but just up to standard and regular grocery stores bodegas and things that give out food that are free.
3:43:36
And we need to try to coordinate with the grocery stores they have now, the grocery stores, the restaurants and stuff, the people that don't sell out the groceries and they always wind up with a backlog of food getting spoiled just sitting there, maybe they can coordinate and have people come in and shop before all that food goes spoiled or they can do charitable giving.
3:44:03
So when people are in need you can get people to coordinate with certain grocery stores, they can go there and they can shop and then they can do some kind of tax write off, they can get some kind of benefit, maybe somebody can organize that myself or something.
3:44:21
We need prayer in school, we need to we need prayer, we need the bible, we need the 10 commandments in school, we need to make sure that all the students are fed and they can coordinate with the schools and the grocery stores and stuff like that.
3:44:40
The school just a few more minutes.
3:44:42
The parents that don't have food at home but they do have food at school, maybe we can coordinate with the restaurants and the grocery stores that when they're doing bad and they're not selling they can coordinate and coordinate with the schools and the families to you to give food to these families, let them shop and they can do it as a tax write off charitable giving or something and just Rikers Island needs to be closed.
3:45:11
Thank you.
Diana Ayala
3:45:12
Thank you so much for coming Sharon.