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Discussion on food sourcing for senior centers
3:44:59
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Council Member Brewer and Commissioner Cortés-Vázquez discuss food sourcing practices for senior centers, focusing on local and sustainable options.
- Senior centers (referred to as 'older adult centers' by the department) have autonomy in their food sourcing.
- Many centers are embracing farm-to-table concepts and focusing on 'food as medicine' approaches.
- The department may track local sourcing data, but the commissioner needs to verify this information.
- Brewer mentions a previously passed law requiring tracking of food sourcing, which may not be fully implemented.
Gale A. Brewer
3:44:59
And just finally back to my food thing.
3:45:01
I know that, DCAS deals with you, correction, and HRA.
3:45:06
So do you do local sourcing?
3:45:08
And obviously you've got senior centers.
3:45:10
I mean, you'll call them those older adult things.
3:45:12
I call them senior centers.
3:45:14
Whatever.
3:45:15
Those centers are, you know, diverse.
3:45:19
Do they do their own food sourcing?
3:45:22
Do they work through you?
3:45:23
We're trying to get more New York State farmers to be able to be purchased from the city of New York as opposed to California, those god awful California vegetables.
3:46:00
So you don't keep track of that whether it's locally sourced or otherwise?
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on exactly
3:46:07
If you do, I'd love to know.
3:46:10
There
3:46:11
I do have a law that passed many years ago that says we're supposed to keep track.
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And to be honest
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real And we
3:46:21
Don't go Wednesdays.
3:46:22
Thank you.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
3:45:34
Yeah.
3:45:34
I I am really proud of the way that our not for profit network sources its food.
3:45:42
I mean, they do so they are very much in tune with the farm to table, very much in tune particularly as we go into food as medicine.
3:45:53
So they are, they have a variety of ways of sourcing that.
3:45:56
But that is solely their responsibility on how they source food.
3:46:04
I think we do keep track of that.
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I'll get back to you
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is Yeah.
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with you, it's not
3:46:17
probably do.
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I just don't remember.
3:46:18
But I'll get back to you with a clear answer on that.
3:46:25
Go Wednesdays.
3:46:26
The food is good and the plant base is delicious and we have top chef winners.
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Justin Brannan
3:46:33
Gail, I'll eat your stuffed peppers if you don't want them.
3:46:38
Council member Lewis.