All right, welcome.

Good morning.

This is uh I'm calling to order the mayor's advisory commission on food access.

It looks like we have a quorum.

So thank you everyone for once again getting up and joining us.

Uh this is September.

I believe we've had, I should have counted, but if we had six meetings, anybody know that sound about right?

Five.

Okay, well, I'm a little ahead of myself.

So five.

From our official scribe.

Um so again, thank you.

I'm before we get into our uh program this morning.

I want to just let the um committee know that we need to start thinking and talking about a final report.

I know Cindy is keeping great notes and making comments.

Uh for the next meeting in October, we will have a special presentation that has been set up for us.

I don't know.

Do you want to say anything?

Or no, sorry, let's see.

Um yeah, right, sorry.

So you're in different chairs this time.

You switched on me.

Okay.

Um if you want to just quickly give the commission uh just a quick kind of overview of what we're gonna do October and remind us of that date.

Of course.

So Aaron Goldstein, who's the senior manager for governmental relations with the organization Share Our Strength, who is part of the grant application that we just applied to, um, is going to be present to present to us at our meeting, um, which is why we needed to shift the weeks to accommodate his schedule.

Um so he actually just reached out yesterday to ask me how much time he would have to present to us, and I told him my understanding was the floor was his after we began the meeting.

So he's planning uh to speak with us about childhood hunger.

Great, and that date is October 1st.

October 1st, okay.

So that's great.

So our next meeting will be October first.

The October meeting will be October 1st.

So there will not be one then that month in the third Thursday.

Now, also um, and thank you, Amanda, for setting all that up.

Thank you for leading the charge on the uh applying for the grant, etc.

So thank you very much.

Um we I also have one more organization that would like to present.

And so I thought maybe I might work that into the October meeting, but we could go into November also.

If everybody has looked into their calendars for that third Thursday, I don't know if that's hopefully that's not Thanksgiving, but it's getting darn close.

Is that Thanksgiving?

Anybody looking?

Okay.

So will we do you want to have a meeting?

So that's my next question.

Do you want to have a meeting that third Thursday of November?

And if so, I can move that other organization to that third Thursday.

But I think, and my goal, and and I'm open to feedback, you know, that we would want to try and have December be our goal for wrapping up our report and getting something out to the public as far as um connection and access, identifying any gaps, et cetera.

Cindy, do you want to comment on that?

Just a quick question.

So on our agenda, it says that each member is appointed by the mayor, and each member's term expires on December 31st, 2027.

Yeah.

So what is the plan then after the final report?

So then I think um based on what we decide to uh so you know this is all new, and there really technically is no plan, which is the beauty of it.

Um we are we are going to serve as needed.

Uh we're at we're we're serving to not just to hold meetings, but to try and get to an end result, and then ongoing, we would then serve a function of being a connection uh to the organizations, new organizations, and and we may change our cadence on meetings.

So that's up that's up to us to decide.

And we we really probably have to start talking about that and thinking about it.

So and we could use certainly the rest of our November meeting for that kind of a discussion.

Um we can have uh another meeting to discuss the report.