Okay, please call the meeting to order.

Thank you, Mayor.

Councilmember Kaplan.

Councilmember Dickinson.

Vice Mayor Telemontes.

Councilmember Plucky Baum and Councilmember Maple will be absent.

Mayor Pro Tem Gera is expected momentarily.

Councilmember Jennings.

Here.

Councilmember Fang.

And Mayor McCarty.

You have a quorum.

Okay, Councilmember Dickinson, can you lead us in a land acknowledgement and pledge?

My third time today.

Oh, really?

Okay.

I'll do it.

No, okay.

Okay.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgements in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous People and Tribal Nands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissan people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Meet Mewak, Patwin Wintoon peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous Peoples history, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

Salute, pledge.

And to republicans, individual justice.

Nothing to report out.

Thank you.

And Mary, I want to remind members of the audience this meeting is being live streamed in English and Spanish on YouTube.

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Our first special presentation is Food Literacy Month, presented by Vice Mayor Telemontes.

Thank you so much.

So I'm so happy to present this Food Literacy Month.

Um and I just have a quick story to share.

So if I can have Amber come up, actually to the podium.

She's the founder and CEO of the Food Literacy Center.

If she could tell you a little bit more about their project, but um they do incredible work in the community in helping uh Sacramento be more sustainable to in teaching kids healthier options um in the garden.

And they're just such a blessing to have here in Sacramento.

And while I was at their presentation, well, I learned a lot, a lot of fun facts.

Um I also saw a video presentation where they go to schools and dress up like blueberries and broccolies and different vegetables and fruits.

And it reminded me of myself in high school.

In high school, I started uh the Health Nutrition Club at school, and I used to dress up like fruits and veggies and go to the elementary school and teach kids about nutrition and why it's so important to be healthy.

And so when I saw the presentation by your team, I just like had a full circle moment and thought it was so beautiful, and so I wanted to present today and to talk about Food Literacy Month because I think that more people need to know about it, there needs to be more education, and just wanted to acknowledge your incredible work.

But while I was talking about it, I found out that my colleague, Councilmember Dickinson, then assembly member, is the actually the person that started this month.

And so I'm gonna hand it off to also present this resolution and talk about the history behind Food Literacy Month.

Oh, thank you.

Well, this is uh when I saw this on the agenda, I have to admit I chuckled.

Because uh it was what 2012, 2013.

2012.

2012, when uh Amber uh approached my my office and and suggested that what we needed was a state declaration of Food Literacy Month.

I thought that was a terrific idea.

I must admit in high school I I never dressed up as a vegetable.

I and I might have thought that Councilmember Talaman, you would have dressed up as pizza, but that that aside, uh we uh we traversed the legislative process and and got uh the resolution uh adopted, which established for the state of California every September as Food Literacy Month.

And that and it really was uh due to Amber's uh great inspiration and and her work.

Uh for those of you who um have not had the opportunity to visit the Food Literacy Center or see the activities of the of the center uh and in action, uh you you need to take advantage of the opportunity to do that.

And um it is just uh it is it's great fun to watch the kids and who have never tested or tried a lot of these vegetables to do that to see how they vote for the vegetable of the veggie of the year, uh, which I keep thinking is gonna be peanut butter, but never quite quite makes it.

But um uh it is uh wonderful to have the center now established on a permanent basis with the garden growing.

Uh just uh just uh um uh really at the uh on the other side of Broadway.

And uh what Food Literacy uh month really uh creates is the opportunity for us to emphasize the importance of eating smart, of uh being wise about uh our nutritional um values and our uh our um efforts to try to eat in a more healthy uh way.

I think it also is a good example for those of us who um are adults and uh don't necessarily eat as healthily as as as we should.

Um and Amber has carried this banner with uh a remarkable uh both effect uh and importance over these years, uh supported by a terrific team at the uh uh at the center.