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8 <br /> • Facilitate connections — across departmental silos and within the community <br /> • Provide focus —through assessing, learning, and identifying priorities <br /> • Policy and programming recommendations that drive action <br /> What Food Councils can do: <br /> • Advocate for a policy to require that 10% of all food served at county catered events <br /> and small department-sponsored meeting be sourced locally. <br /> • Improve access to food processing resources and kitchen equipment/facilities for local <br /> food entrepreneurs. <br /> • Assist in writing/support policy to allow community gardens on city-owned property. <br /> • Advocate for a policy limiting the sugary products available in vending machines, and <br /> approved for fundraising at local public schools. <br /> What have we done so far: <br /> Collaborative Agreement <br /> • Defines Purpose, Common Values, Structure, Decision-making Process and <br /> Membership <br /> • Membership stakeholder categories: <br /> o Food Access/security <br /> o Agriculture <br /> o Health/Healthcare <br /> o Economic Development <br /> o Environmental stewardship/justice <br /> o Planning <br /> o Public education <br /> o Retail: grocers, restaurant, wholesale <br /> o Waste management <br /> o Elected officials from municipalities <br /> o UNC <br /> o Faith-based organizations <br /> o Consumers (diverse including across lifespan, ethnicity) <br /> Sarah Prager, Orange County Food Council Member and Chapel Hill Farmer's Market <br /> Coordinator, continued the presentation: <br /> Baseline Orange County Food Assessment: Purpose &Approach <br /> Purpose: Understand how the Orange County Food Council may support a successful and <br /> socially, economically, and environmentally just system providing safe, culturally appropriate, <br /> and nutritionally sound food. <br /> Food Assessment: Data Collected <br /> Cyril Murphy resumed the presentation: <br /> Next Steps... <br /> • Finalize Council membership including representation from all municipal elected bodies. <br /> o Includes appointment of Orange County Commissioner to Council seat <br /> • Transition from Task Force to Council <br /> • Hire part-time Coordinator <br />