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12 <br /> 1 with coordinating the Food Council and helping it achieve its goals. This presentation will <br /> 2 provide an update of the Coordinator's work and progress since July 2019 plus an overview of <br /> 3 the Food Council's plans for the 2020 - 2021 fiscal year. <br /> 4 <br /> 5 Ashley Heger, Food Council Coordinator, made the following PowerPoint presentation: <br /> 6 <br /> 7 Orange County Food Council <br /> 8 2019 Review and 2020 Scope of Work <br /> 9 <br /> 10 2019 - 2020 Fiscal Year <br /> 11 • Hired full-time coordinator <br /> 12 • Facilitated partnership with Orange Co Schools and Orange Co Solid Waste to begin a <br /> 13 school composting pilot program in 2 Hillsborough elementary schools <br /> 14 • Organizing a `state of food security' report for the County in January <br /> 15 • Facilitated Social Justice and Racial Equity workshops <br /> 16 • Grown workgroup participation in Local Food Economy, Racial Equity, Food Access and <br /> 17 Food Waste Recovery <br /> 18 <br /> 19 2020 - 2021 Goals & Scope of Work <br /> 20 • Develop a Food Policy Agenda (2 year process) <br /> 21 • Create a Racial Equity Community Data Index in collaboration with the Health Equity <br /> 22 Council <br /> 23 • Sustain workgroups and partnership development <br /> 24 <br /> 25 What is a Food Policy Agenda? (flow chart) <br /> 26 <br /> 27 Purpose & Structure <br /> 28 • Identify gaps and opportunities for improving the local food system <br /> 29 • Develop an agreement between partners where lived experience and racial equity is <br /> 30 centered and everyone understands their role in this work <br /> 31 • Provide policy recommendations and create process to keep policies accountable to the <br /> 32 outcomes/impact <br /> 33 <br /> 34 How this relates to our full scope of work in 2020 - 2021 <br /> 35 - Data Index as a tool for identifying issues and tracking outcomes <br /> 36 - Workgroups and partners helping drive this work and inform the process <br /> 37 - Working with a racial equity coach <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Commissioner Price asked if the data index could be explained. <br /> 40 Ashley Heger said many already exist, and they are looking at examples now. She said <br /> 41 it will likely be a public facing website, and one can look at disaggregated data from different <br /> 42 aspects of the community like affordable housing, etc. She said the Health Equity Council <br /> 43 would be part of a group that would be analyzing the data. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 5. Public Hearings <br /> 46 NONE <br /> 47 <br /> 48 6. Regular Agenda <br /> 49 <br />