Agenda Item Name:
Title
City/County Collaborative Community Food Projects
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Presenter:
Claudia Tuck, Community Support Services Director and Sean McLendon, Strategic Initiatives Manager
Description:
A review of City of Gainesville and Alachua County Community Food Projects to Date and in Development
Recommended Action:
Recommended Action
Hear presentation
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Prior Board Motions:
NA
Fiscal Consideration:
Fiscal Consideration
NA
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Background:
This paper briefly summarizes some of the major food projects involving the City of Gainesville and Alachua County. Food Projects broadly defined, covers a range of project types, states of implementation, and collaboration. The City of Gainesville as both the major population center in the community and economic center makes them a focal point for collaboration for Alachua County. Food Projects may be loosely defined as applicable to Food Security (Hunger and COVID Relief Efforts), Local Food Logistics (Growers and Distributors), and Food System (Metrics and Commitments) projects. These project types may represent long term strategic priorities as found in the County's Comprehensive Plani, in-design, and in-execution efforts. Outcomes of these project types will frequently overlap and build upon one another. For the projects, where leadership other than County it is annotated in parentheses.
Local Food Logistics (Waste, Growers, Non-Profits, and Distributors)
FOOD SYSTEM COALITION (CITY OF GAINESVILLE)
Coordinated by Karissa Raskin, City of Gainesville this cross-section of community stakeholders helps to inform City of Gainesville policy on a diverse range of projects including Food Desert Elimination Action Plan and an Urban Agriculture Ordinance. The Coalition is an important information base of ongoing activities of programs, research, and people actively involved in promoting local food in our community.
URBAN AGRICULTURE ORDINANCE (CITY OF GAINESVILLE)
The Urban Agriculture Ordinanc...
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