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Boston Food Access Council meeting

The Boston Food Access Council is holding a meeting on September 25 at 6 p.m.

Discussion Topics

  1. Opening
    • Welcome & Introductions (Catalina Lopéz-Ospina, Mayor’s Office of Food Access)
    • Remarks, Chief Marty Martinez, Health & Human Services Cabinet, City of Boston
    • Review evening’s agenda (Liz Miller, Mayor’s Office of Food Access)
  2. Discussion of Food Policy Work in General
    • Presentation from Emily Broad-Leib & Erika Dunyak with students Maggie McGovern and Matt Elkwood (Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic)
      • Food policy possibilities
      • Examples from Boston and other cities
    • Discussion of OFA overlap with BFAC (Catalina Lopéz-Ospina, Mayor’s Office of Food Access)
    • Questions
  3. Small group discussions, facilitated by Transition Committee members
    • Offer ideas for what BFAC can do to support food access in Boston
      • 3-5 things the BFAC should work on, your priorities for this year
    • Report back to full group
  4. History of BFAC (Liz Miller, Mayor’s Office of Food Access, & Tara Agrawal, Boston Children’s Hospital)
    • Trajectory of Boston Food Policy Council and Boston Food Access Council, 2009 -  Today
    • Transition Committee work
  5. Structure of new BFAC (Leah Triscari, ABCD, & Sonia Carter, Boston Public Health Commission)
    • New BFAC structure & Ways to get involved
    • Q&A
  6. Next steps for December 4th meeting
    • Steering Committee elections
    • Outreach
    • Explore Working Group ideas
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