Dane County  
Minutes - Final Unless Amended by  
Committee  
Food Council  
Consider:  
Who benefits? Who is burdened?  
Who does not have a voice at the table?  
How can policymakers mitigate unintended consequences?  
Wednesday, April 16, 2025  
6:00 PM  
Hybrid Meeting: Attend in person at the Lyman  
Anderson building 5201 Fen Oak Dr; Meeting  
Room Moraine (C); attend virtually via Zoom  
A. Call To Order  
Chair WARNER called the meeting to order at 6:04pm  
6 -  
Present  
CARL CHENOWETH, Chair BILL WARNER, Vice Chair SHIRLEY NENNIG, ADDI  
FAERBER, JAY BROWER, and KERRY MARREN  
3 - ERICA JANISCH, DANIEL CORNELIUS, and SEBASTIAN HASSELL  
Excused  
Attended by Zoom: WARNER, MARREN, BROWER, NENNIG, HASSELL, JANISCH  
Others Present: YGP member Radhika Gupta, Jess Guffey Calkins  
B. Consideration of Minutes  
A motion was made by FAERBER, seconded by NENNIG, to approve the minutes.  
All in favor, motion carries (6-0).  
MINUTES OF THE MARCH 19, 2025, FOOD COUNCIL MEETING  
2024  
MIN-615  
Attachments: 2024 MIN-615  
C. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda  
None  
6:06 HASSELL joined  
7 -  
Present  
CARL CHENOWETH, Chair BILL WARNER, Vice Chair SHIRLEY NENNIG,  
SEBASTIAN HASSELL, ADDI FAERBER, JAY BROWER, and KERRY MARREN  
2 - ERICA JANISCH, and DANIEL CORNELIUS  
Excused  
D. Reports to Committee  
Regular Business Reports  
- Dane County Food Action Plan – WARNER, Guffey Calkins  
Project website: https://dane.extension.wisc.edu/dane-county-food-action-plan/.  
Consumer survey can be taken and shared: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q27L2CL.  
Community engagement focus groups are being organized - DCFC encouraged to attend;  
will work on sharing a list of dates.  
6:09 JANISCH joined  
8 -  
Present  
CARL CHENOWETH, Chair BILL WARNER, Vice Chair SHIRLEY NENNIG, ERICA  
JANISCH, SEBASTIAN HASSELL, ADDI FAERBER, JAY BROWER, and KERRY  
MARREN  
1 - DANIEL CORNELIUS  
Excused  
D. Reports to Committee  
- Wisconsin Food Systems, Inc - CORNELIUS  
No report  
- Regional Agriculture & Food Sovereignty; Community Gardens – Nicholas Leete via  
Guffey Calkins  
RAFS – After a few months off, we’ve settled on a regular meeting time of first  
Wednesdays of the month at 3 PM. Projects we’re hoping to work on are leases on  
city-owned land, potential community garden and other growing space expansion, high  
tunnel permitting, and putting together recommendations for the parks and open space  
plan and other area planning processes.  
- Food Access; Double Dollars Program – Guffey Calkins  
Double Dollars will be available at participating Dane County farmers markets from run  
June 1 – Oct 31.  
- Public Health Madison & Dane County; City of Madison Business Development – Nick  
Heckman via Guffey Calkins  
None  
- Extension/Dane County – Guffey Calkins  
Additional upcoming educational events are listed on the UW-Madison Extension Dane  
County website: https://dane.extension.wisc.edu/.  
DCFC Action Plan reports  
- Policy – Guffey Calkins  
Discussed information gathered about park land agriculture usage. Will meet again in  
May.  
- Food Access and Equity (PIE) - JANISCH  
Had a meeting to debrief the PIE grant process, and talk through ways to improve the  
application and process.  
Dane County received 34 applications for the 2025 Partners in Equity (PIE) Food Project  
grants: https://equity.countyofdane.com/grants/PIE-food. The total amount requested  
was over $126,000. The total funding to be granted is $40,000.  
- Community Engagement - WARNER  
We plan to mobilize people for Food Action Plan engagement sessions. We plan to  
compile points of contact for Dane County municipalities.  
- Organizational Capacity  
No report  
- Food System Resource Recommendations  
No report  
Council Discussion  
- PIE grant applicant follow-up  
A discussion was held about following up with PIE grant applicants who said they’d like  
help getting connected to partners and resources.  
BROWER and MARREN left at 6:58.  
6 -  
Present  
CARL CHENOWETH, Chair BILL WARNER, Vice Chair SHIRLEY NENNIG, ERICA  
JANISCH, SEBASTIAN HASSELL, and ADDI FAERBER  
3 - DANIEL CORNELIUS, JAY BROWER, and KERRY MARREN  
Excused  
E. Announcements  
FAERBER – Farm Fresh Atlas 2025 is printed and will be distributed. Distributing at an  
NFL draft event in Green Bay. Mid-May: Atlas Launch party.  
F. Future Meeting Items and Dates  
Next meeting is 5/21/25. Starting at *5:30pm* (then back to 6pm start in June).  
G. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law  
None  
H. Adjourn  
A motion was made by HASSELL, seconded by CHENOWETH, to adjourn the  
meeting. All in favor, motion carries (6-0). The meeting adjourned at 7:09pm.  
Minutes respectfully submitted by Jess Guffey Calkins, pending council approval.