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, January 25, 2023  
5:30 PM  
Hybrid Meeting: Attend in person at the Lyman  
Anderson building 5201 Fen Oak Dr; Meeting Room  
Moraine; attend virtually via Zoom.  
A. Call To Order  
8 -  
Present  
Supervisor MICHELE RITT, Vice Chair SHEENA TESCH, Chair BILL WARNER,  
MARCIA CATON CAMPBELL, SHIRLEY NENNIG, ABHA THAKKAR, Supervisor  
RICHELLE ANDRAE, and ERICA JANISCH  
1 - DANIEL CORNELIUS  
Excused  
OTHERS PRESENT: YGP Representative Josie Capps, Jess Guffey Calkins  
B. Consideration of Minutes  
12.14.2022 MINUTES FOOD COUNCIL  
2022  
MIN-530  
Attachments: 2022 MIN-530  
A motion was made by CATON CAMPBELL, seconded by JANISCH, that the  
Minutes be approved. The motion carried by a voice vote 7-0.  
C. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda  
D. Action Items  
TESCH arrived at 5:36 pm.  
DCFC Work Groups  
Members held a discussion about some possible adjustments to DCFC Work Groups.  
A motion was made by ANDRAE, seconded by RITT, to postpone discussion until  
February meeting be approved. The motion carried unanimously 8-0.  
E. Reports to Committee  
Work Group Reports  
- Food Access, Relief & Economic Support  
No report  
- Food Plan – CATON CAMPBELL, WARNER, Guffey Calkins  
Work group is holding discussions about which entities will be the lead applicants for the  
USDA Regional Food System Partnership grant. The City of Madison is working with  
Natural Resources Defense Council on a Food Matters Initiative. The initiative is looking  
into gathering information about the food rescue landscape of Madison/Dane County (by  
June), which could connect to and supplement Dane County Pandemic Food System  
Study.  
Sift Consulting will present about the Dane County Pandemic Food System Study at the  
DCFC meeting on Weds, March 22, 5:30 pm (hybrid format – option to attend either via  
zoom or in-person (5201 Fen Oak Dr, Madison, WI, 53704 - Moraine Room). There is an  
option for Sift to present at a Dane County Board meeting as a “Special Matter” – limited  
to 10 minutes, no questions. Or Sift could present at an EANR Committee meeting.  
- Regional Agriculture & Food Sovereignty – TESCH, CATON CAMPBELL, Guffey  
Calkins  
Currently supporting and assisting the City of Madison Farmland Preservation Task  
Force.  
Staff Reports  
- City of Madison – George Reistad via Guffey Calkins  
https://madison.legistar.com/View.ashx?  
M=F&ID=11523057&GUID=552976C2-1CBB-4F2B-9D75-72863CFD36B9  
MFPC is doing some facilitated council planning in Jan & Feb 2023.  
- Public Health Madison & Dane County – Nick Heckman via Guffey Calkins  
Locally cases are stable and statewide cases continue to decrease. Nationally, most  
metrics are trending downward. Cases, hospitalizations and test positivity are all down by  
about 20% in the past two weeks after a period of increasing activity just after the  
holidays. The improving conditions are most pronounced in the Northeast which had  
some of the country’s worst outbreaks for much of December and early January. Locally,  
hospitalizations are stable. Statewide, as of 1/17, inpatient hospitalizations with COVID  
are decreasing and the number of people with COVID in the ICU is stable. Deaths remain  
low locally and statewide, but nationally, the daily average number of deaths has  
increased to over 500 per day. This increased number has begun to level off in recent  
days.  
- Dane County/Extension – Jess Guffey Calkins  
Upcoming food systems educational events on the UW-Madison Extension Dane County  
website (https://dane.extension.wisc.edu/) include Vegetable Farmers: Becoming the  
Employer of Choice (multiple sessions between Jan 5 – Feb 6), Organic Vegetable  
Production Conference (Jan 26-27 online, Feb 3-4 at Alliant Energy Center), Green  
Thumb Gardening Vegetable Series (through Jan 30).  
Regular Business Reports  
- Double Dollars – Guffey Calkins  
No report  
- Community Gardens – Nicholas Leete  
No report  
- Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future - Community of Learning Practice –  
THAKKAR  
The last meeting was November 2022. Upcoming in-person gathering in Mississippi (late  
Apr/early May). Thakkar has to step away due to other commitments arising – looking for  
a DCFC member to step in. The group meets 4th Wednesdays 12-3 (zoom) for another  
4-6 months.  
Council Discussion  
- 2023 PIE Food Project grant process – NENNIG, RITT, THAKKAR, Guffey Calkins  
Application period open through Feb 27. Many of the FARES Work Group  
recommendations were incorporated into application changes. The application was  
combined with the scoring rubric for increased transparency. There is also higher priority  
for applicants outside the City of Madison and priority to not-previously-funded applicants.  
Review team will be RITT, NENNIG, JANISCH.  
- Work Groups  
This was discussed under D.  
- 2023 Meeting Schedule  
DCFC will meet on 4th Wednesdays. No Feb 22 meeting; an email will be sent to  
announce whether the meeting will be moved to Feb 15 or March 1.  
F. Announcements  
G. Future Meeting Items and Dates  
February meeting date change.  
H. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law  
I. Adjourn  
A motion was made by NENNIG, seconded by TESCH, that the meeting be  
adjourned. The motion carried unanimously 8-0.  
Minutes respectfully submitted by Jess Guffey Calkins, pending council approval