Dane County

Minutes - Final Unless Amended by

Committee

Food Council Food Plan Work Group

Consider:

Who benefits? Who is burdened?

Who does not have a voice at the table?

How can policymakers mitigate unintended consequences?

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

3:00 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

3 - Chair MARCIA CATON CAMPBELL, PHIL KAUTH, and REBECCA KEMBLE

Present

All Others Present: Nan Fey, Jess Guffey Calkins, Laura Scandurra, Madeline Keating,

Bryan Johnson, Dadit Hidayat, Dan Cornelius, Bill Warner

B. Consideration of Minutes

12.07.2022 MINUTES FOOD COUNCIL FOOD PLAN WG

2022

MIN-507

Attachments: 2022 MIN-507

A motion was made by CATON CAMPBELL, seconded by KAUTH, that the Minutes

be approved. The motion carried by a voice vote 3-0.

C. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda

D. Discussion Items

1. Food Rescue Assessment - Maddie Keating (National Resources Defense Council),

Bryan Johnson (City of Madison)

NRDC working with Madison as a Food Matters partner (to reduce food waste, redistribute

recovered food) - final year

Food Rescue Landscape Assessment - stakeholder convening? comprehensive

inventory/map of the city? NRDC example:

https://www.nrdc.org/resources/food-rescue-landscape-assessment-guide

Central Ohio Save More Than Food: https://savemorethanfood.org/

$10K: Deliverables would need to be completed by late June - as a contract, or grant to a

nonprofit.

Local partners working on food recovery: Healthy Food for All & FEED Kitchen, Sustain

Dane (grant to work on food waste in schools), Second Harvest Food Bank, prepared

meal sites, Littlejohn’s, Dane Food Access Network.

Sustain Dane Summit conversation - Nov 2022 around food waste.

Assessment can cover Dane County area.

Maddie: we may want to start with what we already know; use the funding for a convening

opportunity instead of an assessment - to help move toward federal funding, sustained

actions.

Bryan, Maddie - would work with interested lead to put the application together. Maddie’s

preference is a grant letter.

2. Dane County Pandemic Food System Study

Final recommendations will wrap up by March 1, followed by presentations

3. 2023 USDA Regional Food System Partnership (RFSP) grant & fundraising

4. USDA grant opportunities; statewide communication & partnerships

5. Farm Bill 2023

E. Announcements

F. Future Meeting Items and Dates

Move to meeting more frequently than monthly;

Farmland Preservation Task Force - meets 2nd & 4th Weds, 3-4:30pm.

Maybe next Food Plan WG meeting on 1st or 3rd Weds in Feb?

Organizing a broader Food Summit to engage more community members; connector

event. REAP, Extension (plus others) want to bring that back. REAP has a grant

application in that includes organizing a food justice summit. Intentionally, actively

outreaching to and including people who may not have been able to engage before.

G. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law

H. Adjourn

A motion was made by KEMBLE, seconded by KAUTH, that the meeting be

adjourned. The motion carried unanimously 3-0.