Milwaukee Food Council Meeting

January 19, 2017  |  Body & Soul Healing Arts Center  | 3617 N. 48^th Street |  Milwaukee, WI 53216

1. 8:30 – 9:00 am Networking and Orientation for new members – Stephanie Calloway
2. Meeting Starts @ 9:15am – Welcome and Overview
   1. Greeting by Stephanie Calloway – 1^st official annual meeting as 501c3 non-profit org. You must be a registered member to vote, if you wish to register you can do it during the start of the meeting
      1. Two ballot edits:

• Pahoua Xiong not listed on ballot, please add name
• Nayla Bezares is no longer running
  1. Gratitude to space and Venice Williams keeping of it
  2. Gratitude to Outpost and Paulette hospitality committee
     1. Invitation to have meeting at alternate locations in July and September. If you’re interested in hosting the meeting, let Stephanie or Paulette know.
     2. Paulette – invitation to join “best committee that never meets” hospitality committee. Other committees are Fundraising committee, policy committee
  3. Food council meets 2 times a year, 12 hours total, continuously balancing moving forward and informing everyone, negotiating balance of engagement and information sharing. Overview of principles for creating a culture of inclusivity
  4. Introductions 9:30 to 9:45 Organized as a membership organization – need to be a paid member to vote; otherwise, there’s a lot of things that we need you for and could use help with, don’t need to be a member
• MFC Committee Updates and engagement 9:46
  1. Kristen Fledderjohn – presentation of 2017 budget and 2016 financial summary
  2. Motion of all assembled to provide blessing of 2016 financials and 2017 budget held by Dennis, Second by Gretchen Mead, all approved, no opposed – not official vote, just show of support to board

1. Tim McCollow @ 10am City of Milwaukee
   1. Milk and dairy settlement
   2. Mobile solar powered water pump available, paid for by ECO/Milwaukee Shines
   3. Compost Research project with Greg Lawless – Sare grant – if you can help Greg then contact Ryan Schone to coordinate
   4. Everything HomeGr/own does is public and private partnerships, honored by Harvard Kennedy School
   5. City working on North Ave, going to build park right next to Fondy Farmer Market
   6. Working on study of bringing supermarkets into city to increase access to healthy food – Alderman Rainey initiative
2. Bruce Wiggins – Request to provide notice of availability of city’s healthy food report
3. Tim – expand presence of facebook and help get the word out
4. Venice Williams – not everyone can post directly to facebook page
5. Mary Glass – is this coordinated with the webmaster?
6. Food Security Initiative Update Overview Nya Taryor @ 10:10
   1. Connecting with food council participants – met regarding economic development initiatives
   2. Suggested to develop co-op, need to figure out what people need, going to connect again and discuss ways to move forward
   3. Setting up additional meetings on other focus areas, contact Nya Taryor
   4. Stephanie – gathering ideas and working on pushing forward local food initiatives. Limited capacity as food council volunteer board to hold initiatives
      1. Mary Glass – is there a timeline? And who is Nya Taryor?
      2. Nya – I’m VP of food council and work with Summerfield United Methodist Church to help give more people access to food and on board of interchange food pantry
   5. City of Milwaukee Connections – Stephanie Calloway @ 10:17
      1. One of goals of 2013 Refresh Milwaukee plan was to form formal relationship with food council, now we’re in 2017 and still working on it. How do we as a food council want to be connected to City of Milwaukee ECO Office and Health Department? Had some back and forth conversation with the City, hopefully we are weeks away from finalizing MOU which includes City of Milwaukee presence at MFC meetings and twice a year at board meetings, and how food council can work with city to develop food policies. Don’t have an MOU signed yet.
      2. Bruce Wiggins and Mary Glass would like to work on public policy committee or workgroup to help determine how MFC would make recommendations on policy though MOU
      3. Visits to Common Council Bruce Wiggins @ 10:26
         1. I have packets for those who have done training, need additional people and will have additional training – also need to train new board members – sending around signup for another training – asked for show of hands for various timeframes
            1. Will Kort – do you have to be a city resident?
            2. Bruce – best if people visit their own alderperson in districts they live or work, but not necessarily required
            3. Rich Kauper – people who don’t have access to what is happening at food council – give some consideration to homeless people in SE Wisconsin, maybe 3,000 children lacking meals and maybe 17,000 people not sustainable on 24 hour basis – consider working with hospitals more and do it soon, intentional outreach to those without access to electronics

• Election @ 10:34am – Stephanie current board members who are continuing please stand up and introduce yourselves: Catherine Draeger Pederson, Nya Taryor, Antoine Carter, Damian Coleman, Martha Davis-Kipcak (Martha mentioned that Bonnie Halvorsen is not present today but is on board)
  1. Board members leaving introductions – Tatiana Maida, Ryan Schone, Tim McCollow, Tony Farrell
  2. Candidate Introductions, 1 min each – profiles were posted on web site and notified by email: David Berka, Stephanie Calloway, Karin Conway, Kristen Fledderjohn, Marie Jewell, Dawn Powell, Barbara Richards, Erika Villafuerte, Pahoua Xiong
  3. Vote of present members held @ 10:53am
• Announcements @ 10:55
  1. Venice Williams – Herbal Apprentices Gathering and Informational Meeting Sunday 3pm to 5pm.
  2. Alice’s Garden One Day Conference Saturday April 8^th 8am to 5pm, inviting 60 people for $60 each, 30 slots registered and 30 slots available, talking about how and why we do things at Alice’s Garden
  3. Stephanie Calloway – Food as Medicine Classes for adults and children, herbal apprenticeship at Core-El Centro limited to 20 spots
  4. Gretchen Mead – Victory Garden Initiative – Food Leader Certificate Program Kickoff Retreat coming up, Fruity Nutty Affair, Garden Blitz in May
  5. Antoine Carter – Groundhog Day Garden Leader Symposium Sat Feb 4^th 10am to 1pm Menomonee Valley Urban Ecology Center
  6. Meg Kilkenney – Foodshare / Quest sales at Milwaukee farmers markets increased 17% last year, stop by winter market at the domes
  7. Lutheran Volunteer Corps gathering Feb 21^st
  8. Stephanie – additional call for hospitality committee and alternate meeting location – paula provide requirements for meeting facility
  9. Bruce Wiggins – tough choice with 9 candidates and six get elected, hope that 3 not elected will continue to be involved
  10. Venice Williams – filling in slots for community organizations that want to share information at Outpost Makers Market – just show up with materials on Saturday 12-3 – information slot only, not vending
  11. David Johnson – Convene people around food security – Friday March 17^th target date 9am to 1pm for workshop, location not determined, 3 sessions overview of blueprint to end hunger, promoting and accessing healthy food, takeaways from the day
  12. Venice Williams – need to be conscious of when we offer things / programs so we are really engaging those on the ground doing work, and they can participate
  13. Stephanie @11:07am waiting for election results still – if you have to go we understand, it’s after 11am
  14. Stephanie Election Results @ 11:13 – there was a tie! Five made it and email ballot to choose between the other two. Elected in alphabetical order: Stephanie Calloway, Kristen Fledderjohn, Marie Jewell, Erika Villafuerte, Pahoua Xiong,
  15. Dawn Powell and Barbara Richards tied and yet to be decided

Adjourn @ 11:15am