Thursday   |  21 July 2016   |   9am to 11am

Escuela Verde   |   3628 W. Pierce St  |   Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53215

The Milwaukee Food Council is a coalition of diverse stakeholders committed to building a food system that is healthy, ecologically sustainable, economically vibrant, culturally relevant and socially just. Using collaborative action and collective impact, we bring our stakeholders together to increase the capacity to make real change.

1. 8:30 to 9am Networking and Orientation for New Members. Bonnie Halvorson.
2. 9:00am Meeting begins with introductions. Stephanie Calloway/Nya Taryor, Jr.

• Meeting starts promptly at 9:00 am
  1. MFC Leadership Transition and Board Updates

• Jesse Blom stepped down from the role of President to pursue a job out of state.
• Stephanie Calloway stepped into the role of President
• Nya Taryor stepped into the role of Vice President
• Catherine Draeger Pederson was invited to the Board as the person receiving the next highest number of votes from the election in January. Catherine will finish out Jesse’s term until January 2018.

• MFC committee updates. 9:20-9:40
  1. Executive Committee. Stephanie, Nya, Tony, Kristen

Information was covered in the opening about the transition

1. Membership Committee. Tony, Tatiana, Martha, Damien, Kristen

• As of July 17th, MFC has 25 members.
• Applications are on the website with pay pal or mailing a check for your convenience.

1. Fundraising Committee. Tim, Antoine, Bonnie
2. Policy Outreach Update. Stephanie Bruce Wiggins, Concerned Citizen

• We are developing a one-page hand out with information to give to the common council
• Mary Glass – what steps are we taking to ensure diversity in representation on the policy committee?
• Nya – we are seeking involvement of people ad membership who are actively engaged and working on committee
• Mary – What is the outreach mechanism

1. MFC Food Insecurity Initiative. Stephanie Calloway/Kristen Fledderjohn 9:40-10:00
   • Reporting on collective impact survey results from 2 years ago. Three main things stand out – affordability, geographic accessibility, desirability
   • Five action areas, need to take action, need champions
   • Passed out Good Food For All handout – “Not enough people have enough good food”
2. Youth Food Council. Venice Williams, Tracy Hrajnoha 10:00-10:05
   • Venice Williams & Tracy met with 15-20 youth who want to be part of youth food council, worked on youth food bill of rights, everyone wanted a leadership role, so it will be a team effort. Focused on 5 issues and is still evolving
3. Bonnie Halvorsen or David Johnson 10:05-10:10
   • CIUAN [Cooperative Institute for Urban Agriculture and Nutrition] –Inception 4 years ago, soon to be incorporated. New board has met twice. Board members are asked to appoint people to the community action council
   • Steve Ventura – Impetus of CIUAN is to bring all assets of universities, not just research
   • Paulette Flynn – align collective impact and IUAN deliberately
   • Catherine Draeger – already in process – CIUAN is not an official partner of collective impact yet – we love to network, and let’s do something, get started on items, what can we do together to shift the needle

• Milwaukee Public Museum exhibit. Martha Davis Kipcak. 10:10-10:15
  • Upcoming traveling exhibit “Global Kitchen” from March 3^rd to July 9^th of 2107. MPM would like to shine light on what you’re doing in the food system. Food is exceedingly complicated and yet ordinary topic. Exhibit has displays like what did ghengis khan eat, snapshots of food waste. FaB [Food and Beverage] wants to put spotlight on career pathways for youth. Contact for Martha 414-628-3456 mdaviskipcak@gmail.com
• 10:15-10:40
  • Job fair – August 9th 1-4 country springs hotel & conference center
  • July 28th 10:30am – 12pm – Milwaukee Smart Grocery Network – Center St Library 2727 W Center St
  • Aug 4th 12pm to 2pm – Public transportation lunch & learn – Grace Center 250 E. Juneau
  • Aug 16th 11am to 1pm – Lunch & Learn, Food And Nutrition Service Alan Shannon
  • Victory Garden Initiative – Sept 10th Farmraiser @ Concordia Gardens, Free Healthy Cooking Classes
  • Compost Kids – collecting food scraps – Bay View Bash – Sept 17th – Kinnicinic e@kompostkids.com
  • Friedens / Guest House Harvest Fest – Sept 15th – Free meal – dinner – farming program guests graduate – 4pm to 8pm – tour of new building – 13th & Juneau
  • Christy Melby-Gibbons, tricklebee café – pay what you can café – corner of 45th and north ave – soft start is in September
  • Groundwork Milwaukee – doors open Milwaukee Sat Sept 17th – two tours to visit 5-7 community gardens, one on north side, one on south side, on a trolley
  • Showing of Can You Dig This during the film festival – can get youth into showing for free
  • Escuela Verde – charter school – bilingual – community nights throughout year – invitation to observe how school works and/or come share skills with students – focused on environmental issues
  • Paulette Flynn – thanks hospitality committee – downstairs is compost and garbage, please take it down
  • Martha Davis-Kipcak – has everyone signed in? – senator taylor supposed to be here momentarily
  • CIUAN – foodlinkmilwaukee.org database available – create a profile for yourself
  • American Heart & Stroke Association – healthy food financing and access is board priority

1. Senator Lena Taylor – Forward Wisconsin Q&A 10:40-11:00am
   • Workforce Development Agencies Contacted? YES, all of them
   • What funding is available and how to apply? Farm Bill, Love & Faith Initiative – dollars in state agencies already being spent use for something else
   • What is your office’s role? Trying to create infrastructure for funding forestry & agriculture. Lena Taylor created the idea – office not doing work, not writing grant, holding vision and facilitating collaboration
   • Tools & Resources to connect to re-entry workers – IRIS project – DOC / house of corrections / employ Milwaukee – 600 people re-entering from prison – create new model for re-entry
   • IF hiring a re-entry worker what are requirements? – Same as any other employee – if subsidy program, reporting required – working on making that easier
   • Additional funding for hoop house building? Investor willing to create cooperative – dollars are more available than we realize – focus on health aspects of projects
   • LOVE and FAITH initiative – Literacy, Opportunities, Voice, Environmental – Forestry, Agriculture, Innovation, Technology, Health
   • Mary Glass – suggest that we keep conversation going, create videos, do webinar
   • Kristen – Senator Taylor, we are 15 minutes over time.

1. 2016 Calendar of Meetings. Bi-Monthly Third Thursday. 9:00am-11:00am
   1. Thursday, 15 September, 2016 – 16^th St Community Health Center
   2. Thursday, 17 November, 2016 – Body and Soul Healing Arts Center

Additional Notes from the meeting outside of the Agenda

• Mary Glass – what steps are we taking to ensure diversity in representation on policy committee, minutes from past meetings – board meetings and full meetings – make them available, how important is attendance to those sitting on executive committee
• Nya Taryor – we are seeking involvement of people and membership who are actively engaged and working with us on committees –
• Mary Glass – spoke with Stephanie multiple times – group is evolving – is there outreach mechanism (i.e. web site)
• Nya Taryor – Web site contains announcements of events –
• Paulette Flynn – publishing minutes on web site – approval of minutes – as we evolve, the public record is the minutes on the web
• Getting minutes out there helps people understand what we are about
• Suggestion to audio record meetings and post audio on web site