Meeting Minutes from Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition 9.3.2015

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Sacramento Urban Agricu lture Coali t ion Meeting www.sacurbanag.org

9/3/2015, 10:00 a.m.

Breathe Cali fornia Big Conference Room ,

909 12th St, Sacramento, CA 95814

Sacramen to, CA 95814

Contact: Matt Read, 503-302-5408

Goals:

Prepare for UAIZ workshop and application period

Highlight needs for Law Bites Workshop

Update on County Process

Agenda

1.

Introductions (15 minutes)

1. Todd McPherson – Luther Burbank Garden and Food Policy Coordinator (Full

time!)

2. David de la Pena – UC Davis

3. Ilena Montanez – Alchemist Public Policy Intern

4.

Molly Wright – Sacramento Air District

5. Glen Destatte – Sac Veg Society, ECOS member org, California State

Grange

6. Christine Tien – Cal Endow

7.

John Tan – LSNC

8. Paul Towers - PAN

2. County Update (30)

1. Animal Husbandry Concerns Redux

2.

Jennifer Fearing and the Humane Society have expressed concerns about

animal husbandry, particularly in relation to the potential for animal slaughter.

3. Connected with Councilmembers,

4. Prepare to address or find ways to limit opposition

1. Strategy Meeting – Matt, Paul, Animal raisers, late September?

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5. CPAC Seat open

1. CPACs will be reviewing the urban ag ordinance

2. South Sacramento CPAC has an opening

1.

ATTACH MAP OF AREA

3.

Reach out to

1. Nyeela? From AGENA

2. Pacific Elementary contacts, go through Shannon Hardwick

3. Jenna Abbott – Mack Road Partnership Director

4. Effie Gant – in Carr’s district, connected

5. Mai Vang – Matt will

6. If you have contact with any of these folks please let Matt know

3. City UAIZ Workshop and Update

a. Workshop for UAIZ applications cohosted by City of Sacramento and SUAC

Wed. 9/9 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. 300 Richards Boulevard, Sacramento, CA,

United States 2nd Floor, Conference Room 221

b.

Water hookup requirement discussion

1. Department of utilities representative there

2. Effie Gant

3. Outreach to Lemon Hill owner

c.

Translation: Services4. Maps – via David

1.

Mapping project has been going on for a few months

2. 2 datasets

1. Weed abatement

2. Overhead satellite imagery

3. Merged the maps into the following link:

1.

CALL TO ACTION2. Log onto this map and check for any urban agriculture

sites/projects you know about, and add them! Use the

different colored tags to designate whether its active,

commercial, etc.



3. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zili5uSTvvX8.keew9H7gQElI

&usp=sharing

4. Increasing the participatory potential of the maps

1. Difficult questions arise

1.

What is the purpose?

2.

Who does this serve?

2. People can help identify lots with potential

3. Questions to ask in a form

1. What is there?

2. Who owns it? Who runs it?

3. Is there water?

4. School gardens are a huge part of the map

5. Maps are important data for the 6 month review

6. Code for America

3. Need programming help

1. Schedule meeting with hackerlab representatives, open data

2.

Anybody want to be there?

4. Do we have total numbers of vacant lots

1. How much does SHRA own?

2.

Can SHRA volunteer their ownership data?3. Lets update the vacant lot dataset to get a baseline measure

4. Brandon Pugh – Code for America

2. Law Bites

1. Date: September 22nd, 6:00 p.m. at California State Grange, 3830 U St.

Sacramento

1. Oak Park Neighborhood Association – 1st Thursday Nights

2.

Sac City School Board - Meetings2. Christine - Fruitridge Elementary School

1. Has office space for community groups opening up, will be a few

months before its ready to house orgs.

2. Added agenda items

1.

Glenn – PEA Project

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1. Crocker Art Museum is running a “Block by Block” program in the

neighborhoods.

2. Opportunities for tabling, as well as art-oriented projects that can, but

don’t have to, involve food.

1.

3 events in Council Districts 2, 5, and 8

2. Big events – Looking to get thousands of attendees

3. Looking for venues

1. Luther Burbank

1. Burbank Garden shuts down for the season

soon.

2. Disadvantage: 7/8 border

2. Pannell Center

4. Veg Society

5. Announcements (10)

1. Garden to every school, February 27/28

2. Farm to Every Fork, September 12th St.

3. October 24th Work Day at Burbank Urban Garden

1. Saturday!

2. Bring a crew

Adjourn

Documents

Meeting Minutes from Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition 9.3.2015