To be introduced by Lisa Bhopalsingh, Manager, Community Planning.
Purpose: To provide the Health and Housing Task Force with the Emergency Food and Nutrition Strategy along with implementation actions for the Task Force to consider recommending to Council.
Presentation:
- Karin Kronstal, Social Planner.
Recommendation: That the Health and Housing Task Force recommend that Council:
- endorse the Emergency Food and Nutrition Strategy as formal stakeholder input into the REIMAGINE NANAIMO process; and,
- support the creation of a Nanaimo Food Policy Council as an independent, arms-length body that would continue collaborative work to strengthen the local food system and request that Staff bring forward a report on how the City can facilitate this work.