Meeting Information
Monday, July 20, 2020
6:30pm to 8:30pm
1006 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Or attend virtually:
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- Action Item: Administrative Items
- Determine quorum of members, agenda approval
- Approval of June meeting minutes
- Budget overview:
- $4,816.75 remaining for 2020
- Upcoming 2020 Conferences:
- National Food Policy Conference: July 28 & 29, online, $75/person
- Urban Food Systems Symposium: October, online, $100/person
- Public Comment
- Guest: Bob Tryanski, Director of Behavioral Health Projects, Douglas County
- Adaptive vs. Technical Work
- Action Item: Consider approving FPC Statement of Commitment on equity and racial justice in the food system
- What avenues and audiences does the FPC want to communicate this commitment to?
- Working Group Break Out: Fall Food System Tour Planning
- Narrow down each group’s goals and message
- What is the best format for each component?
- Wrap-up and Next Steps
- Reflect on where technical vs. adaptive challenges emerge among your working group priorities
- Member Updates
- Adjourn
Next Meeting: August 17, 2020, 6:30pm to 8:30pm | Location: Zoom and TBD
In attendance: Marlin Bates, Tamara Cash, Michele Dillon, Dietrich Earnhart, Melissa Freiburger, Elizabeth Keever, Tyler Lindquist, Jeffrey Maiden, Christina Ostmeyer, Rolf Petermann, Michael Steinle
Absent: Sarah Hartsig, Heather McPeek, Scott Thellman, Luke Ulrich
Guest: Bob Tryanski, Director of Behavioral Health Projects
Staff: Kim Criner Ritchie
- Action Item: Administrative Items
- Determine quorum of members, agenda approval
- Motion to approve by Liz, second by Michelle. Motion passes.
- Approval of June meeting minutes
- Motion to approve by Michael, second by Marlin. Motion passes.
- Budget overview:
- $4,816.75 remaining for 2020
- Upcoming 2020 Conferences:
- National Food Policy Conference: July 28 & 29, online, $75/person
- Melissa and Tyler registered.
- Urban Food Systems Symposium: October, online, $100/person
- Registration ends September 18.
- Motion to approve sending up to 5 members by Michele, second by Michael. Motion passes.
- National Food Policy Conference: July 28 & 29, online, $75/person
- Determine quorum of members, agenda approval
- Public Comment
- Guest: Bob Tryanski, Director of Behavioral Health Projects, Douglas County
- Adaptive vs. Technical Work
- Video takeaways:
- Tamara: think about how race and poverty intersect with access to nutritious food.
- Dietrich: interest in conducting more experiments.
- Christina: Need more evaluation of our work if we are to be adaptive and not reactive.
- Bob: Acting experimentally is about questioning/testing assumptions.
- Other concerns voiced: rural access, scaling models appropriate for Douglas County, early childhood nutrition access.
- Marlin: FPC work is to identify hurdles, often by engaging public, learning what our community would want. How do we experiment in this way? How we do our work?
- “Why? Why? Why?” exercise:
- What did you notice as you drilled down?
- Tyler: purpose became even broader and complex adaptive challenge.
- Christina/Dietrich: opposite experience: became simpler and clear.
- Jeffrey/Melissa: what are the measurable goals? Outcomes toward the impact is important. How are we actively working to change the circumstance?
- Other reflections:
- Opportunity to reflect on why this work is important to each and if there’s shared values among you/your concerns.
- Act experimentally, and use this exercise to discover common thread of communication and message behind tour.
- Purpose must be clear.
- This exercise forced us to imagine. We have a crisis of imagination of how to creatively and innovatively deal with these challenges.
- Tamara: is there a way to set up policy safety nets to support food system workers?
- What did you notice as you drilled down?
- Action Item: Consider approving FPC Statement of Commitment on equity and racial justice in the food system
- What avenues and audiences does the FPC want to communicate this commitment to?
- Motion to approve with the addition of the word “education” to third action item by Dietrich, second by Jeffrey. Motion passes.
- What avenues and audiences does the FPC want to communicate this commitment to?
- Working Group Break Out: Fall Food System Tour Planning
- Narrow down each group’s goals and message
- In absence of sufficient meeting time, Kim will follow up with chairs and tour planning committee outside of meeting.
- Narrow down each group’s goals and message
- Wrap-up and Next Steps
- Reflect on where technical vs. adaptive challenges emerge among your working group priorities.
- More specific to the adjusted focus Bob took with the exercise, take time to reflect on shared purpose discussions in your groups.
- Reflect on where technical vs. adaptive challenges emerge among your working group priorities.
- Member Updates
- Adjourn
- Motion to adjourn by Tamara, second by Christina
Next Meeting: August 17, 2020, 6:30pm to 8:30pm | Location: Zoom and TBD
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