Food Policy Council (FPC) Meeting on Mon, March 21, 2022 - 6:30 PM

In attendance: Maggie Bornholdt, Sarah Chenoweth, Sheryl Cleavinger, Dietrich Earnhart, Cody Haynes, Ashley Hornberger, Tyler Lindquist, Emily Lysen, Laura McCulloch, Christina Ostmeyer

Absent: Tamara Cash, Margit Kaltenekker, Elizabeth Keever

Staff: Umut Bayramoglu, Kim Criner Ritchie, Jamie Hofling, Kathy Richardson

1. Administrative Items: 6:30-6:40pm
   • Determine quorum of members, agenda approval
     1. Motion to approve agenda by Ashley, second by Sarah
   • Approval of February 21 meeting minutes  
     1. Motion to approve minutes by Sarah, second by Ashley
   • Membership updates:
     1. Appointments: Margit Kaltenekker, K-State Extension Liaison
     2. Stepping down: Christina Ostmeyer
   • Meeting format and location planning
   • Shout outs
     1. Emily, Elizabeth, Tyler traveled to the capitol to meet with state representatives to discuss state-wide food system priorities, including reducing state sales tax on food
2. Public Comment: 6:40-6:45pm

3. Consider approving Letter of Support for County Vegetation Management Plan: 6:45-6:50pm
   • Motion to approve letter of support by Emily, second by Sarah

4. National Science Foundation Food Policy Council Study: 6:50-7:05pm
   • Researchers Dr. Saba Siddiki and PhD student, Graham Ambrose from Syracuse University will introduce the study and launch their engagement with the DCFPC.
     1. FPCs across the U.S. are becoming a driver of local food systems
     2. Their study seeks to understand how members come together to take action
     3. Important to give back to DCFPC by researching a question that will help us locally or internally
        1. Action: Working Groups discuss ideas in April meetings to consolidate for leadership to share with research team

5. Continued Development of Food System Plan Impact Report & Dashboard: 7:05-7:50pm
   • Project consultant, Eileen Horn, will deliver menu of indicators from national scan, next steps for working groups to identify community-relevant impacts.
     1. Action: working groups narrow down most important indicator sets for goal area. Populate storytelling opportunities in second spreadsheet. These are areas we know progress, connections, impacts have been made
     2. Make sure we highlight areas for improvement in the dashboard as well
     3. Motion by Cody to approve up to $1050 ($25 an hour for up to 6 hours) for consultation by 7 community coordinators on the food system dashboard indicators, second by Laura

6. Capacity and Work Priority Survey Results: 7:50-8:20pm

7. FPC Communications: 8:20-8:25pm
   • Connie can serve as staff liaison to help with communications strategy. Cody, Emily, Christina willing to help Laura with this effort.

8. Member Updates: 8:25-8:30pm
9. Adjourn
   • Motion to adjourn by Ashley, second by Christina

Next Meeting: April 18, 2022, TBD and Zoom @ 6:30pm.