Item 2. Staff Briefing on Food Plan - April 2025 — original pdf

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Austin-Travis County Food Plan ATCFPB April 2025 – Staff Update City of Austin Food Plan Updates Report back to Council in Spring 2025 ● City staff provided a Memo to Council in March 2025 ○ Updates on Strategy progress including defined leadership roles and responsibilities for implementation of the various strategies within the Plan ○ Funding needs in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget for investment in and implementation of the Plan and to identify strategy priorities to be included as part of the next bond package ○ Updates on a Food Plan Dashboard ○ Updates on an Implementation Collaborative Climate,Water, Environment, Parks Committee (Austin City Council) ● City staff provided a summary of the Food Plan Memo to the CWEP Council Committee on April 1st 2025 ○ What is being done to start food production on Public Land ■ We are working on Asset Maps and will share those when complete ■ We are working with Watershed to explore farming on floodplain property and PARD to support development of John Trevino Park ○ What is being done to coordinate work between the City and the County ■ We are working on a contract and will have more info to Council shortly (ILA) ○ What is being done to coordinate inter-departmental work to implement the Food Plan ■ While there is no Department of Food, we are looking to the Climate Implementation Plan structure to explore how a similar structure could be created. Dashboard Preview - Now LIVE Implementation Collaborative ● City and County staff are developing an Interlocal Agreement to support a Food Plan implementation collaborative (Strategy 9.1) ● Staff are scoping and negotiating specifics and hope to have an Interlocal Agreement complete in spring 2025 ● RFP for support of an implementation collaborative will be released in mid-2025 Food Plan Implementation Convening ● May 9th at PDC ● Tentative Agenda: ○ Office of Climate Action & Resilience Updates: Memo & Dashboard, Budget, Food Policy Board Recommendations Implementation Collaborative Request for Proposals Food and Climate and Equity Grants Question & Answers Partner Updates ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ Next Steps: ■ ■ Fall meeting to introduce contractor Dashboard updates Travis County Food Plan Updates Travis County Parks Comprehensive Planning More community engagement opportunities open now - please participate! ● Second round of community engagement started April 12th and ends May 19th ● Public Workshops coming soon: ○ April 29th 12:00-1:00 p.m. ○ April 30th 6:00-7:00 p.m. ● https://outdoorengage.mysocialpinpoint.com/travis Communicating with Court Members Board Members appointed by Travis County Commissioners Court: It’s always a good time to communicate with the Court member (and/or their staff) who appointed you! ● Have final versions of Board-approved letters been shared with Court members? ● Please let me know how I can support you. Thank You! Travis County Environmental Quality: Sustainability Programs www.austintexas.gov/food /austinsustainability