Motion Sheet - 9/20/2022Item F2
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MOTION SHEET
CITY COUNCIL of SALT LAKE CITY
TO: City Council Members
FROM: Executive Director
DATE: September 20, 2022
RE: RESOLUTION: Sustainability holding account, Community Food Assessment
MOTION 1 (adopt);
Please also look to MOTION 1A
I move the Council adopt a resolution approving the satisfaction of the conditions on the $125,000 in the
Department of Sustainability’s budget so that it may be used to conduct a proposed Community Food
Assessment, with the following legislative intents. The legislative intents are not conditions of the funds being
released.
1. The department reports to the Council on collaboration opportunities with other entities doing or
charged with doing food security or food equity work, such as the Utah State University Extension
Service; and
2. The department works actively with those entities to determine and report whether future data
gathering, analysis, benchmarking and other outcomes and guideposts of projects like the Community
Food Assessment could instead be performed by entities other than the City in order to both continue to
build on the foundation that the City has established and relieve the City taxpayers of funding what is
currently a regionally beneficial service.
MOTION 1A (adopt)
Potential additional motion, based on Council comments during work session:
I move that the Council express its intent to review the findings of the Sustainability Department on the
potential for collaboration with other governmental entities, prior to the Council voting to fund additional food
security staffing and projects in the City General Fund Budget, with an eye toward future reliance on the levels of
government that are officially charged with and funded to accomplish food-security and food equity work.
The Council encourages the Administration to proactively work with the State as the 2022 Legislation and on-
going funding framework for food security and food equity is implemented, to increase the likelihood that the
State structure:
- Will be equipped to provide information, data, analysis and potential strategy support that is relevant
and useful locally, as well as State-wide;
- Will maximize the effective investment of Federal, State and County tax dollars to directly enhance the
ability of organizations to provide food and services to the public in need of those services;
- Will incorporate important local issues in the established formal reporting to the State Legislature.
- That City taxpayers receive maximum benefit from the Federal, State and County taxes they pay.
The Council recognizes that the collaboration will not be successful for Salt Lake City Taxpayers if the provision
of localized data is not an established part of the system.
MOTION 2 (reject)
Do not release $125,000 for the food equity data project and express the intent to formally address the funding
in an upcoming budget amendment.