City of Baltimore - File #: 14-0181R

• File #: 14-0181R
• Version: 0
• Name: Three Summer Meals
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 7/17/2014
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 7/17/2014
• Title: Three Summer Meals FOR the purpose of calling upon Baltimore's federal delegation to request that the Summer Food Service Program be strengthened and altered to allow sites to serve three nutritious meals a day during the summer.
• Sponsors: Nick Mosby, President Young, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, Brandon M. Scott, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Three Summer Meals

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/17/2014	0	City Council	Introduced
7/17/2014	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Mosby



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Three Summer Meals

FOR the purpose of calling upon Baltimore's federal delegation to request that the Summer Food Service Program be strengthened and altered to allow sites to serve three nutritious meals a day during the summer.
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Recitals

The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is a federallyfunded program that reimburses sponsoring organizations for meals. In 2013 in Baltimore City, over 1.2 million meals were served through this program at 608 citywide locations, including recreation centers, schools, mobile meals sites, and community and faith based sites.

In Baltimore City, 52% of children who eat a free or reduced price lunch during the school year also eat a summer meal.

The federal law that authorizes this program allows each site to serve only two meals, and specifies that the combination of those two meals may not be lunch and supper.

Through the Baltimore Partnership to End Childhood Hunger, housed at the Family League, Baltimore City has a strong infrastructure of summer meal sponsors, nonprofits, City and State agencies, faith based organizations, community groups, and elected officials, all of whom come together from August to July to maximize participation in the Summer Food Service Program. The Partnership collects, analyzes, and maps data; creates and disseminates outreach m...