Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required.
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Amending Section 33.52 of the Madison General Ordinances to modify the composition of the Food Policy Council.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance makes minor changes in the composition of the Food Policy Council to provide for greater flexibility in appointments.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subdivision (a) of Subsection (2) entitled "Membership; Terms" of Section 33.52 entitled "Food Policy Council" of the Madison General Ordinance is amended to read as follows:
"(a) The FPC shall consist of twenty-three (23) members appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Common Council; except that the representative of the Madison Metropolitan School District shall be appointed by the Superintendent of the School District. Three (3) of the members shall be alderpersons; aldermanic appointees shall serve a term expiring concurrent with their term as alders. Nineteen (19) of the remaining members shall be adult citizen appointees; adult citizen appointees shall serve a term of three years expiring on October 1st in the third year following appointment, except the term of the member of the Community Gardens Committee shall expire with his or her term on the Community Gardens Committee. One (1) member shall be a youth member less than nineteen (19) twenty-four (24) years of age when appointed and shall serve a term of one year, expiring on June July 310, and shall not count against the nineteen (19) adult citizen members. All vacancies shall be filled by appointment of the Mayor, subject to Common Council approval, for a term filling out the remainder of the vacated members' term."
2. Subsection (3) entitled "Composition" of Section 33.52 entitled "Food Policy Council" of the Madison General Ordinance is amended to read as follows:
"(3)" Composition. The adult citizen membership shall be composed as follows: one (1) member shall be a representative from the City of Madison Community Gardens committee, one (1) shall represent a direct-market producer, one (1) shall be a food-access advocate, one (1) shall represent or volunteer at a food bank, one (1) shall be a representative from a health care provider, one (1) shall be a representative of the Madison Metropolitan School District, one (1) shall be a representative from a neighborhood development group or organization group one (1) shall be a local restaurateur, one (1) shall represent a small or mid-sized retailer, one (1) shall be a sustainable agriculture advocate one (1) shall be a representative from or an advocate for an urban farm, one (1) shall be employed by an accredited university or college as an expert in food and/or agricultural systems, one (1) shall be an employee of UW-Extension. and one (1) shall represent a wholesale producer.
The remaining five (5) nine (9) adult members shall represent any of the following categories, groups, or organizations: a community-supported agriculture organization, a consumer group, an economic development entity, an environmental advocate, a food bank, a farmers' market, a food cooperative, a food processing company, a mobile food vendor or retailer, a neighborhood development organization, a religious organization, a school district, a school food and/or nutrition expert, a staff member from a youth group organization, a sustainable agriculture advocate, or a sitting member of a city or county committee that advises on food-related policy, including, but not limited to the Dane County Food Council or the Madison and Dane County Board of Health, or a representative from any of the other organizations listed above and making up the balance of the FPC. The youth member may but is not required to represent any of the interests set out in this ordinance.
The Chairperson of the Food Policy Council shall be the Mayor or his or her designee, who may fulfill any of the citizen membership requirements above. The designee shall serve a three-year term beginning October 1st of the year of appointment."