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City Council Meeting: July 27, 2010 Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER 10516 (CCS)
(City Council Series}
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA CONFIRMING THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO
PROMOTING
HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLES THROUGHOUT THE
COMMUNITY OF SANTA MONICA
WHEREAS, in 2006, the League of California Cities; the Cities, Counties
and Schools Partnership; and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy
launched the "Healthy Eating Active Living Cities Campaign" (Campaign); and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Campaign is to encourage local
governments to adopt and implement land use, capital improvement, and
wellness policies that promote nutritious eating and active lifestyles in their
communities; and
WHEREAS, the City has long been committed to these principles as
evidenced 6y the Land Use and Circulation Element, Open Space Element,
Community Forest Management Plan, Parks and Recreation Master Plan, the
Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan, the Community Priority of Recreation and
Active Living, as well as, our ongoing support of recreation programs, farmers'
markets, community gardens and employee wellness programs; and
V~/HEREAS, the City desires to further demonstrate our oommitment to these
principles by adapting this resolution that aoknowledges our current efforts and future
plans to promote healthy lifestyles throughout the oommunity of Santa aniaa.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COtJNClL. OF THE CITY OF SANTA tviONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Bunt Environment. The City will make every attempt to cantinas
and expand our efforts to create a built environment that supporks an active lifestyle far
residents by:
recreation facilities sa that mast residents are within walking distance of a
park ar recreation facility;
Increasing community aooess to indoor and outdoor public facilities through
faint use agreements with schools and other partners;
Enhancing recreation facilities to provide a vast array of recreation
programs to residents;
Looating grocery stares, farmers' markets and community gardens across
the community so that al! residents have aaaess to healthy food; and
^ Avoiding a concentration of unhealthy foal providers -sash as fast foal
restaurants or liquor stares -within any one neighborhood or near school
properties to the extent permitted by law.
SECTION 2. Healthy Food Acoess. The City will oontihue to make every effork
to insure a!I residents have access to healthy food options by:
Supporting and enhancing the four weekly farmers' markets that serve
fresh, healthy and sustainable foods {~5°14 of Santa l~]onioa residents
access food from these markets; 24°IQ of market sales .are- to local
restaurants and local produce oompanies);
prospective gardeners with property owners willing to make yard space
available for gardens;
the importance of healthy eating {e.g., sponsoring quarterly lwibrary pane!
discussions on important dietlhealth issues, maintaining a collection of
books and media at the Library intended to promote good diet and active
living, holding healthy cooking cusses using farmers' market produce,
encouraging field trips for school age children to farmers` markets, initiating
a farmers' market salad bar program at all local schools, sponsoring
gardening and composting workshops, etc.}
Implementing our Sustainable City Plan goal of "increasing consumption of
fresh, locally produced, organic produce to promote public health and
minimize resource consumption and negative environmental impaots" which
includes:
o Adopting the Coo# Foods Pledge in October of 20t1~ that commits the
City to buy organic, buy local: reduce meat and dairy consumption,
reduoe processed foods. and avoid excess packaging;
o Encouraging the looal school district, community college, and public to
sign on to the Caol Foods Pledge;
o Implementing the Flealthy Foods Initiative {HFI} whereby food
concession leases for City owned properties ret~uire the concessionaire
to exercise best efforts to promote healthy and sustainable food
practices; and
0 Building on the HFI and creating a Sustainable Food Policy for alI
IUtunicipal operations that will ensure that food offered through City
facility concessionaires, City programs {e.g., senior, youth programs},
and City meetings and events is healthy and sustainable.
SECTEON 3. Employee Wellness. The City will make every effort to encourage a
healthy City workforce by.
Continuing to provide all employees with access to the Employee
Assistance Program free of charge;
Continuing to provide financial incentives to employees that bike or walk to
work through the Commuter Club;
Continuing to support the Bike{-7u Work Program that allows employees to
use City-owned bikes for transportation to meetings and appointments.
BECTIt?~4 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPRC7VEC3 AS Tt~ Ft7RlVi:
Adopted and approved this 27th day of July.
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 10516 (GCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council held on the 27th day of July, 2010, by the following vote:
Ayes: Gouncilmembers: Davis, Holbrook, McKeown, O'Day
Mayor Shriver
Noes: Gouncilmembers: None
Abstain: Gouncilmembers: None
Absent: Gouncilmembers: Bloom
Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor
ATTEST:
Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk