Sacramento Food

Policy Council Bylaws &

Mission
A boring presentation about a very important topic

Whats the
point of
bylaws?

Clarifying expectations, responsibilities

Chance to reflect priorities
Reference guide for participants

 Sac FPC Executive Committee reviewed by laws developed last

year

Process for
Bylaw
Development

Too vague to be of much use

Did not reflect actual day-to-day
Desire to incorporate concept of collective action into bylaws

Two drafts of bylaws reviewed and discussed by FPC

Looking for from SacFPC
Feedback on structure, communication standards
Is this helpful?

Mission,
Vision, Values

The mission of the Sacramento Food Policy Council is to propel

collective action toward an equitable and sustainable food system
by building alignment, advancing policies, and convening
advocates, policymakers, and organizations around a shared
agenda.

Mission,
Vision, Values

The mission of the Sacramento Food Policy Council is to propel

collective action toward an equitable and sustainable food
system by building alignment, advancing policies, and
convening advocates, policymakers, and organizations around
a shared agenda.
Intentional omissions
Sake of Brevity minimizing adjectives that describe values.

Reflection Questions:
Does this cover what you want to do? Does this miss anything?

 Visions
Environmental Vision: An equitable, ecologically sound food and

Mission,
Vision, Values

farming system in Sacramento County.

Organizational Vision: A community where all voices are engaged in

and respected in the processes, programs, and policymaking that
shapes the food system in Sacramento County.

Mission,
Vision, Values

Ensures access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food as a basic human right. The CAFPC supports policies and practices that
contribute to the establishment of food production and distribution systems that ensure easy access to healthy, sustainable, and
affordable food and potable water in all communities.

Reduces health and income disparities and the concentration of resources, while upholding the dignity, security, and self-determination
of all the communities it serves. The CAFPC supports equity enhancing policies and practices that strengthen opportunities and benefits
for disadvantaged farmers, workers, businesses and communities that experience disproportionate environmental, economic and health
hardships.

Makes the healthiest choice the easiest choice. The CAFPC supports policies and practices that promote health and result in food
environments that provide access to an abundance of affordable, fresh food choices, incentives to consume healthy, humane, local and
California grown foods.

Protects and restores our environment and vital natural resources, such as air, water, soil, biodiversity, climate, and wildlife and
eliminates waste wherever possible. The CAFPC supports policies and practices that prevent resource degradation, encourage waste
reduction and composting, promote conservation farming and reduce chemical inputs and energy use, while taking into consideration
the need to ensure abundant production and economically viable farm and food businesses.

Supports a vibrant and diverse food and agriculture economy comprised of businesses of multiple scales that sell into local, regional,
state, national and international markets, while creating strong linkages and benefits for our local and regional economies. The CAFPC
prioritizes policies and practices that strengthen local and regional food and agriculture businesses as an effective way to deliver
widespread economic benefits to small- and mid-scale producers, while achieving greater equity, health, access, consumer awareness
and long term connections between farmers and consumers.

Recognizes that a fair food system requires functional immigration and labor policies that uphold the dignity, safety, and quality of life
for all who work to feed us. The CAFPC supports policies and practices that ensure living wages for all food system workers, including
opportunities for advancement and ownership and that expand employment in the food sector.

Recognizes the vital role of education in preparing our youth to become the next generation of informed eaters, producers, and food
chain workers. The CAFPC supports policies and practices that build school food environments that are based on healthy, sustainably
produced, California grown food. We support curriculum that incorporates food literacy and garden-based education, promotes the links
between producers and consumers, health, food, and the environment and gives children, families and community leaders the resources
they need to learn about food production, nutrition, cooking and food economics.

Values our farmland and fisheries and the hard work and commitment of our farmers, fisherfolk, and ranchers. The CAFPC supports
policies and practices that will protect agricultural land, rivers and oceans and provide the necessary incentives, resources, technical
support and outreach to help beginning and existing producers to thrive economically while delivering healthy, affordable and
sustainably produced food.

Operates within a global food system that generates economic, political, and market realities that impact the choices of California
producers, food businesses, policymakers and consumers. The CAFPC recognizes the need to reform global policies in order to remove
barriers to a healthy, equitable, vibrant and sustainable California food system.

Requires that all food system stakeholders are engaged in the political process and in vigorous dialogue with each other at the local,
regional, state and national level. The CAFPC encourages and actively engages in this dialogue with members of government, community
organizations, academia, public health organizations, food producers, labor, food industry representatives, business, policy advocates
and the public to create meaningful and effective collaboration.

Mission,
Vision, Values

Intentionally bad Powerpoint slide

Point of referencing CAFPC Values is to align all California Food
Policy Council members

Mission,
Vision, Values

Feedback on Mission, Vision, adoption of CAFPC values?

Consensus to adopt? To review and gather feedback?

 Primary Changes

Bylaws
specifics

1.

Incorporating Collective Action Model into Structure

2.

Specific Descriptions of Working Group Activities, Expectations

3.

Voting and Participation Requirements

4.

Outlining a shared measurement system

Collective
Action
Structure

Collective Impact Model: the commitment of a group of important

actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a
specific social problem

Common agenda.
Continuous communication.
Mutually reinforcing activities
Shared measurement system.
Backbone support.

 Communication

Working Group
Activities,
Expectations,
Support

Specific Communication Standards

Steering Committee Participation

Activities
Policy, Systems, Environment
Where activities are not explicitly directed at Policy change, Working
Groups, with support from the Executive Board, should use the
opportunity to determine what Policy changes could help alleviate
barriers they encounter, keep the problem they seek to solve from
happening again, or to secure the gains their activity seeks.

Resources
Funding available for stipends, meeting budgets, support
Executive Board commitment to assist in facilitation

 Purpose
keep the agenda of the Council shared by all participants,

Requirements

Voting and
Participation
Requirements

An organization may only vote once on a given decision. Where one

organization has more than one participant or representative at a
Council meeting, those individuals will decide between them who
votes on behalf on the organization.
Membership may be conditionally granted, revoked, or suspended
by a 2/3 vote of the Council present.
an organization or individual acting on its behalf may vote only after
attending three Council or Working Group meetings.

Quorum
Simple majority

Shared
measurement
system

The measurement system used by the Council is Participation.

The Executive Board and Working Groups will track participation
in meetings, event attendance, and message board activity. This is
not just for the sake of grant reporting, but instead to understand
the efficacy of the activity measured.

 Policy Action
Because Policy change is at the heart of what we do, participants
recognize the importance of using our collective voice to support
and oppose legislation, ordinances, and local policies that impact
our mission.

Activities

a. Agency and organizational members of the Council are

encouraged to review their own internal policies for taking
positions on state, federal, and local policy.

b. When agency and organizational partners feel that a

position creates a conflict or that participating in a decision
would be inappropriate, Council members are encouraged
to abstain from a decision on the topic.

 Feedback welcome for 15 days (as outlined in new bylaws)

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