Spokane Food Policy Council: About Us

Spokane Food Policy Council Role

• Advise Spokane County government and regional cities on food-related policy issues
•  Focus on researching, developing, and promoting policy
• The SFPC forms relationships with other regional entities involved in the local food system

Membership

Membership Handbook

Focus

The Spokane Food Policy Council meets monthly to consider a wide-range of issues related to the local food system.  Topics may include:

• Updates on legislative activities
• Updates to governmental comprehensive plans
• Farmland preservation
• School lunch shaming
• Local food processing in or near urban areas
• Reducing food waste
• Institutional purchasing policies
• Incentives for grocery stores, farmers markets, food carts, vending machines, and other mobile vendors to locate in underserved communities

Download a one-page document detailing the mission and work of the Spokane Food Policy Council.

Timeline

2013

• The Spokane Food Policy Council (SFPC) was convened by then Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart, and first met in October 2013

2014-2015

• SFPC was engaged in council organizational/program development, research, and outreach

2016

• Finished The Spokane Regional Food System Inventory (FSI), a broad assessment of the regional food system evaluating our local food system

2017

• Worked with city planning staff to add food language to the City of Spokane’s Comprehensive Plan:
  • Social Health Implementation Matrix
  • Social Health Food Access and Security Policies
• Met with the Director of Nutrition Services from Spokane School District 81 to discuss “food shaming” and the benevolence meal fund being developed to pay meals for children who do not have money in their accounts to pay

Current Work

Goals:

1.  Develop a shared collaborative framework to advance Spokane County’s food security work
2. Develop a Food Security Action Plan to ensure equitable access to healthy foods

Successes

Ordinances:

• Revised Animal Law
• Market Garden Pilot Project
• Neonicotinoid Ban

Read the Spokane Food System Resolution

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Our Team

Program Director: Janell Harvey

Council members:

Shawna Beese	RN, PhD-candidate
Ian Cunningham	Individual
Kendra Dean	Catholic Charities
Gregg Deponte	Ola Aina Farms, Northeast Washington Soil Health Stewards
Shaneese Dunigan	Farmer, Courage to Grow Farms
Kathy Hedgcock	Second Harvest
Nils Johnson	Rural Resources
Julianne Kellogg	Crop Scientist in Human Nutrition
Kitty Kitzke	Individual
Chrys Ostrander	Spokane Community Gardens
Kylie Pybus	WSU Spokane County Extension
Jennifer Stutchell	Pantry Fuel, LLC
Natalie Tauzin	Spokane Food Security Coalition
Lori Van Anrooy	WSU Spokane County Extension
Stephanie Watson	River City Youth Ops
Melodi Wynne	Spokane Tribal Network

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