Goal 1: Enhance food system coordination and leadership

• 1.1: Create a full-time Food System Manager position
• 1.2: Create a “Kitchen Cabinet” within County government for internal collaboration
• 1.3: Establish a Food System Leadership Collaborative
• 1.4: Develop a food system resilience plan
• 1.5: Align food systems work with health, housing, and transportation services
• 1.6: Advocate for equitable state and federal food policies
• 1.7: Embed food goals in county planning documents (i.e., food in all policies)

Goal 2: Increase community engagement in the food system toward greater food sovereignty

• 2.1: Create a Resident Food Equity Advisory Council
• 2.2: Fund community-based organizations to train local leaders and co-create food justice projects

Goal 3: Maintain farmland, increase agricultural opportunities, and enhance farm viability

• 3.1: Provide affordable land, technical assistance, and funding for underserved farmers
• 3.2: Open public land for farming and support state land livestock grazing access
• 3.3: Simplify permitting and business support for farm operations
• 3.4: Support networks to connect farms with buyers and institutions
• 3.5: Maintain water access and agricultural water rates
• 3.6: Make the County’s Agricultural Resilience Incentive (ARI) grant program permanent

Goal 4: Build a strong regional food economy where communities and individuals prosper

• 4.1: Adopt the Good Food Purchasing Policy (GFPP)
• 4.2: Expand the Good Food Purchasing Policy (GFPP)
• 4.3: Further development of a community food hub
• 4.4: Facilitate commercial kitchen access for community programs and new food entrepreneurs
• 4.5: Reduce barriers for aspiring or new, small, local food entrepreneurs
• 4.6: Foster creation of food and agricultural cooperatives

Goal 5: Improve food security and public health through access to nutritious, culturally relevant, and affordable food

• 5.1: Increase SNAP enrollment and outreach
• 5.2: Invest in schools as anchors of community feeding
• 5.3: Assess current food access locations
• 5.4: Coordinate food distribution and tracking systems
• 5.5: Assess infrastructure and facility to ensure food insecure residents needs are met
• 5.6: Develop outreach service strategy to meet older adults’ needs
• 5.7: Ensure Meals on Wheels can maintain services and increase capacity

Goal 6: Expand food recovery and composting

• 6.1: Provide leadership for public education on food waste prevention and composting
• 6.2: Build capacity for residential and community-scale composting
• 6.3: Coordinate SB 1383 (food waste reduction) implementation across the county
• 6.4: Implement and increase SB 1383 and AB 1826 efficiency to reduce food waste
• 6.5: Explore integration of SB 1383 into other local food system components

Goal 7: Build a strong constituency for a strong regional food system by increasing food and agricultural education

• 7.1: Increase food and agricultural literacy through education program expansion
• 7.2: Launch campaigns highlighting the value of local farmers and climate-stewardship practices
• 7.3: Educate communities on the root causes of food system inequities