Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #395FY0102
Food Recovery Program
Requester:		Patricia Robbins			Organization:		Farm Share, Inc.
Project Title:		Food Recovery Program			Date Submitted:		1/14/2002 11:53:08 AM
Sponsors:		Edward Bullard
Statewide Interest:
Reduces the need for provision of meal programs, statewide, aimed at the poor, working poor, elderly and disabled in the State by maximizing Florida's ability to receive surplus food from federal government.
Recipient:		Farm Share, Inc.			Contact:		Patricia Robbins
		300 North Krome Avenue, #12			Contact Phone:		(305) 246-3276
		Florida City 33034
Counties:		Dade
Gov't Entity:			Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):					Yes
Project Description:
The Food Recovery Program receives surplus food from the federal government and from local farmers, stores the produce, and ships it to various distribution points around the state in cooperation with local charitable organizations. The disabled, elderly, poor and working poor families are the recipients of the food.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
14 million pounds of food to be distributed at no charge to recipients statewide. Farm Share will use the $900,000 in Fiscal Year 2002-2003 to recover and distribute 5 million pounds of USDA/TEFAP entitlement commodities, to distribute as many bonus pounds of USDA/TEFAP commodities as is pracicial and available and to begin the project of creating a statewide network of distribution hubs that will enable us to reach more agencies at an exponential level of frequency and consistency throughout the State. As always, the food distributed will be made available free of chargeto agencies and recipients, and 100% accountability will be maintained.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:						$900,000
Identify items(s) in the FY 2002-03 Appropriations Bill to be reduced:
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Amount to be reduced:			$
Total cost of the project:			$22,900,000
Request has been made to fund:				Operations
What type of match exists for this project?					Local, Private, Federal
					In-Kind Amount:		$22,000,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?							Yes
	Fiscal Year:		2001-2002		Amount:		$900,000
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?							Yes
	Amount:		$900,000
	Purpose for future year funding:					Recurring Operations
	Will this be an annual request?						Yes
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?							Yes
	Agency:		Agriculture And Consumer Services, Department Of, And Commissioner Of Agriculture
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?							Yes
Is there a documented need for this project?							Yes
	Documentation:		Provided by many studies of poverty that have been done.
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?							Yes
	Hearing Body:		Miami-Dade County Legislative Delegation
	Meeting Date:		10/5/2001