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From YouTube: City Fresh Foods Tasting - 9/16/22
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Boston Mayor Michelle is joined by Mary Skipper, incoming Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, for a City Fresh Foods tasting at the Haley Pilot School in Roslindale.
A
A
C
A
These
are
the
fruits
of
that
labor
of
seeing
a
local
company
step
in
to
deliver
on
the
promise
of
healthy
eating,
local
jobs
and
a
product
that
all
of
our
community
members
enjoy.
We've
established
higher
standards
for
the
food
that
we
feed
our
young
people
and
the
companies
and
partners
that
make
that
food
a
core
tenant
has
been
transparency,
assessing
all
of
the
ingredients
and
the
procurement
practices.
A
We
also
have
a
long-standing
partnership
with
the
urban
farming
institute
in
matapan.
Where,
a
few
months
ago,
we
announced
that
the
city
is
investing
in
an
office
of
food
justice
and
grow
boston,
to
really
deepen
our
efforts
to
see
more
of
that
that
impact
with
our
local
food
systems.
We
also
partner
with
cerro
a
local
latino
owned
composting
worker
owned
co-op
based
in
dorchester
and
other
local
businesses
owned
by
people
of
color,
in
the
many
ways
that
we
process
deliver
and
prepare
foods
in
this
city.
A
So
I
know
sheldon
will
say
more,
but
I'm
going
to
brag
a
little
bit
on
behalf
of
him
as
well.
The
majority
of
city,
fresh
employees,
are
boston
residents.
That
means
that
the
people
feeding
our
communities
are
from
our
communities,
and
that
is
an
incredible
fact.
Many
of
the
workforce
represented
our
immigrants,
our
people
of
color
and
the
city
fresh
also
uses
an
employee
stock
ownership
plan
model,
meaning
that,
as
this
local
business
succeeds,
the
wealth
contributes
right
to
the
workers
and
their
families
as
well,
and
so
I
had
a
delicious
lunch.
A
Here
is
one
way
where
the
city
is
able
to
just
invest
a
little
bit
more,
to
make
sure
that
everybody
has
a
bit
more
to
give
a
bit
more
excitement
and
learning
a
bit
more
energy
when
they
return
home
and
connectedness
with
the
overall
economy
of
our
city.
So
this
is
truly
a
win-win-win
for
all
of
us
and
I'm
so
grateful
to
not
only
see
but
now
taste
the
the
results
of
that
and
thank
you
so
much
to
city,
fresh
foods
and
all
of
our
partners
here.
E
E
E
My
entire
career
and
my
uncle
drove
the
food
truck,
and
so
I
heard
and
saw
every
day
how
hard
caf
folks
work,
so
I
just
want
to
just
give
a
big
shout
out
to
them
and
tell
them
how
much
we
appreciate
in
the
boston
public
schools
their
support,
their
help,
denver
shelley
is
here.
I
just
want
to
recognize
her
and
for
her
leadership
in
our
food
nutrition
department
as
well.
E
How
lucky
are
we
to
have
city
fresh
here
in
our
backyard?
You
know
I
had
an
opportunity
to
talk
to
sheldon
for
a
while.
I
want
to
thank
you
publicly,
you're,
a
parent
but,
most
importantly,
you're
helping
to
make
a
vision
come
true.
You
know
the
idea
that
there's
an
expert
team
designing
food-
that's
nutritious,
that's
hot!
That
is
culturally
relevant
for
our
students
that
has
a
menu
of
nothing
I've
ever
experienced,
even
in
some
of
the
food
that
you
get
delivered
to
your
home.
E
That's
the
quality
that
we're
talking
about,
and
that's
because
city
fresh,
which
is
a
roxbury
based
black
owned
company
here
that
are
parents,
in
fact,
from
the
boston
public
schools.
They
are
making
that
difference
every
day
in
that
commitment,
so
a
huge
shout
out
to
you
to
your
staff.
Thank
you
so
much
for
that
to
council
flaherty
for
your
work
on
the
good
purchasing
program,
the
idea
that
is
in
our
city,
that
our
school
district
can
be
a
part
and
a
partner
on
something
as
important
as
good
and
just
and
healthy
food
and
food
system.
E
F
F
This
is
a
great
day
so
made
my
day
to
come
from
city
hall
to
sit
with
these
kids
to
have
a
little
lunch
and
to
see
those
smiles,
that's
that
which
makes
this
job
so
important
and
so
fun.
For
me,
and
for
the
other,
electeds
and
officials
up
here
and
so
great
day,
obviously
for
this
school
and
for
the
schools
across
the
city
so
enjoy
many
more
meals
to
come
and
best
of
luck.
F
They
can
see
it
before
they
open
the
wrapper
so
that
the
meal
doesn't
go
to
waste.
They
can
get
one
that
is
appropriate
for
them
and
then
they
could
actually
pass
it
on
to
something
that's
appropriate
to
someone
else
so
again
attention
to
detail.
That's
obviously
an
important
thing
that
we
appreciate
and
respect
and
best
of
luck
as
this
contract
moves
forward.
We're
we're
grateful
for
your
partnership
and
without
further
ado
sheldon
from
city
fresh.
G
G
You
know
this
company
actually
came
out
of
education,
so
that's
a
unique
link
and
it
was
teaching
my
partner
founder
brother
was
teaching
kids
to
get
their
geds.
They
were
a
little
bit
older
and
it
was
about
you
know,
learning
business
at
the
same
time
and
that's
how
the
food
kind
of
evolved
into
a
food
business.
G
G
G
So
that's
one
of
the
biggest
things
that
you
know
that
that
happened
out
of
this
contract.
For
us,
our
mission
is
really
health
and
wealth
and
education,
obviously
health,
getting
it
to
those
who
need
from
scratch
diverse
as
fresh
and
local
as
we
can,
but
also
creating
wealth
at
city
fresh.
We
have
the
ownership
plan,
which
we
have,
I
think
30
employees
who
are
owners,
which
is
about
30
of
the
company,
I'm
an
employee
owner
too.
So
a
majority
of
the
company
is
employee,
owned
with
that.
G
So
our
goal
here,
though,
is
to
really
get
local
fresh
food
to
folks
and
increase
participation.
Our
goal
is
to
get
more
kids
eating
food
and
that's
what
we
will
you
know
commit
to
you.
I
think
the
percentage
is
around
43
participation
right
now
before
we
came
in
so
we're
going
to
guarantee
that
that
number
is
going
to
go
up
and
that's
you
know
the
number
one
and
the
other
thing
I'd
like
to
add
is
that
we're
going
to
open
this
up?
G
Sorry,
I
mean
it
is
a
big
project,
and
so
we
need
the
stakeholders
and
those
who
have
participated
before
in
this
to
to
make
this
work
and
even
new
folks,
because
to
me
it's
it's
all
of
us
and
we
can't
do
it
alone,
so
you
know
I
want
to
put
that
out
there
too,
as
one
of
the
things
that
we
promised
to
do
so
without
more.
I
just
want
to
thank
the
mayor
here
for
your
support
and
again
vision
and
local.
G
You
know
very
important,
very
important
and
sticking
to
that
superintendent
skipper
welcome
aboard
and
it
was
good
connecting
today
because
I
think
we
have
a
lot.
You
know
in
common
and
principal
sullivan,
thank
you
for
hosting
us
today
and
the
faculty.
You
know
you
know.
Food
is
a
tough
business,
but
so
is
education.
G
So
I
think
there's
some
similarities
there.
It
never
stops
and
it
you
know,
can
be
a
grind.
So
I
want
to
thank
all
faculties.
I
want
to
thank
my
team
who
is
grinding
it
out
because
I'm
not
out
there
delivering
or
cooking
I'm
out
here
talking
to
you
guys
and
sitting
down,
but
you
know
it's
a
grind,
so
I
want
to
thank
you
know:
food
service
workers
need
to
be
heroes.
You
know
within
the
schools,
you
know
it's.
G
It's
been
overlooked,
it's
been
stepped
on,
but
no
they're
putting
the
health
and
and
the
food
into
everybody's
body.
So
it
needs
to
be
elevated.
We
need
to
elevate
that
you
know
and
then,
of
course,
the
students
you
know,
what
is
it
about?
It's
about
you
guys
it's
about
you
and
making.
You
know
because
you're
the
future,
and
we
need
to
be
doing
right
by
you,
so
that's
the
commitment
from
us,
so
I
just
want
to
thank
you
guys
thank
the
students
and
thank
everybody,
and
also
my
man
over
here.
G
G
If
students
want
to
do
tours,
you
know
even
at
higher
educational
levels
where
they
can
come
and
see
a
company,
that's
doing
things
in
the
community.
It's
not
only
driving
and
cooking
right.
You
know
we
have.
You,
know:
administrative
jobs,
you
know
high
level,
culinary
jobs,
procurement,
jobs,
marketing
jobs,
contract
jobs.
So
it's
a
whole
career
path
that
that
we
keep
here
in
boston,
so
you're
all
welcome.
Thank
you.
G
C
There
you
go
well,
thank
you
for
coming
to
the
haley
day,
six,
I
believe
of
school
yeah,
and
so
we
are
here.
I
really
appreciate
you
coming
choosing
to
come
here
to
the
haley
to
to
celebrate
this
incredible
partnership.
Thank
you
to
mayor
wu
and
superintendent,
skipper,
sheldon
and
counselor
flaherty,
and
welcome
guests
for
choosing
to
partner
and
create
healthy
and
delicious
food
options
for
our
students.
C
C
C
Minutes
kenicha,
under
the
guidance
of
miss
mocha
teen,
spent
time
in
her
fourth
grade
year,
learning
about
the
importance
of
good
nutrition
and
learning
for
all
students.
During
this
unit
of
study,
kenichi
and
her
grade,
four
peers
explored
the
data
from
the
mayor's
food
access
agenda
to
learn
about
fractions
and
decimals,
while
studying
the
importance
of
food
justice
in
our
community
and
the
need
for
high
quality
options
for
food
in
schools
that
are
relevant
to
students,
their
families
and
their
lives.
C
This
learning
was
then
turned
into
letters
and
shared
with
officials
to
promote
this
change.
We
are
incredibly
grateful
that
cityfresh
in
this
partnership
is
part
of
the
change
that
we
have
wished
for.
So
I'm
going
to
welcome
to
the
stage
kenichi
synaphils
to
share
a
little
bit
about
her
experience
from
last
year.
D
In
fourth
grade,
we
learned
that
forty
thousand
five
hundred
students
and
bps
rely
on
school
food.
Twenty
four
thousand
three
hundred
students
are
not
eating
school
food
food
is
important
because
it
helps
your
health.
Knowing
the
ingredients
could
help
kids
want
to
eat
it.
More
kids
do
better
in
school
when
they
have
enough
to
eat.
I
think
city.
First
foods
is
going
to
help
our
community
a
lot
because
more
kids
are
going
to
eat
school
food.
When
I
looked
at
pictures,
I
said
that
looks
like
fury
at
home.
B
A
A
It
just
shows
how
much
potential
is
still
out
there.
Imagine
if
we
got
every
one
of
our
hospitals,
that's
serving
meals
to
hundreds
of
thousands
of
patients
and
visitors,
our
universities
serving
students
and
faculty
members.
If
we
could
all
get
on
the
same
page,
which
was
part
of
the
vision
of
this
original
good
food
purchasing
program.
A
Imagine
how
many
jobs
we
could
create
locally
right
here
when
we
first
started
on
this
effort
several
years
ago,
I
remember
learning
about
the
journey
of
our
local
food,
the
lunches
that
were
served
to
young
people,
and
there
had
been
some
requirements
where
you
could.
If
you
used
locally
produced
ingredients,
you
would
have
a
leg
up
in
the
contract,
but
what
ended
up
happening
was
a
national
multinational
corporation
that
had
the
contract
would
purchase
fish
from
gloucester
or
some
of
our
local
fisher
fishing
industry
vendors.
A
Here
we
have
a
local
company,
that's
local
jobs,
great
labor
practices,
building
wealth
right
in
our
neighborhoods,
I
couldn't
be
more
excited,
and
that
was
very
good,
barbecue
chicken
and
mac
and
cheese
and
green
beans.
So
I'm
excited
to
to
go
home
and
know
exactly
what
my
kids
are
getting
in
the
cafeterias
as
well.
Anyone
want
to
add
anything
on
that.
G
G
A
A
What
you
know
people
hadn't
had
that
before
I
quickly
learned
not
to
talk
about
what
we
would
eat
at
home
for
dinner
and
instead
would
just
ask
my
parents
for
peanut
butter,
jelly
or
or
or
get
the
cold
sort
of
plasticky
pizza
at
lunch,
so
as
not
to
get
teased
so
to
this
element
is
not
just
about
making
sure
we
are
kids,
are
eating
and
and
feeling
familiar.
It
is
about
sharing
with
all
of
our
student
population.
A
G
Right,
it's
not
that
it's
not
that
many
meals!
You
know
you
know
ten
thousand
lunch-
I
don't
know.
Maybe
I
don't
know
deb
could
probably
give
more
numbers
than
I
can.
You
know
you
know
five
to
eight
breakfast
after
school,
three
to
four
thousand
meals
a
day,
so
it's
it's
going
out
over
how
many
sites
are
going
out
over
164
sites.
So
you
know,
logistically
you
gotta,
you
know,
pack
up
trucks
and
buy
route,
got
to
get
them
to
a
school
at
a
certain
time.
You
got
to
get
them
daily.
G
B
G
We
waited,
you
know
we
waited
a
long
time
before
bidding.
You
know
to
try
to
be.
You
know
ready
for
such
an
event,
and
you
know
so
it
wasn't
something
you
know
because
we've
been
here
28
years,
mostly
feeding
in
the
senior
market
or
charter
schools,
but
an
interesting
comment
about
menu,
because
we
have
a
variety
of
menus
for
our
different
markets
and
we're
always
you
know
what
do
we
name?
These
menus
school
is
different
because
it's
one
menu,
and
so
we
have
this
many
we
call
traditional.
So
what
is
american
traditional
right?
G
So
to
your
point
now
you
know
I've
been
like
how
do
we?
You
know
what
is
traditional?
Maybe
we
have
the
a
caribbean
meal
on
there,
an
asian
meal
you
know,
and
that
is
now
traditional
right,
but
anyway
it's
an
interesting
thing
that
we
go
back
and
forth
with
versus
having
all
these
separate
menu
items,
but
maybe
I'll
be
ready.
Now
we
might
be
ready
soon.
B
E
So
I
mean
the
link
is
undeniable.
I
think
what
we
see
is
when
students
don't-
and
so
it's
you
know,
anger
is
a
real
thing.
When
students
are
hungry,
they
can't
it's
just
like
us.
They
can't
focus.
They
come
in
they're
thinking
about
not
having
eaten.
They
don't
feel
well
physically.
That
affects
their
attention.
Their
ability
like
to
regulate
themselves,
there's
lots
of
studies
that
suggest,
like
the
correlation
of
you,
need
to
have
healthy,
good,
varied
food
and
that
students
need
to
eat
those
portions.
E
E
A
B
E
I
wish
I
could
but
they're
both
deceased
all
good,
but
I
can.
I
can
say
that
I
am
sure
they
are
smiling
down,
knowing
that
I
recognize
them
today
and
knowing
that
I
recognize,
more
importantly,
all
of
the
people
that
are
doing
the
jobs
they
did
and
doing
them.
So
well
here
at
tahily
and
districtwide.