[Electronic-lan] Fwd: Help Design our Food System Plan!

[Lawrence Assoc of Neighborhoods]

FYI

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From: <hschnoes at douglas-county.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:08 PM
Subject: Help Design our Food System Plan!
To: hschnoes at douglas-county.com


Dear Lawrence Neighborhood Leaders,



Please share the announcement below with your neighborhood groups about
upcoming community meetings to share findings and discuss actions/policies
to support our local food system. (Feel free to share with anyone else
you’re connected with who may be interested, too!)



Social media can soon be shared from https://www.facebook.com/
LawrenceandDouglasCountySustainability/



Thank you!



Helen

Helen Schnoes

Food Systems Coordinator

Douglas County

1100 Massachusetts Street

Lawrence, KS 66044

Office: (785) 832-5157

Cell: (785) 551-9436



Help identify actions to support our local food system! The Douglas County
Food Policy Council is hosting 5 community conversations to inform the
countywide Food System Plan.



All residents of Douglas County are encouraged to participate. The meetings
will include a brief presentation of local findings from food system
research.  Participants will then be invited to weigh in with their ideas
about actions and policies to support the Douglas County food system.



*The meetings will take place:*

·         *Thursday, November 10, 6:00pm to 7:30pm: Lecompton Community
Building, Lecompton*

·         *Saturday, November 12, 10:00am to 11:00am: Union Pacific Depot,
Lawrence*

·         *Monday, November 14, 6:00pm to 7:30pm: Douglas Co. Fairgrounds,
Meeting Hall, Lawrence*

·         *Tuesday, November 15, 6:30pm to 8:00pm: Community Center, Eudora*

·         *Wednesday, November 16, 6:00pm to 7:30pm: Lumberyard Arts
Center, Baldwin City *



The Food System Plan will be completed in the spring of 2017.



The initiative to create a county-wide Food System Plan emerged through the
update process for the Comprehensive Plan, Horizon 2020. The Comprehensive
Plan update process identified Agricultural Land Preservation and Local
Food System Support & Development as two of 19 key community issues.  The
Douglas County Food Policy Council was tasked with creating a county-wide
Food System Plan.



Additional information about the Food System Plan can be found at
https://www.douglascountyks.org/fpc/food-system-plan

The Food Policy Council is a 23-member advisory body that advises the
Douglas County Commission and Lawrence City Commission on policies to
strengthen the local food economy.  http://douglascountyks.org/fpc/







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