San Francisco serves up an empty plate to its Food Bank consumers

SAN FRANCISCO

Liz and Lee Heidhues 6.27.2025

Message to San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan – Budget Committee Chairperson

Connie 

We just learned today, June 27, 2025. the Mayor and BOS have cut funding for the SF Marin Food Bank.

The Health and Human Services Agency HSA is now administrator of the program.

The weekly distribution days yearly have been cut by 13 percent (seven times)

This will have a serious nutritional impact on the voters in your district 

As budget Chair you could have stopped this take away from people of an essential human need. Food.

Lee Heidhues

Doing further research I learned, reading an article in the Marin Independent Journal, that the curtailment of SF Marin Food Bank activities was public knowledge in 2023. See attached article published in November 2023.

While the article talks only about food distribution in Marin, the area the IJ serves, it should have been obvious to San Francisco that it would not be immune from the cutbacks.

San Francisco officials should have taken action to ensure that there would be no cutbacks. Instead, the consumers who rely on this essential service were only provided with this disturbing news at literally the last minute.

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