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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApril Report for Diamond Bar (4)Page 1 of 4 ABOUND FOOD CARE City of Diamond Bar April 2023 Report Date: May 31st, 2023 Page 2 of 4 Scope of Services: Abound Food Care agrees to implement an enhanced comprehensive municipal edible food recovery program on behalf of the municipality in the City of Diamond Bar. Services to be performed include the following. 1. Further collaboration and communication. a. To include monthly meetings as needed, information requests, information review, and all necessary follow-ups. 2. Manage edible food recovery contracts between 8 Tier 1 and 14 Tier 2 food waste generators as identified by the city and in accordance with SB1383 regulations. a. Manage and assist in the execution of food recovery agreements from the total 22 Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators. 3. Provide the use of a technology platform to aggregate pounds recovered and report to the city monthly. a. This technology platform will include information on types of food donated, food recovery organization recipient, pounds of food recovered and frequency that the food is recovered in accordance with SB1383 regulations. b. Monitor food donations and provide food donors and food recovery organizations assistance as needed. 4. Provide educational materials to all Tiered food waste generators and food recovery organizations including but not limited to benefits of participation in food recovery and SB1383 compliance regulations. a. Provide the city with a list of Food recovery organizations either in the city or operating in the city to put on their website. 5. Conduct at least 44 targeted and recorded outreach touchpoints to Tier 1 and Tier 2 food waste generators in cooperation and/or conjunction with city staff and waste hauler staff using Abound Food Cares CRM platform. 6. General assistance with communication of these efforts as well as broader efforts to build the stakeholder groups to effectively service the city will be included in this scope of services. 7. Conduct the annual inspection of the 8 identified Tier 1 food generators to identify compliance with SB1383regulations. a. Inspection will include confirmation of a written agreement with a food recovery organization or service, the active use of a food donation log recording their food donation activities and identification of any red flags. Page 3 of 4 Outreach Activities: In April of 2023, Abound Food Care focused our efforts on coordinating outreach to the identified non-participating Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators. This included virtual touchpoints including email and phone calls that included information on how to begin their food donation efforts. These touchpoints were as follows: 1. We have tried reaching out to Norma at Diamond fresh but have still been unable to reach her by phone. We have not received an email response but have sent follow up emails to see if she has had a chance to get signed up on chow match as well as requesting monthly pounds donated since she has expressed that accounting has donation receipts and was going to work on getting the receipts at the store. We will be sending out the city letter in May since we have not heard back from Norma in hopes that it will give a since of urgency. 2. We have continued to reach out to Martin at Market World to see if he has had a chance to get signed up on chow match but have not heard back from him. We will be sending out the city letter in May hoping it will give him a since of urgency in getting this completed. 3. We received the agreement from the Target corporate office that they have with Feeding America. We will continue to try and get in touch with the manager at the store level so we can let them know corporate sent us over the agreement and are hoping they will be more willing to work with us on giving us the additional information we need. 4. We have begun reaching out to schools that are on the Tier 2 list. Emmalyn from the Walnut Valley Unified School District reached out to us and let us know that they have a contract with COPIA who picks up their food donations. All donations from the schools in the district are sent to Walnut High School where they are then picked up. We let her know that the agreement and the food log that tracks donations need to be held at each individual school site so they can access the information to be in compliance with SB1383. She appreciated us letting her know that and said she would double check their process. We will be reaching out to Pomona Unified School District as there are five schools in Diamond Bar that are in the PUSD so we can see if they are in a program as well. We will continue our outreach to the non-participating Tier 1 and Tier 2 generators and continue to offer our support in getting them in compliance with the requirements of SB1383. We will begin calling the additional generators on the Tier 2 list as we have received confirmation to move forward with our outreach to the generators we added. Page 4 of 4 City of Diamond Bar April 2023 Pounds Recovered Generator March Pounds April Pounds 2023 Total Albertsons 7,000 8,160 32,160 Target Pending request for pounds recovered Pending request for pounds recovered Pending request for pounds recovered Sprouts 4,385 Pending 11,095 Walmart 11,019 12,119 43,942 Smart and Final 843 715 3,581 Touchpoints: 19 Abound Food Care continues to provide service and outreach to the City of Diamond Bar foodservice operators.