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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarch Report for Diamond Bar (4)Page 1 of 4 ABOUND FOOD CARE City of Diamond Bar March 2023 Report Date: April 28th, 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 March of 2023, Abound Food Care focused our efforts on coordinating outreach to the identified non-participating Tier 1 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 stopped by Diamond Fresh to speak with Norma to see if she has tried signing up on chow match since the last time we talked. She was out of town so we will need to follow back up with her when she is back. We left our card and they said they would let her know we stopped by. We will follow up with Norma in April if we don’t hear back from her before then. 2. We stopped by Market World so we could speak with Martin since we have been having trouble getting in touch with him. He was not there but they said they would tell him we stopped by. He called the next day and said they have been having trouble with their phone lines and he has been really busy and hasn’t had a chance to sign up on chow match. He said he would try getting signed up within the next week so we will follow up in April if he still has not. 3. We sent an email to Target’s corporate office regarding SB1383 and its requirements and the trouble we were having with receiving the information on an agreement and pounds donated from the store in Diamond Bar. We will continue our outreach to the non-participating Tier 1 generators and continue to offer our support in getting them in compliance with the requirements of SB1383. We reached out to the Tier 1 generators who are participating to ensure their donation pick ups are going well. All donation pick ups are going well with the organizations they are donating to and they are consistent with their pickups. We will begin calling the schools that were on the Tier 2 list that was sent to us. Once we receive confirmation to move forward with our outreach to the additional Tier 2 generators we added to the list, we will begin our outreach with the remaining generators on the list. Page 4 of 4 City of Diamond Bar March 2023 Pounds Recovered Generator February Pounds March Pounds Albertsons 6,500 7,000 Target Pending request for pounds recovered Pending request for pounds recovered Sprouts 3,182 Pending Walmart 11,031 11,019 Smart and Final 823 843 Touchpoints: 10 Abound Food Care continues to provide service and outreach to the City of Diamond Bar foodservice operators.