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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDiamond Bar January 2024 ReportPage 1 of 4 ABOUND FOOD CARE City of Diamond Bar January 2024 Report Date: February 29th, 2024 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 January of 2024, 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 spoke with Jae who is the receiver at Target, and he let us know the organization they donate to provided them with their total pounds donated for 2023. We let him know that they would need to have a monthly total for each month onsite. He is going to request that they provide him with their total pounds donated each month moving forward so that they have that recorded at the store level. We will follow up with Jae to ensure they are receiving their total for their pounds donated each month. 2. We followed up with Temo at Diamond Fresh to see if they had started tracking their monthly pounds. Temo said they are now tracking their pounds donated each month and sent over their pounds donated that they have since we did their inspection in October. We let him know to continue to track their pounds donated and they should be all set for their inspection in 2024. 3. After looking into Aljabani Halal Market, it seems it is a smaller market and would need to be at the two-million-dollar revenue annually to qualify. We have been unable to verify their annual revenue so we reached out to the planning division to see if they could provide us with this information. We left a voicemail for Stella Marquez regarding this and will follow up with her in February if we don’t hear from her before then. 4. Vanity at Chili’s responded back to the email we had sent. She let us know she forwarded the information we sent to their corporate office, and they have reached out to the appropriate regulatory agencies and are waiting to hear what the next steps will be moving forward. We will follow up with her in the coming weeks if we don’t hear back from her before then. 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. Page 4 of 4 City of Diamond Bar 2024 Pounds Recovered Generator October Pounds November Pounds December Pounds 2023 Total January Pounds 2024 Total Albertsons 12,000 13,130 13,875 131,925 Pending Pending Target Pending request for pounds recovered Pending request for pounds recovered Pending request for pounds recovered 56,940 Pending Pending Sprouts 3,509 499 3,525 43,311 Pending Pending Walmart 17,090 13,547 12,195 128,982 13,545 13,545 Smart and Final 1,275 760 1090 11,944 1,005 1,005 Diamond Fresh 146 100 0 246 150 150 Total 34,020 28,036 30,685 373,348 14,700 14,700 Touchpoints: 12 Abound Food Care continues to provide service and outreach to the City of Diamond Bar foodservice operators.