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IW THE NAME AND By THE Autuortry oF THE STATE OF lowa

EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER THIRTY ~- EIGHT

WHEREAS, this office announced the creation of the IOWA FOOD POLICY COUNCIL, on March 31, 2000, in EXCUTIVE ORDER NUMBER SIXTEEN, and continued its existence in EXECUTIVE ORDERS NUMBER NINETEEN and TWENTY- NINE; and

WHEREAS, the Council continues to serve a need by providing the people of lowa with a vehicle to mect and discuss opportunities for using policy actions by state and local governments to promote a stronger and more diverse food system; and

WHEREAS, Drake University’s Agricultural Law Center, with financial support from Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture, is examining how state and local food policy councils are a productive form of civic engagement, and is providing the staff and funding to support the work of the lowa Food Policy Council, and

WHEREAS The Council continues to provide leadership to the State of lowa by examining how food policy councils can be used to create more economic development Opportunities for farmers, improve access to food for consumers and enhance the well-being of communities; and

WHEREAS § The Council and its Food Security Task Force have been recognized by Congress for leadership and contributions to improving the operation of lowa’s food assistance programs; and

WHEREAS, Drake University and the lowa Food Policy Council sponsor the annual Jowa Food Policy Conference, most recently held September 10, 2004, to convene stakcholders in lowa’s food system and provide a comprehensive public educational event to discuss opportunities in lowa; and

WHEREAS, The lowa Food Policy Council has provided a report to the Governor and the state including specific policy recommendations for how to improve the opportunities in lowa’s food system, and

WHEREAS, The Council has determined further review is necessary in order to make

additional recommendations for comprehensive food policy proposals for the State of Iowa; and

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, Thomas J. Vilsack, Governor of the State of lowa, by the power vested in me by the laws and the Constitution of the State of lowa do hereby order the continuation of the (OWA FOOD POLICY COUNCIL, as established and set forth in Executive Orders Sixteen, Nincteen and Twenty-Nine with the same powers and authority.

‘The provisions outlined in EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER TWENTY-NINE shall continue to govern the activities of the council, with the following amendments:

1. The Council will hold the Fourth lowa Food Policy Conference in September 2005.

2. The Council will continue the work of three inter-agency task forces, focused on recommending improvements in state activities relating to food security, increasing institutional purchases of lowa food products, and promoting use of locally grown food products.

3. The task force formerly know as the “Food Security Task Force” will broaden its work to include health and nutrition and will now operate as the Food Security and Health Task Force

4. The Council will work with interested communities to support the Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign administered through the Practical Farmers of lowa, and will continuc the effort to create a state-wide Buy Fresh

5. The Council will continue to develop a blueprint for the food industry in lowa to use community-based food processing in rural economic development, including an cffort to identify the potential for a poultry- processing facility to serve producers and consumers in central Iowa.

6, The Council shall submit an annual report outlining its findings and recommendations to the Governor for review no later than September 30" of each year. The Council will continue in operation until such time as the Governor determines its activities are no longer necessary for the people of Iowa,

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOFP, | have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of lowa to be affixed. Done at Des Moines this 22™ day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand four,

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CHESTER J, CULVER SECRETARY OF STATE

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