Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-20-R2

2nd Redraft ENV 20

Farm to Table Food Pantry Initiatives

Messrs. Tarr, O'Connor and Montigny moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 2511-0107, by inserting the following words:- "; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended for capital equipment to facilitate the acquisition and distribution of locally sourced agricultural and fish product acquisition and distribution by the Open Door food pantry serving the cities of Gloucester and Lynn and the towns of Rockport, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Ipswich, Rowley, Topsfield, Boxford, Hamilton and Wenham, and Our Neighbors' Table, Inc. serving the cities of Amesbury and Newburyport, the town of Salisbury and other communities in northeastern Essex county"; and by striking out the figure "$100,000" and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- "$300,000".