Join us in asking the State Senate to support SB 499 (McGuire). SB 499 is up for discussion in the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education. Join us in asking these Senators to support healthy food for California’s students.
Sign-on, tweet, call, and/or email the following Senators. Prioritize your outreach to Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Glendale, Burbank, Pasadena), the Chair of the Committee on Appropriations and Senator Richard Roth (D-Riverside, Corona, Moreno Valley). This should take you just a few minutes.
(1) Sign your organization on to this coalition letter for full funding in the State Budget. (This requires a google login; if you are having trouble simply email your logo to elyse@cfpa.net.).
(2) Share your support on social media. Retweet CFPA’s post, or write and share your own.
(3) Email or call (see script below)
Please also spend a few minutes contacting your Senator if they are listed below as members of the committees:
Senate Appropriations
Senate Budget SubCommittee on Education
Sample script:
Hello. My name is ________. I live in ______, CA. I am calling to ask Senator ______ to support SB 499 and full funding for the “California Grown Healthy Kids Program”, which would create healthy, hunger-free schools through an extra 10¢ per breakfast reimbursement to purchase fresh California-grown fruits and vegetables for. To earn this incentive, school districts must serve breakfast universally free in all schools and serve breakfast and lunch universally free at very high poverty schools. [choose one or more of the following reasons or tell them your own]
Questions? Contact Elyse Homel Vitale at 510.433.1122 ext 206, or visit https://nourishca.org/sb499/
