Advocating for Permanent Urban Agriculture Committee

Today the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Federal Advisory Committee is holding the second of 3 meetings to be held this year. In the first meeting, last week, they took oral public comments. I requested that they make the Committee permanent rather than requiring that it be renewed every two years as is currently the case.

I requested that they make the Committee permanent rather than requiring that it be renewed every two years as is currently the case.

At today’s meeting, in progress as I type, Committee members are presenting draft recommendations on which they’ll vote at next week’s meeting, the last for the year. Guess what the first recommendation was:

Woohoo! See, I told you they listen to public comments. They also pay attention to comments submitted by mail. More info here.

To be continued…

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