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LC02246 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2013 | |
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J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N | |
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS OF $175,000 TO THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD | |
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BANK | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Cimini, Palangio, Valencia, Ajello, and Handy | |
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Date Introduced: April 03, 2013 | |
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Referred To: House Finance | |
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WHEREAS, The Rhode Island Community Food Bank is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) |
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organization, founded in 1982 to provide food to people in need and promote long-term solutions |
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to the problem of hunger; and |
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WHEREAS, The Rhode Island Community Food Bank is the only food bank in Rhode |
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Island and is responsible for the efficient distribution of donated and purchased food to its |
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statewide network of 178 member agencies; and |
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WHEREAS, The recent economic downturn has resulted in food insecurity and hunger |
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reaching a ten-year high due to soaring unemployment and growing poverty; and |
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WHEREAS, By the end of 2012, emergency food pantries were serving over 66,000 |
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people each month, an increase of seventy-four percent in the last four years; and |
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WHEREAS, Donations from local supermarkets to the Rhode Island Community Food |
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Bank have decreased by twenty percent due to competition and greater efficiency in the food |
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industry; and |
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WHEREAS, The Rhode Island Community Food Bank has received a Community |
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Service Grant from the State of Rhode Island since fiscal Year 2007; and |
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WHEREAS, The Community Service Grant to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank |
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was $345,637 in Fiscal Year 2008; and |
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WHEREAS, The Community Service Grant has been reduced by fifty percent, to |
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$172,819 for Fiscal Year 2012; and |
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WHEREAS, The Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposed by the Governor levels funds the |
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Community Service Grant; and |
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WHEREAS, The restoration of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank’s Community |
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Service Grant to the previous level represents greater food security to those Rhode Islanders most |
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in need; now, therefore be it |
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RESOLVED, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not |
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otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2013-2014, an additional one hundred seventy five |
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thousand dollars ($175,000) to the Department of Human Services, in addition to the sums |
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proposed in the Governor's Fiscal Year 2013 budget, for a Community Service Grant to be |
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utilized by the Rhode Island Food Bank; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed |
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to draw orders upon the General Treasurer for the payment of said sum upon receipt of properly |
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authenticated vouchers. |
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