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Adopt and present a resolution challenging Contra Costa County to participate in the 16th annual Counties Care Holiday Food Fight friendly challenge to benefit the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The County Administrator's Office recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt and present a resolution challenging Contra Costa County to participate in the 16th annual Counties Care Holiday Food Fight friendly challenge to benefit the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.
SUMMARY:
Solano and Contra Costa Counties, working with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano (Food Bank), have been participating in an annual counties care holiday food fight friendly challenge since 2004 when the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors extended the first challenge to Solano County. This will be the sixteenth year of this annual event to raise funds for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.
The event allows employees at both counties the opportunity to help those in need in their respective counties through financial donations as food insecurity and hunger are a continuing and growing concern in both counties and throughout California. Last year's combined county employees contributed a fifteen-year cumulative total of more than $1.45 million. With the friends of the food fight included, more than $1.88 million has been donated to the Food Bank.
In 2018, Solano County won the annual event with $16.39 contributed per employee and maintained control of the "Big Apple" trophy - a three-year winning streak. As the holder of the "Big Apple," Solano County challenges Contra Costa County to participate in the employee-to-employee 2019 Counties Care Holiday Food Fight friendly challenge to compete for possession of the "Big Apple" trophy.
If adopted by the Solano County Board of Supervisors, the resolution will be presented ...
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