`GI! MEAS, SecondYfarvest Food Bank of Orange County serves as a Large regionaffood bank that provides foodforaffwho needit with a concentratedfocus on ourmost vulnerable populations — children, working families, college students, and seniors; and
UMEW.7S, food insecurity is a real and pervasive reality in Orange County, noted by the fact that nearly 50% of Orange County pu6fic school students rely on school meals as their primary source of nutrition, and 1 in 11 children in Orange County is considered food insecure; and IPMW,f7S, SecondYfarvest distri6uted over 3 6.2 million pounds of food to an average 392,666 people per month in 2023; and
UMM, SecondYfarvest reties primarily on private donations (with approximately 64% of its food donated and also relies significantly on volunteers (with over 70, 000 volunteer hours donated fast year); and
`WJ&W,AS, Second Yfarvest has been an integral part of our County, having celebrated its 40tf, anniversary on October 24, 2023.
ArOW,, 9MW FOW, I, Wiff O'Neill, Mayor of the City of Newport Beach, on behalf of the entire Newport Beach City Councif, do hereby recognize
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for their extraordinary help feeding Orange County's vulnera6le population.
IX Wjq%W %&I 4gWOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seafof the City of Newport Beach to be aff7(ed this 12th day of-14arch, 2024.
Wiff O'Xeiff
,Mayor
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