Making available training and operational support to staff of food pantries.

This bill would require the Mayor to designate an office or agency to offer training and operational support to staff of food pantries. The training and operational support would concern ensuring sufficient food inventory, making efforts to maintain food inventory that reflects food variety and local food preferences, maintaining sufficient hours, and other relevant issues. The designated office or agency would be required to conduct outreach to food pantries to advertise the available training and operational support. Lastly, the designated office or agency would be required to report annually to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on the types of training and operational support it offered within the previous 12 months and number of food pantry staff who participated in the trainings within this period, and to post this report online.