How Brad Bradford voted at council

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1. 2024.EX17.1AMENDED

   Building a Universal Student Food Program in Toronto

   In my time as a City Councillor and Toronto’s Child and Youth Advocate, I spoke with youth across the city - asking them what they would do if they were mayor for a day. One entry from Sylvia stood out above all the others. She submitted a drawing of a stick figure child holding up a shopping bag, her note read that she would ask God for money to buy groceries. This image and this need has haunted me ever since. That’s why today I am taking the next step as Mayor to build a Universal Student Food Program in our city. I am committed to making this happen. It exists in cities around the world and Torontonians deserve it too. I am very proud to have helped establish Toronto’s student food program when I was a school trustee and later a councillor. Today it helps to serve over 227,000 meals per day to kids across our city. But still there are over 100,000 kids across more than 220 public schools who do not have access to good food, including thousands in some of our lowest income neighbourhoods. In fact, we have 21 schools that have the infrastructure in place, that are eligible, that have applied in the last two years, and have been denied because of a lack of fundi…

   City Council · 2024-10-10 11:17 AM

   Adopt Item as Amended

   Brad Bradford's vote: Yes

   Majority required - EX17.1 - Adopt the item as amended

   Motion result

   Carried

   Recorded tally

   23-1

   Source outcome