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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council hereby recognizes that obesity is a serious public health threat to the health and well-being of adults, children and families in San Leandro. While individual lifestyle changes are necessary, individual effort alone is insufficient to combat obesity's rising tide. Significant societal and environmental changes are needed to support individual efforts to make healthier choices. To that end, the City of San Leandro adopts this Healthy Eating Active Living resolution, as follows: I. Built Environment BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that City of San Leandro planners, engineers, parks, recreation, community economic and redevelopment personnel responsible for the design and construction of parks, neighborhoods, streets, and business areas, should make every effort to: • Consider capital improvements projects to increase the opportunities for physical activity in existing areas; • Plan and construct a built environment that encourages walking, biking and other forms of physical activity; • Address walking and biking connectivity between residential neighborhoods and schools, parks, recreational resources, and retail; • Facilitate the siting of new grocery stores, community gardens, urban agriculture and farmers markets in underserved communities to increase access to healthy food, including fresh fruits and vegetables; • Expand community access to indoor and outdoor public facilities through joint use agreements with schools and/or other partners; • Revise comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances to increase opportunities for physical activity including compact, mixed-use and transit-oriented development; • Include health goals and policies related to physical activity and access to healthy food in the general plan update. II. Employee Wellness BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in order to promote wellness within the City of San Leandro and to set an example for other businesses, the City of San Leandro pledges to continue employee wellness activities, including: • Publicizing employee health incentives made available by its medical benefit providers; • Forwarding to all staff via email any complimentary issues received ofwellness-related newsletters and e-zines; • Encouraging walking meetings and the use of stairways; • Reasonably accommodating lactating employees; • Encouraging physical activity breaks for meetings over two hours in length; • Coordinating flu vaccinations for City employees when provided at no cost to the City; • Providing links to wellness information via its Intranet; and • Encouraging local fitness centers to offer discounts to City employees. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED to encourage healthy eating by providing nutritious, low- fat choices among food offered at City events, City-sponsored meetings, City facilities, concessions, and programs. RESOLUTION NO. 2009-162 2