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Resolution 2011-06 RESOLUTION NO. 2011- 06 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY RELATING TO THE LET'S MOVE CAMPAIGN WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy supports policies and programs that focus on health and wellness and healthier community environments; and WHEREAS, the childhood obesity epidemic is a national health crisis with one in every three children overweight and obese; and WHEREAS, the 2010 Health Profile for Santa Clara County revealed that 50 percent of adults and 1 in 4 children are overweight or obese; and WHEREAS, overweight and obesity have been shown to lead to heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other chronic diseases; and WHEREAS, the cost of overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity in California due to health care costs and lost productivity is estimated to be $41.2 billion; and WHEREAS, the cost of obesity of overweight and obesity and physical inactivity in Santa Clara County alone is estimated to be over $2 billion; and WHEREAS, many cities, counties and schools have adopted policies, programs and ordinances that promote healthier environments by making their communities walkable and bikeable and promoting the use of transit, eliminating unhealthy foods in city, county or school facilities, promoting incentives for stores that sell fresh produce to locate in depressed neighborhoods, and providing exercise opportunities for their residents; and WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy has partnered with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, which has recently been awarded $3.6 million through the Prevention RESOLUTION NO. 2011- 06 and Public Health Fund of the Affordable Care Act to expand its Communities Putting Prevention to Work project to include obesity prevention; and WHEREAS, City Council of the City of Gilroy believes there are important long- term community benefits to be gained by creating healthy community environments, including a decrease in the rate of childhood obesity and related risk factors for chronic disease; and WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy and other community partners can work together to understand the relationship between obesity, land-use policies, redevelopment, and community planning; and WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy and other community partners, including schools, can work in partnership to ensure that there are safe places for residents to be active such as routes to school, parks, ball fields, pools, gyms, and recreation centers; and WHEREAS, access to healthy affordable foods has a direct impact on the overall health of our community and planning for the availability of fresh food in neighborhood stores and farmers markets and improved access through sidewalks, bike paths, and transit routes should be a priority; and WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy and other community partners can work to promote programs that help parents make healthier choices for their families; and WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy wants to partner with and support the Let's Move Campaign headed by the First Lady of the United States, the Presidents' Task Force on Childhood Obesity and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in an effort to solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation; now therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Gilroy, on this 24th day of January, 2011, that the City of Gilroy will sign up to become a Let's Move City and adopt RESOLUTION NO. 2011- 06 preventive strategies to fight obesity as put forth by the First Lady of the United States of America in the Let's Move campaign. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 24th day of January, 2011, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: ARELLANO, BRACCO, DILLON, LEROE-MUNOZ, TUCKER, WOODWARD and PINHEIRO NONE NONE APPROVED: ~ lbert PinheIro, Mayor RESOLUTION NO. 2011- 06 I, SHA WNA FREELS, City Clerk ofthe City of Gilroy, do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 2011-06 is an original resolution, or true and correct copy of a city resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 24th day of January, 2011, at which meeting a quorum was present. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of the City of Gilroy this 25th day of January, 2011. (Seal)