A staff member, a representative of California Volunteers, said the state "fast tracked the distribution of $80,000,000" to 50 food banks and the spoke-hub system that supports about 2,500 pantries across California.

The representative said deployments were already under way: "Just last week, we had 397 members of Cal volunteers that were, sent out to support food banks across the state of California. Hundreds more will be deployed as needed." The speaker added that authorities had "called up the national guard, 35 national guard men and women."

The official cited California Volunteers' experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the organization and partners provided logistics and support while "distributing over 800,000,000 meals during COVID." The representative said the group continues to hold staff in reserve: "We have a cohort of about a 150 that are available as requested," and added, "We'll continue to support our volunteers, through Cal volunteers and individuals that wanna volunteer food food banks."

The remarks described the scale of the state's response—one-time funding, volunteer deployments and National Guard personnel—but did not include additional operational details such as which food banks or counties received funds, the timing of disbursements, or criteria for requesting the reserve cohort. No formal votes or policy actions were recorded in the transcript excerpt.