really leaving things up to the local individual,

做出扫除政策的决定
as opposed to the state or the federal government,

不配合国家或者联邦政府
making these sweeping policy decisions.

只会将问题留给本土人民
She said that what she would prefer is

她说她比较偏向于
that instead of us having a state law,

不在本州使用国家法律
the local district should write their own school wellness policies,

而是在行政区内制定自己的学校健康政策
and this is at the same time

而与此同时
as the federal mandate was coming out to do this,

联邦法令也下达了要这么做的指示
and that that would be the best way to handle the situation.

所以这就是解决问题的最好办法了
During this time, these were due actually September 2006

在此期间实际上到2006年9月
but the idea to start writing these policies

而要开始编写这些政策的想法
actually came out a couple years earlier.

早在几年前就有了