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Summer Meals SFSP Regulations Training Transcript: May 19, 2022
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Cooke, Caroline
Feels awkward, like there should be a countdown or something going on right now.
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Yearwood, Shannon
Well, there is. It's a. It's on our, it's on our desktops here.
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Yearwood, Shannon
I'm waiting to hit the record button.
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Cooke, Caroline
I see.
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Cooke, Caroline
I see. Thank you for the record button.
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Cooke, Caroline
We have lots of friends, which is good since they sent out my reminder saying make sure you're on
time because we're gonna hit the ground running today.
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Yearwood, Shannon
That's why I'm writing with my. I'm waiting for the 2:00 o'clock when I can hit the record button.
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Maineri, Terese
Who?
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Cooke, Caroline
And there we go.
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Yearwood, Shannon
Hi, everybody, welcome to yours mandatory annual summer food service training. Today we are
talking about everyone's favorite topics regulations. We have a ton to cover as I'm sure you can
imagine. So I'm just going to go ahead and hand it right off to my team, Caroline and Therese, and
thank you all for joining us. Even though you really don't have a choice, but thank you anyway.
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Yearwood, Shannon
After you.
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Cooke, Caroline
OK, thanks. So I am actually gonna go off camera and be less of a distraction and just get started
with the slides.
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Cooke, Caroline
So good afternoon, everyone. I am Caroline Cooke. Thank you so much for joining us for the 4th
installment of Connecticut Summer Meals training for summer 2022. Thank goodness Shannon is
back to host today's exciting look at Summer Food Service Program regulations. Unfortunately,
Shannon was not with us for the webinar two weeks ago, and I completely bungled my responsibility
of recording it. So despite my strong urging to have your site supervisors view the recording of the
scintillating USDA foods.
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Cooke, Caroline
And local foods and food safety training that will not be possible.
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Cooke, Caroline
Let's see.
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Cooke, Caroline
Now, however, I strongly urge you to review the food safety sides from that training with your site
supervisors and have them view the two videos, slides and links to the videos will be posted on our
SFSP training webpage soon and you will receive an email to let you know when they are there.
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Cooke, Caroline
Every organization intending to operate SFSP and Summer 2022 must have representation must
have representation for each webinar of this six part series. We strongly urge you to attend all the
webinars live to receive full benefits of the Q&A portions, but we will make recordings available as
quickly as we can in the event of scheduling conflicts. Assuming of course that we actually have
someone leading the training that remembers to push record SFSP sponsors will be required to
provide an accounting at the conclusion.
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Cooke, Caroline
Of the webinar series of how you participated in each training session, just as you were required to
do last year.
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Cooke, Caroline
Please feel free to type any questions you may have into the chat box. We will try to answer them
along the way if they come in while we're still on the relevant topic at the end, we'll go back to any
that we may have missed along the way. If you enter a question and don't get a response live, we
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may feel the answer is very specific to your organization or community circumstances and we will
reach out to you after the webinar. This is a very full webinar so we may also run out of time and we
will do our best to get to questions, but if we can't get to them.
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Cooke, Caroline
Five, we will get the answers to you. Don't forget, you can always reach out to your summer meals.
County consultant as you engage in planning for summer 2022, we have another jam-packed agenda
today. So let's get started.
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Cooke, Caroline
I'm going to do a very quick recap of the waiver landscape for summer 2022 that we already
discussed on the April 7th Webinar for Area eligibility. Terese and I continue to receive questions
about these or hear plans for summer 2022 operations that do not fall within allowable SFSP
operations. It's time to unlearn many of the program flexibilities we have utilized for the last two
years and focus on getting back to normal child Nutrition program operations.
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Cooke, Caroline
Knowing what program flexibilities you've been operating under that are going away is absolutely
critical to operating in federal compliance moving forward.
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Cooke, Caroline
So this is just a reminder of all of those waivers that are going away. So those are the waivers that
allowed you to operate SFSP and SSO during the school year, the area eligibility requirements for
SFSP and SSO meal sites, congregate meals or non-congregate meals depending on which
perspective you're looking at it from allowability of parent guardian pickup waivers regarding meal
pattern flexibility on site monitoring waivers to allow reimbursement of meals served prior to
written notification of approval.
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Cooke, Caroline
Queue dramatic trying crying in the background from Caroline Cook on that one and waiver to
allow SFSP reimbursement rates for SSO operations through this current school year. We did
submit a number of statewide waiver request to USDA and will be sharing the results of those
requests.
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Cooke, Caroline
So how you can help us make sure that everyone gets approved in time based on the fact that that?
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Cooke, Caroline
Waiver. That's second from the bottom is going away is to make sure that you're meeting deadlines
without us having to chase you down. Be sure to read instructions and follow them to the very best
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of your abilities. Complete everything and complete packets have to be returned and the more times
that Terese and I handle one individual packet, the less efficient we are, which ends up impacting
everyone that's participating in summer meals. Once your sponsor and site applications are
approved, you cannot make operational changes until you have received approval in writing.
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Cooke, Caroline
Or meals will not be reimbursable.
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Cooke, Caroline
And now I'm going to turn it over to Therese.
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Maineri, Terese
I.
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Maineri, Terese
Hi, I'll be going over UM, program regulations so.
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Maineri, Terese
These aren't few of the most important and helpful Summer Food Service Program resources
available to you, which are the the Connecticut State Department of Education Summer Food
Service Program and seamless summer option webpages. The Summer Food Service Program
Regulations 7 CFR to 25, the USDA some of food Service program website and the USDA
Department of Education, Department of Agriculture.
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Maineri, Terese
Summer Food Service Program Handbook, USDA and the connected State Department of
Education approved operational and Miranda website, so I'll quickly go through these somehow
during the early months of the pandemic in 2020, Susan Fiore, our nutrition education.
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Maineri, Terese
Coordinator found the time to completely overhaul the connected State Department of Education
Summer Food Service Program websites. Not only that, not only does she create and maintain a
number of helpful resources herself, she curated an unbelievable collection of other Summer Food
Service Program resources from USDA. The School Nutrition Association, the Institute of Child
Nutrition, California Department of Education, and the Montana Office of.
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Maineri, Terese
Public instruction for the past.
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Maineri, Terese
For the past decade, there has been a concentrated effort to develop resources for the Summer
Food Service Program. Now you don't even have to go looking for them. Susan has located shift it
through and selected the most helpful resources, and it would surprise me if you needed to invest
your own effort and research it, researching or creating some of our food service program tools.
You can simply pick the pieces that fit your needs.
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Maineri, Terese
OK. Regarding the Summer Food Service Program Regulation 7 CFR 225, the USDA, some some
food Service program regulation.
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Maineri, Terese
I are now easier to search on their electronic format using the webpage link above. You can run a
search of the USDA Summer Food Service program, Federal Regulations 7 CFR 225.
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Maineri, Terese
Yes, you're still a webpage has resources available for you.
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Maineri, Terese
These are the.
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Maineri, Terese
I can't stress enough how helpful the USDA and administrative guide for the Summer Food Service
Program is. First, when I first started at the Connecticut State Department of Education, there was
updated by the USDA. Each year it has been updated. It has has not been updated since 2016, but
it's still very helpful. The language is very approachable and can they're very effectively help you
envision how you can implement federal regulations in the best fit for your community.
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Maineri, Terese
If you do not need, you do not need to read the guide cover to cover, but you can read just a page or
two at a time on certain topics as you address the needs of your community and explore the best
ways to maximize.
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Maineri, Terese
Use of local resources and partnerships. Other guys that are useful to you are the nutrition guidance
for menu planning, state agency monitoring guide.
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Maineri, Terese
Sponsors monitoring guide in state Super Site Supervisors Guide in English and in Spanish.
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Maineri, Terese
And this is the Connecticut State Department of Education, UCLA OM's website. And on this
website.
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Maineri, Terese
You you're provided quick links to OM guidance documents from various years and one central
location. If you use the link of this website that you can, you can find the link for this website and
the Connecticut State Department of Education Center Food Service program page.
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Maineri, Terese
And here we have the federal.
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Maineri, Terese
1st next slide. Here we have the federal policy guidance websites that might be of use to you
regarding a certain topic.
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Maineri, Terese
One topic that I wanted to uh, the the ones that I have listed here are are accessing classes and if we
service program cat site cap in the Summer Food Service program, rural designation and some food
service program, Super Circular 200 procurement standards and local food in similar food summer
meal programs. One topic that I wanted to mention was rural designation and that's just because the
site is in the countryside doesn't mean that it's a rural site.
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Maineri, Terese
The Summer Food Service Program Roll Destiny designation is.
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Maineri, Terese
Determined to be geographically isolated from urban areas. So for Connecticut that basically means
that it's a small state. So you're if you are a real site, you would be not located next to a major urban
area. So currently it's Litchfield County.
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Maineri, Terese
General program requirements. USDA defines children as persons 18 years of age and under, and
persons 19 years of age or older who are determined by the by a state educational agency or by a
local public educational agency of a state to be mentally or physically handicapped, and who
participate in a public or nonprofit private school program established for the mentally or physically
handicap.
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Maineri, Terese
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Eligible sponsored types, public or private nonprofit school food authorities, public or private,
nonprofit, college or university, public or private, not nonprofit residential summer camp unit of
local.
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Maineri, Terese
County of Quality, State or federal government. Any other type of program nonprofit?
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Maineri, Terese
Any other type of private nonprofit organization.
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Maineri, Terese
So myocyte eligibility, so this is one that we've gotten a lot of questions about with the waiver that
ending. And so just a reminder of traditional operation that area eligibility is an area in which 50% or
more of the children residing in the area are eligible for free or reduced meals.
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Maineri, Terese
In next slide.
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Maineri, Terese
OK.
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Maineri, Terese
From the most common meal types are open sites, restricted open sites closed, general site at camp
residential, and nonresidential, less common in Connecticut are might migrant sites, tribal sites,
National Youth.
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Maineri, Terese
Sports program site and upward bound site.
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Maineri, Terese
Open sites are located in a needy area where 50% or more children residing in the area are eligible
for free or reduced price meals.
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Maineri, Terese
OK, sponsors must take necessary steps to allow meal service access to all children requesting a
meal at the site. Information regarding mail services must be published public sized in the
community it serves.
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Maineri, Terese
Area eligibility is established using school census data, documentation or other approved sources.
We went over most of this during the area eligibility training. The first training that we had.
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Maineri, Terese
And so other mail site types.
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Maineri, Terese
Are restricted well, the first one is restricted open site and occasional sponsor that would normally
operate open site initially.
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Maineri, Terese
Open to a broad community, participation must restrict or limit the feeding.
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Maineri, Terese
Sites attendance for reasons of space security, safety or control. These are by regulation and the only
allowable justifications to support approval of a restricted.
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Maineri, Terese
Of restricted open site.
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Maineri, Terese
Sponsors must publicize that the site is open on a first come, first serve basis to all children in the
community. But male services will be limited based on space security, safety or control. Area
eligibility is established using school census data.
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Maineri, Terese
Either document did resources.
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Maineri, Terese
Next slide.
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Maineri, Terese
Umm at least 50% of children enrolled at the site are approved for free or reduced price meals,
school meals, free and reduced school lunch eligibility status is obtained from their school income
eligibility. Applications completed by the child's family school lunch eligibility status does not refer
to free meals under either the community eligibility provision or.
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Maineri, Terese
Weavers extended through.
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Maineri, Terese
The public health emergency.
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Maineri, Terese
Very first to individual income determinations for particular children through direct certification or
household income application.
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Maineri, Terese
We do not have the nationwide waiver.
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Maineri, Terese
Active for summer 2022 that will also allow you to use area eligibility for a closed and roll site or we
do. I'm sorry we do have active the areas area eligibility waiver for clothes and rule sites in place of
assisting.
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Maineri, Terese
The income eligibility of individuals.
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Maineri, Terese
Individual children enrolled in the in the group.
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Maineri, Terese
So close normal site is open only to inroads children or.
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And identify group of children.
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Maineri, Terese
As opposed to the community at large.
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Maineri, Terese
Usually established where program provides record rational, cultural, religious or other types of
organized activities for certain groups of children, the program is.
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Maineri, Terese
The the program is taking place in an area with.
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Maineri, Terese
Less than 50% eligible children, 50% or more of children enrolled.
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Are eligible for free and reduced price meals.
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Maineri, Terese
The programming is taking place in the area eligible location but is not appropriate to be accessed by
the public as an open site.
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Maineri, Terese
Now say type camp and in a residential camps, participants spend the duration of the organized
program in a 24 hour supervised care setting and receive regularly scheduled food service as part of
the program.
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Maineri, Terese
Nonresidential campsites offer continuous schedule of organized cultural recreational programs for
enrolled children between mail services.
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Maineri, Terese
Campsites cannot be established through area eligibility, but must collect and maintain individual
income eligibility forms or individual income eligibility status as determined by the child's school.
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Maineri, Terese
Reimbursement reimburse only for enrolled children who meet the free and reduced price eligibility
standards may charge it.
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Maineri, Terese
Umm in eligible children for meals ensuring.
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Over identification is made.
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Maineri, Terese
Must be licensed by the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood in the website is there.
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Maineri, Terese
OK, academic summer school. I've gotten a lot of questions about academic summer, school
academic summer school. It's a school site that provide meals only to enrolled academic summer
school students are not eligible to participate in the Summer Food Service Program or the Seamless
summer option. They must be cleaned and reimbursed under the.
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Maineri, Terese
School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program. If the school site is eligible, is area
eligible and then opens its meal program to commute to the community. All meals can be served
free under the Summer Food Service Program or the Seamless summer option. The use of the
extension of the National School Lunch Program to feed academic summer school students will be
a bit more complicated than normal this year. Most districts across Connecticut.
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Maineri, Terese
Have not received and processed a number of income.
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Maineri, Terese
A number of household income applications for free and reduced price meals.
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Maineri, Terese
That they use as many as they usually do. This one make it much more challenging to maintain a
child's free reduced price or paid school meal status in the summer of 2022.
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Maineri, Terese
Common summer meals site locations are park schools, churches, libraries with offices, playgrounds,
food pantries.
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Maineri, Terese
Farmer market swimming pools, summer program housing complex, community and recreation
centers, and any place where children congregate. The final one in Green is the most important. You
will have a better participation it if you get meals to children.
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Maineri, Terese
Where children are, rather than trying to get children to come to the meals, you need a network.
You need to network and your community to find out where children are spending their time in the
summer.
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Maineri, Terese
So now we'll go on to staff training requirements.
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Maineri, Terese
Administrative insight staff must be trained in, must be trained, including civil rights, prior to the
beginning of the Summer Food Service Program duties, sample training forms can be found on this
following website and the civil rights PowerPoint can be found on the website below. It. All
federally required training topics are identified in chapter seven of the USDA administration guide
for the Summer Food Service Program mentioned earlier.
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Maineri, Terese
Stopped training requirements. Training must be documented. If any staff missed the scheduled
training makeup training.
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Maineri, Terese
Must be provided in documented prior to staff beginning. There's Summer Food Service Program
duties.
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Maineri, Terese
Staff training requirements for administrative staff, general explanation of the program.
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Maineri, Terese
Program duties and responsibilities of staff purpose of the program. Site eligibility record keeping
requirements.
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Maineri, Terese
Site operations, meal pattern requirements, delivery schedule, meal storage, duties of monitors, civil
rights requirements, miscellaneous sponsors, topics, sponsors, topics.
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Maineri, Terese
Additional site staff training would be responsibilities of the site supervisor. We see and count for
for delivered meals. Serve meals, ensure safe and sanitary conditions at the site, ensure that children
are children, eat all meals on site, take accurate point of service meal counts clean up after meals.
Plan for inclement weather site staff must be trained in all topics listed in the previous slide.
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Maineri, Terese
For the Ministrative staff, plus additional training topics.
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Civil rights.
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Requirements serve meals to all attending children regardless, regardless of race, color, national
origin, sex, age, or disability. Allow all children equal access to services and facilities.
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Maineri, Terese
At your site, regardless of race, color, nationality, sex, age, or disability, display poster in a prominent
place at each meal site and in administrative office.
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Maineri, Terese
Make program materials available to public upon request. Accommodating language, new needs.
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Maineri, Terese
And.
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Maineri, Terese
The actual civil rights training required for administrative and frontline staff can be found at the
website below.
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Maineri, Terese
Umm, instructing staff to post the and justice for all poster.
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Umm. Doesn't service uh civil rights training. They must be trained on contact. The new poster is
available display in a prominently in all administrative and meal service locations. And then if you
look in the corner, there's the website for the new poster.
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Maineri, Terese
OK, now I'm going to move on to monitoring requirements.
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Monitoring assurance that site operation operates according to federal regulations. Accurate records
are available children in the community are getting safe, nutritious meals.
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Preoperational site visit.
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Determines that a site has the necessary facilities in capability to conduct the proposed meal service
for the projected number of participants and a sample forms are available at the website below.
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Maineri, Terese
Mushroom requirements. First week site visit.
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Determines whether the food service operation is running smoothly or has problems that need
correcting. Sample form is available at the website below. There is a statewide waiver in effect for
the summer of 2022 to waive the first week visit for sites that operating successfully in the preceding
year, meaning it is not a new site and it did not exhibit.
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Operational challenges in the summer of 2021.
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Four week site review determines if the site is meeting all.
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Maineri, Terese
Program requirements conducted within the first four weeks of the Summer Food Service Program
operation, regardless of the length of the program, and then again, some sample forms can be found
using the website below. Please do not wait until the 4th week of operations to conduct this review.
Please, please do not attempt to do this for.
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Maineri, Terese
For each of your sites.
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In the fourth week of operation, you are tempting fate. That something will occur or disrupt your
review schedule. Staff overturned site closure operation operates early.
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You may get there and realize that the meals have been served at all at site for the past four weeks
and they aren't reimbursable due to failure to comply with federal regulations.
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Maineri, Terese
And Caroline will take it from here.
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Cooke, Caroline
Cool. My turn.
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Cooke, Caroline
And open restricted open and closed enrolled sites. Cannot claim lunch and supper meals on the
same day.
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Cooke, Caroline
Meal count requirements. You must count and record the number of meals as they are given out as a
point of service count. You cannot obtain a meal count by subtracting meals leftover from a
beginning balance of meals on hand by counting trays before and after service or any other creative
mathematical solutions. You may only serve one meal to each child during the meal service.
00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:42.610
Cooke, Caroline
If you serve second meals, they may only be served after all children present have been offered a
first meal.
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Cooke, Caroline
You must count second meal separately. If you choose to allow second meals. Second, meals must
be served as a complete unit. So for example, it cannot be simply an extra slice of pizza.
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Cooke, Caroline
You must record the meal counts daily at the end of each meal, and meal counts must be submitted
by the site to the sponsor at least weekly.
00:29:08.840 --> 00:29:12.430
Cooke, Caroline
Neil, Count requirements for camps are a little bit more specialized.
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Cooke, Caroline
Camps must record meal counts by individual camper for each meal. Camp sponsors are only
receiving reimbursement for Meals served to eligible campers based on income eligibility,
applications or certification of eligibility from the child's school food authority as meal counts are
completed weekly, the sponsor should make determinations about meal counts for eligible and
ineligible campers.
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Cooke, Caroline
It's only good nutrition if the meal components are consumed. We're not interested in food items
added to the meal simply to check the boxes. Please be thoughtful in menu planning. We expect you
to learn and improve your menus each year. Make your meal something that families want to come
back to each year.
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Cooke, Caroline
Meal pattern requirements assure well balanced meals that supply the kinds and amounts of foods
that children need to help meet their nutrient and energy needs, establish they also establish
minimum portions of the various meal components that the sponsor must serve to each child to
receive reimbursement for each meal.
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Cooke, Caroline
All menus submitted by sponsors will be reviewed for compliance by SDE.
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Cooke, Caroline
There is one meal pattern for breakfast and one meal pattern for both lunch and supper school.
Food authorities must use the online application to notify us of their intent to implement offer
versus serve. There is a statewide waiver for summer 2022 to allow school food authorities to
determine if they wish to implement offer versus serve using either the NSLPand SBP. That's the
National School lunch program or school breakfast program, meal pattern, or if they choose to use
the.
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Cooke, Caroline
SFSP meal pattern.
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Cooke, Caroline
The waiver also allows non-school food authorities to implement offer versus serve with the SFSP
meal pattern.
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Cooke, Caroline
SDE and USDA resources are available to assist in menu planning and implementation of offer
versus serve. Terese mentioned earlier that Susan Fiore took the opportunity during the public
health emergency to refresh and rebuild the CSDE SFSP webpages. The menu planning, crediting,
and documentation materials are robust and user-friendly. She created a master checklist summary
to ensure that as you plan your menu, you're including all food components.
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Cooke, Caroline
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And food items and required quantities, even those of you with amazing skills, that menu planning
and experience and SFSP will benefit from these resources.
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Cooke, Caroline
In certain cases, the CSDEmay be able to approve SFSP sponsors to serve meals that meet the meal
pattern requirements of other child nutrition programs. The reason for this is that the SFSP meal
pattern was really designed for children ages 6 through 12 years, so if you have younger children or
older children, it might be more appropriate to be using a different meal pattern for that particular
site. If this is a need that you might have for one or more of your sites, please reach out to your.
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Cooke, Caroline
This is just a really quick view of the SDE SFSP meal pattern resource. This is not the checklist
summary. The checklist summary is much more comprehensive. You fill it in and it helps you walk
through the process with your menu planning to make sure you've got everything that you need. But
this is your quick snapshot of what needs to be a part of each meal. Depending on the meal service.
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Cooke, Caroline
Keep in mind full strength vegetables or fruit juice cannot count for more than half of the fruit or
vegetable requirement. Fruit and vegetables are measured in volume, not weight, and two different
fruits or vegetables must be served each day at lunch or supper to equal at least ¾ of a cup. So you
could offer two fruits or two vegetables, or one of each.
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Cooke, Caroline
Best practices for fruits and vegetables is offering a variety of fruits and vegetables with summer
meals, we know that certain fruits and vegetables tend to be high on kids favorite lists, but it's still
really important that they see a variety. They're exposed to a variety and not every child has the same
favorites, so it's important to mix it up. Please consider incorporating the school vegetable
subgroups into your SFSP meals, and that is the red orange.
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Cooke, Caroline
Dark green, starchy legumes and other and don't forget to use Connecticut grown fruits and
vegetables, which are plentiful when school is out.
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Cooke, Caroline
It's important to use the serving sizes for grains in the Summer Food Service Program resource to
help determine the proper serving sizes. Remember that at this point, the SFSP meal pattern has not
been updated the way that the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and also
the Child And Adult Care Food Program have been updated. So we're still using a different set of
reference materials for the SFSP meal pattern. Each of those different types of grains or breads each
grouping is going to give you very specific.
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Cooke, Caroline
Amounts of what you need to ensure a minimum serving is provided, so please be using that
document actively as you're planning your menu and obviously a best practice is to incorporate
whole grain rich greens into summer meals for consistency with the meals served throughout the
school year, either through the National School Lunch Program or through the Child and Adult
Care Food Program. Please be aware that offering larger food items in the SFSP meal pattern does
not allow that food item to be counted as two food items.
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Cooke, Caroline
Such as a large sized bagel or muffin, it would still be credited as one serving of grain or bread. You
also cannot offer two of the same item and count them as two food items, such as two slices of
toast.
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Cooke, Caroline
So I'm going to take that example at the very end right into this slide with a discussion of breakfast.
So that means if you are choosing to implement offer versus serve with the SFSP meal pattern for
breakfast, you must offer for food items. That means that you need to have a milk, a grain, a fruit
and one additional item. You cannot, for example, have a large size bagel or muffin as your grain
item and count that.
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Cooke, Caroline
Has two food items. Nor can you have two slices of toast and count them as two food items for
lunch and supper. The SFAs meal pattern SFSP meal pattern is the same including the offer versus
serve requirements, so you must offer five food items from the four food components and for a
reimbursable meal, children must take three of the four food components. So the reason we say 4
food components is that under.
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Cooke, Caroline
SFSP, fruits and vegetables still count as one food component, but two different items must be
offered. That's why there's a minimum of five food items.
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Cooke, Caroline
Using the lunch and supper meal pattern, only one of the two fruit and or vegetable items must be
selected by the child for the fruit and vegetable component to be met.
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Cooke, Caroline
However, this does not apply if the meat, meat alternate component is split between two food items.
So if you have a four ounce yogurt and a one ounce string cheese, they have to take both of those
items in order for that one food component to be met.
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Cooke, Caroline
You may offer extra foods in addition to the items required for reimbursable meal foods that are
creditable as part of the reimbursable meal aren't allowed. Expenditure of SFSP funds. Foods that
are not creditable must have documentation available to reflect the income source of non CNP
funds that is supporting their expense. For example, a noncreditable item is ice cream, but you can
be cautiously creative and identify accreditable.
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Cooke, Caroline
A la carte sales are allowable, but are generally discouraged. Eliminating a la carte maximizes
participation and balanced reimbursable meals, and it also keeps your record keeping much cleaner.
It's definitely quicker for us when we come out to do an administrative review.
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Cooke, Caroline
Children may take a fruit, vegetable or grain item off site for later consumption. If you choose to
implement this opportunity, sponsors must use the online application to notify us of their intent to
implement this practice. It can only be done if it complies with state and local health and sanitation
code. If the sponsor has sufficient supervisory capacity to oversee this process, and if the item is
from the child's own meal or share table. However, I'm not sure that share tables are really a thing at
the moment.
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Cooke, Caroline
Sponsors must notify SDE regarding any site changes and receive SDE approval in writing prior to
changes being implemented. Again, please remember that the nationwide waiver of prior written
notification we had during summer 2020 is nothing but a sweet memory at this point in
communications with community partners. Please be clear that a reasonable time frame for
application approvals and site operation changes must be anticipated.
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Cooke, Caroline
Field trips are entered and approved in the online application system. They must be approved prior
to the day of the field trip. Please provide regular training to your site staff to ensure that they notify
you in a timely manner about field trips. Field trips cannot be added to the system until you receive
an approved application packet. Please let your SFSP county consultant know if you have any field
trips at the very beginning of your SFSP.
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Cooke, Caroline
Operations. We will document approval through email as an emergency interim stopgap if necessary
until you have an approved application packet back from us.
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Cooke, Caroline
In order for field trip request to be approved prior to the day of the field trip, you must enter them
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into the system as early as you can. You are taking a risk if you enter them the day before the field
trip and assume that we will see them and get them approved for you that quickly.
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Cooke, Caroline
All SFSP sponsors must advertise the availability of summer meals in their community. You know
that we assist you with this through updating the statewide and national meal site locators. But it's
also important any time that you are making changes to your site logistics that you're updating your
own advertisement of SFSP meal sites in your community.
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Cooke, Caroline
SFA is participating in the National School Lunch program, must conduct summer meals outreach,
even if they do not operate summer meals themselves. This provides you an opportunity to
collaborate with neighboring communities that may not be participating in summer meals or
offering summer meals within their own community to potentially drive up participation of your
own summer meals operations.
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Cooke, Caroline
Terese has an amazing SFSP outreach training scheduled as part of this training series on June 2nd,
2022 at 2:00 O'clock PM.
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Cooke, Caroline
Here's a very quick peek at the 2022 SFSP reimbursement rates. Many of you are familiar with them
through the waiver that allowed SSO sponsors to receive these reimbursement rates during the
school year this year.
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Cooke, Caroline
Maintaining a nonprofit food service account, it's not required that you maintain a separate account
for your SFSP funds. However, you must be able to document those funds independently or
separately from any other funds that are also maintained in that same account. So you need to be
retaining records of all revenues received, retaining records of all expenses.
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Cooke, Caroline
The records do not have to be regularly submitted to us, but they must be retained on file available
for state agency and auditor review expenses paid from the nonprofit Food service account must be
allowable costs that are necessary, reasonable and properly documented.
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Cooke, Caroline
This is just a quick differentiation that I want to provide you for you between excess funds and
unused reimbursements. Excess funds refers to the difference between any advanced funding and
reimbursement funding when advanced funds were received by a sponsor that are greater than the
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reimbursement amount that was earned by the sponsor. And these funds must be collected back by
the state agency. So if you submitted for an advance and then.
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Cooke, Caroline
Conducted the operations for the month that was associated with that advance of funds and you did
not serve sufficient meals.
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Cooke, Caroline
To receive that amount of money in reimbursement dollars, you would have to return to the state
agency. Any funds above what you earned through actual distribution of meals. Unused
reimbursements refers to the difference between the amount claimed for reimbursement and actual
costs. Should reimbursement exceed costs. So this means if you are extremely savvy with your
resources and you're able to.
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Cooke, Caroline
Keep the cost of your food nonfood, items, staffing and all of your other expenses under what
you're receiving for reimbursement dollars. It means you've got money leftover so those funds do
not have to be returned back to the state. Agency FNS expects management of resources that does
not result in a significant amount of unused reimbursement. They intend you to use the
reimbursement to provide a robust meal service. It can be used for startup.
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Cooke, Caroline
And the following year can also be used to improve the meal service or management of the program
so you can buy more food, you can hire more staff. It can be used to pay allowable costs of other
child nutrition programs. I can tell you when Terese and I come out to do administrative reviews, if
we find that that's the case, we will want to know that you're aware of how much.
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Cooke, Caroline
Unused SFSP reimbursement dollars is being used in other programs. It's OK to make those
decisions. We just want to make sure that you're making them conscientiously, that you're
understanding what's coming in for each program and providing a really good service for the dollars
that you get for that program.
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Cooke, Caroline
Unused reimbursement dollars cannot be used to fund activities or parent meals.
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Cooke, Caroline
Records must be retained for the current year, and the three preceding years. SFSP application
instructions do identify for you items that you need to update and return retain in your files each
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year. There are some items that you don't have to submit with the application, but you do need to
update them and keep them in your files for when we come out to do an administrative review.
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Cooke, Caroline
Your inventory records and combination with invoices and receipts of purchases made throughout
summer. The summer operating period should allow the calculation of how much was spent on
food and nonfood items to support the program. So you should have a beginning inventory, you
should have documentation of your purchases throughout the summer operating period and you
should have an ending inventory. This really applies more to programs that are operating.
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Cooke, Caroline
Around the year, so 12 months a year by operating a number of child nutrition programs. So if for
example, you operate the National School lunch Program and you do your end of school inventory,
that is also your start of summer inventory.
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Cooke, Caroline
Self prep sponsors do need to maintain menus, keep accurate inventory records, maintain your daily
meal, count forms, and keep itemized receipts of foods purchased. Vending sponsors will need to
maintain daily meal count forms, delivery receipts and invoices for meals purchased.
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Cooke, Caroline
We're going to go through some records that are needed to support your claims for reimbursement.
You would need to have records of meal counts. So both first and second meals served to eligible
children taken daily at each site. You must have separate counts of first and second meals to
determine the number of second meals that may be cleaned. You may only claim up to 2% of the
number of first meals that you served.
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Cooke, Caroline
You would also have delivery receipts, production records or alternative methods to demonstrate.
Reimbursable meals were composed.
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Cooke, Caroline
Meals that are not reported in the reimbursement claim, but you must maintain records on our
meals that are served to ineligible children in camps. Meals served to program adults, meals served
to nonprogram adults, meals that are spoiled or damaged, meals in excess of the sites approved, level
of service, and meals that were not served.
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Cooke, Caroline
Additional meals that are not reimbursable meals are meals that were not served as a complete unit
unless it was an implementation of offer versus serve meal patterns or types that were not approved
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by SDE. Meals that were served at sites not approved by the SDE or outside the approved meal
service times and meals that were consumed off-site. Assuming of course that there was not a non
congregate waiver in place.
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Cooke, Caroline
All meals are claimed at the meal site level. You must develop a system to compile daily meal counts
into monthly meal counts and it needs to be a system that Terese and I can follow along with when
we come out to do an administrative review. So you're going to lock us in a room with all your daily
meal count sheets and your whatever system you've come up with to transform those piles of daily
pieces of paper into a monthly claim. And we have to go through them and make sure that things
match up.
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Cooke, Caroline
We don't currently have any sponsors contracting with the food service management company
outside of an NSLP agreement, meaning specifically just for the Summer Food Service Program. But
these procurement requirements apply to all purchases with SFSP funds, so we're going to do a
quick review to make sure we're all on the same page for proper procurement. So under $250,000 or
possibly lower, if your local regulations are more stringent, you would need three quotes.
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Cooke, Caroline
You would choose the lowest responsive responsible bidder. You would document all of
communications with potential bidders and you would ensure that there's equal access to
specification and information for all potential vendors.
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Cooke, Caroline
Within this small purchase threshold is a micro purchase threshold.
00:49:15.200 --> 00:49:16.610
Cooke, Caroline
And that could be.
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Cooke, Caroline
Significantly lower depending on your local regulations, so some organizations have a micro
purchase threshold of $2000 or $5000.
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Cooke, Caroline
Under those smaller amounts, purchases are not competitive, but they must be dispersed among all
potential vendors in the community. So that means, for example, if you're making a purchase from a
grocery store, if you live in a community where there's three local grocery stores, you would need to
distribute those small purchases among all of the three grocery stores for equal access to federal
funds.
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Cooke, Caroline
For procurement of over $250,000, there does have to be a public announcement of at least 14 days.
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Cooke, Caroline
CSDE must approve the public announcement prior to publishing.
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Cooke, Caroline
You would have a public opening that the state would be present for.
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Cooke, Caroline
It would include food specifications and meal quality standards, cycle menu, any increases per
amendment must have been stated in the original IFB and contract, so everything needs to be
spelled out, and fortunately we have Andrew Paul in our office who's extremely knowledgeable
about these contracts, provides lots of resource documents so that you don't have to come up with
them from scratch on your own.
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Cooke, Caroline
Will work with you and review your documents along the way so that as you reach these
benchmarks where you're going out to the public announcement, doing the public opening, all of
those things you already have, all of your ducks in a row to make sure that everything is lined up the
way it should be.
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Cooke, Caroline
To complete.
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Cooke, Caroline
Umm, one of the larger purchases we do have such resources as a Recommendation for Bid Award,
a sponsor, Vendor, award, conference checklist and a list of all of the items that would be part of
that entire process. And as the final bullet says, communication is the key, so it's much easier to go
through this lengthy, highly specified process. Walking through the process together as opposed to
going through it and us getting everything at the end and.
00:51:35.150 --> 00:51:35.490
Cooke, Caroline
And.
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Cooke, Caroline
Finding areas possibly going all the way back to the beginning that need to be either corrected or
redone. We never want that to happen, so we're very happy to have Andy to help us with this.
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Cooke, Caroline
And these are just some very specific resources that help with that process. So items to help you
with the proper procurement of competitive procurement. So the Super Circular 200 procurement
standards guidance on competitive procurement standards, all of those good things. Just in case you
have insomnia, they are available for you.
00:52:12.610 --> 00:52:23.550
Cooke, Caroline
A reminder that contracting with the food service management company is initially a one year
contract with options for four additional one year contract amendments.
00:52:27.490 --> 00:52:29.530
Cooke, Caroline
And I'm happy to say.
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Cooke, Caroline
This is the fastest the regulations.
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Cooke, Caroline
Webinar or in person training has ever cooked on so I say that's good job to Terese and myself and
also to Shannon for her very quick welcome address.
00:52:45.730 --> 00:52:54.080
Cooke, Caroline
And I'm just going to take a really quick peek. I see we have a long note here, so I'm going to be
quiet for just a second while I read it. So I don't try and read and talk at the same time.
00:52:55.620 --> 00:52:57.510
Yearwood, Shannon
Caroline, would you like me to read it out loud to you?
00:52:57.570 --> 00:52:58.000
Cooke, Caroline
Sure.
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Yearwood, Shannon
All right, so I have a question for the Q&A portion. This is regarding the reimbursement rate for
SFSP for food service management company site. We are currently receiving the full summer Food
Service Program. Reimbursement rate amount. Will we be reduced the vended amount noted on the
slide for the summer program versus the school year program this summer or will we still be
receiving the full reimbursement amount as we currently are?
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Cooke, Caroline
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OK. That's a great question, Sherry. I would say slightly controversial question, but still a great
question nonetheless. To my knowledge, there has been nothing that says anything different other
than back to normal business as usual pertaining to SFSP meal reimbursement rates. So you would
be going back to the SFSP meal reimbursement rate as of ended sponsor. So East Hartford Public
Schools is the sponsor, they would receive the vended rate.
00:53:55.100 --> 00:53:55.950
Cooke, Caroline
For SFSP.
00:53:56.590 --> 00:53:57.210
Cooke, Caroline
Good question.
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Yearwood, Shannon
Yeah, and that's absolutely right, Caroline. The so with the USDA waiver, flexibility is not
continuing past July 1st. That is an act of Congress. And so what that means is even though in
Caroline did allude to us applying for some of the flexibilities that we will be able to.
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Yearwood, Shannon
To to implement this year, if we are approved, one of the caveats to that is we cannot cost the
federal government anymore fund any more money than what normal program operations would
be. And so just if you kind of have that in mind as you're thinking about basically if it costs more
than it normally would, which would definitely include their enhanced reimbursement rates, then it's
not continuing beyond June 30th of this year.
00:54:47.250 --> 00:54:50.810
Yearwood, Shannon
So they don't see any more questions in the chat.
00:54:51.210 --> 00:55:21.160
Yearwood, Shannon
Umm, but I'm sure that everybody here has you know what I'm gonna say, bookmarked program
guidance for you who are for those of you who are new to Summer Food Service Program or just
having bookmarked that yet. Please note that when you do go into our summer food service
program, webpages that you will be able to access a different type of program resources. Then you
see on our primary on our school nutrition pages. So just keep that in mind the.
00:55:21.230 --> 00:55:31.290
Yearwood, Shannon
The program guidance is different and in list is specifically for the different programs. So if you're
on that school nutrition one, you may not find your Summer Food Service Program resources that
you're looking for.
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Yearwood, Shannon
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