ORIENTATION TO THE SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS. Lindsay Blough-Mabie, M.S. Illinois State Board of Education Nutrition & Wellness Programs

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1 ORIENTATION TO THE SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS Lindsay Blough-Mabie, M.S. Illinois State Board of Education Nutrition & Wellness Programs

2 AGENDA Overview of the Child Nutrition Programs Certification of Eligibility & Direct Certification Verification of Eligibility Benefit Issuance & Meal Counting Menu Planning Federal and State Miscellaneous Regulations WINS System Reviews USDA Foods The information that I am providing today is a broad overview of many of the requirements of the School Nutrition Programs, this is in no way covers all areas in the detail needed to administer the programs. Therefore, we highly recommend the following additional resources: Administrative Handbook Archived Webinars Our website Additional sessions offered during this Conference Keep your eye out for other trainings and/or webinars we provide throughout the year.

3 OVERVIEW OF CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

4 COMMONLY USED ACRONYMS ISBE: Illinois State Board of Education SNP: School Nutrition Programs NSLP: National School Lunch Program IWAS: Illinois Web Application Security WINS: Web-based Illinois Nutrition System VSR: Verification Summary Report FSMC: Food Service Management Company SFSP: Summer Food Service Program LEA: Local Educational Agency CACFP: Child & Adult Care Food Program PLE: Paid Lunch Equity SFA: School Food Authority SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program TANF: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families HEA: Household Eligibility Application

5 TERMINOLOGIES SFA = School Food Authority LEA = Local Educational Agency Sponsor = sponsoring organization, this may be the church, the public school district, the non-profit organization that is legally responsible for the school/site. All 3 of these terms are often used interchangeably. Anytime that you contact our office, we will want to know the name of your sponsor/lea/sfa in case we need to look you up in the electronic system.

6 TERMINOLOGIES Agreement number or RCDT #: both of these terms are referring to the same thing. Each sponsor/sfa/lea is given a number to identify them by. The numbers are in this order XX-XXX-XXXX- XX and may or may not include letters. Much of our paperwork requires you to put this identifying number on it, so I would suggest writing it down and having it someplace handy. We also may ask for it if you contact our office with a question. Additionally, each site you have in our programs is given a 5 digit site number.

7 Child Nutrition Programs CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS School Nutrition Programs (SNP) Child & Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Summer Food Service Program

8 SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS National School Lunch Program National School Breakfast Program Illinois Free Lunch Program Illinois Free breakfast Program After School Snack Program Special Milk Program

9 SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS Who Can Participate? Public Schools Non-Public Schools that are registered with ISBE & non-profit Residential Child Care Institutions Program Requirements: Nutritional Requirements Service Requirements Financial Requirements Certification Requirements State Requirements

10 SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS Eligible Children: All Children enrolled at a participating site may have the option to receive a meal. Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals. Those between 130 and 185 are eligible for reduced price meals. Students eligible for reduced price meals can be charged no more than 40 cents for a reimbursable lunch, 30 cents for breakfast and 15 cents for snacks.

11 THE USDA REQUIRES SPECIFIC FOOD COMPONENTS TO BE SERVED IN REQUIRED AMOUNTS BASED ON THE GRADE LEVEL OF THE STUDENTS BEING SERVED. THE REQUIRED MEAL COMPONENTS ARE: MILK, GRAINS, MEAT/MEAT ALTERNATES, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Menu Planning

12 REIMBURSEMENT Sponsors in our programs receive reimbursement for each meal that meets program requirements. These meals must be counted by the number of free, reduced and paid meals served. (unless they are in CEP) Each month the sponsor will need to submit a claim through the WINS system and that is how the amount of reimbursement is determined & distributed. The USDA determines the reimbursement rates annually for all meal and milk programs.

13 REIMBURSEMENT The greater than 60% reimbursement level is used if greater than 60% of the lunches served by the entire SFA/sponsor in the second preceding school year were served at the free and/or reduced price. More F/R = higher rate of reimbursement! 6 Cents 99.9% of schools in IL receive the extra 6 cents. The only ones that don t were certified, but had it taken away due to findings of non-compliance during an Administrative Review. Severe Need - this is site level data and is for sites in which at least 40% or more of the lunches claimed in the second preceding year were served free and/or reduced. Again more F/R = higher rate of reimbursement

14 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

15 NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM Provides healthy well rounded lunches to students. Meals must meet meal pattern requirements by grade group Free, reduced and paid eligibility must be determined and documentation maintained. Lunches are claimed based on the number of free, reduced and paid lunches served each day.

16 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM

17 SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM Provides healthy well rounded breakfasts to students. Meals must meet meal pattern requirements by grade group Free, reduced and paid eligibility must be determined and documentation maintained. breakfasts are claimed based on the number of free, reduced and paid lunches served each day.

18 SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM

19 SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM The special milk program is available to the same organizations as the other SNP. The SMP is for children that don t have access to the NSLP or SBP. Sites can not be in the NSLP and/or SBP AND the SMP. The only exception is if there was a school that was in NSLP for their K-12 students, but their PK program is a ½ day program and they leave before lunch is served. Those PK students could be in the SMP because they don t have access to the NSLP. But the K-12 students would only be in the NSLP. There are 3 options with the milk program. Free/pricing program Paid/pricing program Paid/non-pricing program Please contact our office if you are interested in learning more about the SMP.

20 AFTER SCHOOL SNACK PROGRAM

21 AFTER SCHOOL SNACK PROGRAM Provides healthy well rounded snacks to students. Snacks must meet meal pattern requirements by grade group There must be an academic enrichment activity associated with the after school program. There are 2 options based on eligibility of the site. Sites that have at least 50% free and reduced eligibility are able to participate in the snack programs through a reimbursement program called area eligibility in which all snacks are claimed free and get that higher rate of reimbursement. They would just keep track of the total number of snacks served instead of by free, reduced and paid. If the site is not area eligible then they would need to take counts by free, reduced and paid eligibility and documentation must be maintained.

22 OTHER CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

23 CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM The Child and Adult Care Food Program is available to non-profit and for-profit nonresidential child care centers; family day care homes; Head Start centers; and outside of school hours child care programs. The adult care portion of the program is administered by the Department on Aging. Some of our schools do participate in the outside of school hours program, which can include the supper program.

24 SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM The SFSP provides nutritious meals to children during the summer months when school is not in session. Schools have 2 summer options available: SFSP Seamless Summer Option (SSO)

25 CONTACT INFORMATION Applications, program requirements, rules & regulations of SNP 800/ USDA Foods & DoD 800/ Claim, claiming system, reimbursement & payments 217/

26 OUTLOOK NEWSLETTER The Authorized Representative & Contact Person on your application in WINS will automatically receive the Outlook monthly to their . Others can get on the listserv by ing to request added. We put out a monthly electronic newsletter called the Outlook, which provides updates on program administration. Some examples include: Upcoming Due Dates New USDA Regulations, rules, memos New tools or resources Success Stories Grant Opportunities Trainings

27 TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES The Administrative Handbook includes a calendar with important due dates and reminders that can be very helpful in planning your year and ensuring that you get everything in on time.

28 CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY

29 WHAT IS CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY? In the School Nutrition Programs (unless a school is in CEP) every student must be determined as eligible for free, reduced or paid meals. This can be through any of the following methods: Direct Certification Household Eligibility Application (HEA) Extension of Benefits Homeless, Migrant, Runaway listings

30 ELECTRONIC DIRECT CERTIFICATION Online System accessed through WINS We provide reports of matches of students enrolled in your school with who are on SNAP, TANF, Income Eligible Medicaid, homeless and foster. Public schools provided with a monthly match Non-public schools need to upload a file into the system for matches Single child match

31 ELECTRONIC DIRECT CERTIFICATION Process: Start by checking direct certification Go through your list and verify which students on the list are enrolled in your school. There are close and exact matches in the direct certification system. Any students found are eligible for free meals with no additional documentation needed. A letter should be provided to households that are found in DC All other students (not on DC) will need to receive a Household Eligibility Application (HEA) Please note: you will not have access to this electronic system until you are approved for the meal programs, therefore if you are a new sponsor, you may not have access to this system yet, so you may need to start with gathering Household Eligibility Applications first, but in future years the first thing you will check each year is this electronic system and then you will provide Household Eligibility Applications to any households NOT found in that electronic system.

32 EXTENSION OF BENEFITS Extension of Benefits is the extension of benefits for free meals to ALL members of the same household if anyone in the household is found in the electronic system. Ex. If you had a household that had 2 household members that are enrolled in school, lets use John and Sarah and Sarah is located in that electronic system but John is not, since they live in the same household you can extend those free benefits from Sarah to John. You will use our sample Extension of Benefits form to document that you extended benefits from (ex. Sarah to John) and maintain a copy of that form for your records. Then you provide an approval letter to the household to let them know (ex. Sarah and John) are approved for free meals.

33 HOUSEHOLD ELIGIBILITY APPLICATIONS For any households that were not located in the electronic direct certification system, you must provide them with a Household Eligibility Application they can complete and return to you. Once you receive that application back from the household, you must review it for completeness and determine their eligibility as free, reduced or paid.

34 HOUSEHOLD ELIGIBILITY APPLICATION You will determine their eligibility for free, reduced or paid meals based on: Income and household size (based on a chart provided annually in the Administrative Handbook). Approvable SNAP or TANF case id number (approvable numbers are located in the Administrative Handbook). If marked as homeless, migrant or runaway that application must be approved by your homeless liaison and/or migrant/runaway caseworker. Additionally, your homeless liaison can provide you with a listing of homeless students that they sign and you can provide those students with free meals. Please review the Administrative Handbook for more in depth information on certifying Household Eligibility Applications. Note households must be provided with the application but can NOT be required to complete them. Note you must ALWAYS maintain documentation of how a student was determined to be eligible for free or reduced meals.

35 HOUSEHOLD ELIGIBILITY APPLICATION These are the income guidelines that you would use to determine if a household is eligible for free, reduced or paid meals based on their income and household size. For ex. if a household applies at there is a total of 4 household members and they make $2500 per month based on this chart they would be eligible for free meals because they make less than $2665 per month.

36 HOUSEHOLD ELIGIBILITY APPLICATION Applicants can provide the SNAP or TANF number of any household member on the HEA. If that SNAP or TANF number matches the sequencing that we provide to you then children listed on that application can be determined as eligible for free meals. We would recommend that you try to look this number up in the DC system if found you can directly certify them. If you do not find them then go ahead and process the application and make a determination on if the number matches the sequencing.

37 CERTIFICATION FORMS HEA must include the letter to the household, application & instructions. We also have the HEA in Spanish Under Additional Forms you will find the: denial/approval letter for HEA s approval letter for Direct Cert Extension of benefits form and more

38 DOCUMENTATION You MUST maintain documentation of eligibility. When we come out and do reviews we will look through your documentation. Documentation must be maintained for a minimum of 3 years plus the current and longer if you have any reviews that are not closed yet. Documentation must be kept in a secure area where Only need to know staff have access.

39 SESSION ON DIRECT CERTIFICATION & CERTIFICATION Direct Certification & Certification Thursday Aug 3 7:30am-9:45am (double session) Room #1

40 VERIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY

41 WHAT IS VERIFICATION? Verification is basically checking the information provided on a Household Eligibility Application for accuracy. This could include checking a SNAP or TANF number on an application in the direct certification system. OR It could include requesting documentation of income from a household. verification is only conducted on application, there is no verification of information in the DC system. (this is why we recommend directly certifying as many students as possible).

42 WHAT IS THE VERIFICATION SUMMARY REPORT? Annually you are required to complete the verification process and complete the Verification Summary Report (VSR). The verification process requires that you check no more and no less than 3% of your APPLICATIONS (only paper applications). The only time that you can verify applications is if they are a part of your 3% verification sample or if they are a verification for cause (which I will go over later).

43 BASICS OF VERIFICATION Step 1: select your 3% sample Step 2: if the application is free based on SNAP or TANF you can check the electronic direct certification system first, if not found then send a request to the family asking for proof of their SNAP or TANF benefits. If the application is based on income send a request to the family asking for proof of their income. Step 3: household provides proof = if it backs up their app they are done, if it does not back up the info on their app you must change them to the correct category (free, reduced or paid). Household does NOT provide proof = change them to paid eligible

44 BASICS OF THE VSR Once all of your 3% applications have been verified complete the online VSR to report to ISBE the results of your verification process. If you start the program late in the year, you may not be required to do the VSR but you are still required to do the verification process, so you would still check your 3% but you would not be required to complete the online report. Check with our office to see if you are required to do the report.

45 VERIFICATION FOR CAUSE Verification for cause is outside of the 3% sample that you are required to do. Verification for cause is an option that you may have if you have direct knowledge that information on the household application is incorrect. Direct knowledge is just that, you must KNOW that the info provided is incorrect, it can not be based on the car someone drives or the cloths they wear. Ex. If a parent states that they do not have a job on the household application but when they fill out other paperwork for school they put down their work phone number = that is direct knowledge.

46 SESSION ON VERIFICATION Verification Thursday Aug 3 12:45pm-1:45pm Room #3

47 BENEFIT ISSUANCE & MEAL COUNTING

48 BENEFIT ISSUANCE Benefit issuance documents or determines how students are claimed on a daily basis. Basically, benefit issuance documentation communicates the approval category (free, reduced or paid) for each student and helps to take and maintain accurate daily meal counts by category. Examples of benefit issuance include: Rosters Tickets Tokens Bar code cards Student identification cards Biometrics Pin pads

49 COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY PROVISION (CEP) There is an alternative to traditional meal counting and claiming for schools with very high free eligibility. CEP uses direct certification, extension of benefits and homeless/migrant/runaway listings to determine a percentage. This percentage must be at least 40% to participate. That percentage is multiplied by 1.6 and a CEP percentage is determined. With CEP schools, they do not determine individual student statuses they serve all students breakfast and lunch at no cost, keep track of the total number of meals served each day and then apply their CEP percentage to the number of meals and that is how their reimbursement is paid to them.

50 BENEFIT ISSUANCE Benefit issuance documents must be updated when a change occurs in a students benefits. Some examples of when student benefits may change: Verification findings Student transfers Change in household size, income or receipt of SNAP/TANF/Medicaid If a students benefits increase that change must be made within 3 operating days of the new determination. If a students benefits decrease the household must be notified and provided 10 calendar days written advanced notice of the change.

51 MEAL COUNTING Meal counting must be done by eligibility category without overtly identifying a students eligibility as free, reduced or paid. In other words the manner in which you count your meals should not allow anyone, other than you or allowable staff, to know if a student is free, reduced or paid. You can only claim 1 reimbursable meal per meal student that receives one, ex. If eligible for reduce price meals, you can only claim 1 lunch for that student, if they want a 2 nd meal that would be a la carte and they should pay full price and you can not claim that meal. Your meal counting mechanism must ensure that you can not claim more than 1 meal per student. Meal counting must take place at the Point of Service (POS) meaning the end of the line where you can see that the child has a complete meal with all of the required components.

52 MEAL COUNTING allowable Checklist (that does not overtly identify students) Computerized scan cards Computerized pin pad (students are given a code they put in the pin pad to identify themselves) Tickets (that does not overtly identify) Meal count at the end of the line after ALL meal components are obtained. Not allowable Checklist with F, R, P next to the name. Student has to say if they are free, reduced or paid Tickets that have F, R, P on them or colors that indicate free, reduced or paid (too overt) Meal counting based on a morning meal prep count. Meal count based on the number of meals delivered to the school. Meal count based on a tray count Meal count before the students can get their milk.

53 MEAL CLAIMING Each month you are required to complete and submit your monthly claim. The claim form will require the number of free meals, reduced meals and paid meals served each day. The monthly claim will also ask for additional data regarding your enrollment, average daily attendance, and free, reduced and paid eligibles. You are also required to complete a monthly meal count edit form, which can be found on our website.

54 MEAL CLAIMING Meal claims are recommended to be completed within 10 days after the month in which you are claiming. However, according to USDA regulations you have up to 60 days from the last day of the month you are claiming to submit your claim. Just keep in mind the sooner you submit your claim the sooner you will receive your reimbursement.

55 SESSIONS ON BENEFIT ISSUANCE & MEAL COUNTING Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Wed Aug 2 12:00-1:00pm Room #3 Benefit Issuance, Meal Counting & Claiming Wed Aug 2 4:00pm-5:00pm Room #3

56 MENU PLANNING

57 MENU PLANNING Each meal program has specific requirements for what must be included in a complete meal. Serving sizes are required for each food component based on the grade group they are in K-5, 6-8, or Food Components: Meat/meat alternate Grain Fruit Vegetable milk All required food components in the required serving sizes are required in order to receive reimbursement for that meal. More resources available on our webpage at:

58 MENU PLANNING REQUIREMENT CHART

59 MENU PLANNING REQUIREMENT CHART

60 MEAL PATTERN - MEASUREMENTS Ounce Equivalents Cups Fruit Vegetables Milk Grain Meat/Meat Alternate

61 VEGETABLE SUBGROUPS

62 GRAINS All grains offered must be Whole Grain Rich (WGR) WGR means that at least 50% of the grains in that item must be whole grains. A grain chart must be used to determine the ounce equivalents for each grain that you are serving. There is a cap on the amount of grain based desserts that can be served of 2 oz eq per week.

63 MEAT/MEAT ALTERNATES

64 MILK Allowable milk options: -Fat-free (unflavored or flavored) -Low-fat (unflavored only) -Lactose-reduced or lactose-free lowfat or fat-free Must offer at least two choices Does not alter nutrition standards for milk substitutes

65 OFFER VS SERVE Offer vs. Serve (OVS) is a way to cut down on plate waste in which you have to offer all of the required food components but students can decline to take some of them. For lunch you would offer all 5 required food components and students can decline up to 2 of those components, but they MUST take at least 1 full serving of a fruit or vegetable. Ex. Meal is a chicken sandwich (meat & grain), green beans (veg), orange slices (fruit) and milk they decline the beans and the milk this is still a complete meal if you opt for OVS. OVS can be a bit confusing so please review it in the Administrative Handbook for more information. OVS is optional for grades K-8 and is required for 9-12.

66 OFFER VS SERVE Why would we do OVS? It can cut down on waste. This way students can decline items they do not want and they do not get wasted/thrown in the trash. Why would we NOT do OVS? With young students the amount of time it takes to make choices can slow down the efficiency of the service line. If the site would like to serve all food items to introduce students to different food items & provide all of the food groups with their meal.

67 CYCLE MENUS

68 CYCLE MENUS Reduce the labor planning menus Reduce plate waste Purchasing/planning Increase participation

69 DOCUMENTATION & CREDITING Determining how much each component credits can be determined in couple of different ways. Nutrition Facts label (as we already discussed for grain oz eq). CN labels USDA Foods Fact Sheets Manufacturer Statements Food Buying Guide This information is needed to help you with menu planning & to serve as documentation. If/when we come to do a visit, you will need documentation to back up how you know how items credit on your menu.

70 DOCUMENTATION & CREDITING Nutrition Facts Label CN Label

71 DOCUMENTATION & CREDITING USDA Foods Facts Label Manufacturers Statement All USDA Foods Facts Labels can be found online at:

72 DOCUMENTATION & CREDITING Food Buying Guide

73 STANDARDIZED RECIPES 2 or more ingredients Consistent product Nutrient standards Control costs

74 PRODUCTION RECORDS Production records are a required form that must be used every day. Why? To provide staff information regarding the foods, recipes, and portion sizes for the meal. To record projected and actual amounts of foods served. To provide uniformity

75 PRODUCTION RECORDS What MUST be on a production record: Food components and other items (ex. condiments). Recipe used or food product used (USDA Foods should be indicated with a C and processed USDA Foods with a PC ) Planned/projected number of student portions and serving sizes for each grade group Planned/projected number of adult portions and serving sizes Total amount of food prepared (ex. # of servings, pounds, cans, etc) Number of reimbursable meals served Actual number of non-reimbursable meals served (adult/a la carte) Leftovers and substitutions

76 SESSIONS ON MENU PLANNING Menu Planning for Lunch Wed Aug 2 12:00-1:00pm Room #2 Menu Planning for Breakfast Wed Aug 2 2:45pm-3:45pm Room #2 Impact of New CACFP Meal Pattern on Schools Wed Aug 2 4:00pm-5:00pm Room #2

77 FEDERAL & STATE MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS

78 FEE WAIVERS (PUBLIC SCHOOLS) Under Illinois law, school districts are required to waive charges for textbooks and other fees for children whose families are unable to afford them, including children eligible for the federal free lunch and breakfast program, and for any other extenuating circumstances for which the school board will waive fees as communicated in its adopted policy (e.g., reduced-price lunch or medical emergencies). [105 ILCS 5/ and ]

79 MEAL SERVICE MANDATES Illinois Free Lunch and Breakfast Programs Mandate Every public school, including public special education facilities, must have a free lunch program that provides free lunches (and free breakfasts if a school offers breakfast) to students eligible to receive free meals. Summer Food Service Mandate every public school in which at least 50 percent of the students were eligible for free and reduced-price lunches in October of the preceding year* AND has a summer program operating during the summer months must provide a summer breakfast and/or lunch program for the children in that community. School Breakfast Program Mandates Every public school in which at least 40 percent of the students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunches in October of the preceding year* must operate a school breakfast program. Every public school in which at least 70 percent of the students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunches in October of the preceding year* must operate a breakfast after the bell program. Breakfast after the bell means breakfast is provided to children after the instructional day has officially begun and does not prohibit schools from also providing breakfast before instructional day begins.

80 MEAL SERVICE TIMES AND ACCESS Schools participating in the National School Lunch and/or School Breakfast Programs must offer lunch between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, unless exempted by USDA through ISBE, and breakfast at or close to the beginning of the child s school day. Schools are encouraged to provide sufficient lunch periods that give all students enough time to be served and to eat their lunches; at least ten minutes after receiving breakfast and twenty minutes after receiving lunch. Schools must provide access to meals to all students who are enrolled and present during meal services. Meal(s) must be served on days when school is in session for 300 minutes (5 hours) or more.

81 MEAL SERVICE DELIVERY OPTIONS Sponsors have five options for delivery of meal services, the first four of which must be reviewed and approved by ISBE: 1) Food Service Management Company Contract For more information on this option, refer to the Procurement section of this handbook. 2) Vended Meals Contract For more information on this option, refer to the Procurement section of this handbook. 3) School-to-School Agreement For more information on this option, refer to the Procurement section of this handbook. 4) Alternate Agreement This option is an agreement between the SFAs must state that SFA #1 is accepting total legal and financial responsibility for the newly incorporated School Food Authority s (SFA #2 s) meal program(s), including not only paying over-claims as a result of administrative reviews, utilization of USDA Foods, and complying with program regulations, but daily meal service. 5) Self-prep Under this option, the SFA/sponsor of federal meal program purchases, prepares and serves on their own following Child Nutrition Program regulations.

82 RECORD RETENTION Documentation related to the school-based child nutrition program must be maintained on file at the site or the SFA office for the current year, plus three years prior. In the case of an audit or investigation which extends beyond the three years plus current year, documents must be kept until the audit or investigation is completed. Documentation refers to any materials related to certification, verification, benefit issuance and claiming, including but not limited to, Household Eligibility Applications, verification letters to families, verification documents received from families, submitted menus, production records, and procurement.

83 LOCAL WELLNESS POLICY All sites that participate in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) must have a Local Wellness Policy (LWP). LWP must include information on: Nutrition education Physical activity Foods and drinks sold to students Food and beverages, not sold, but provided to students Nutrition promotion Food and beverage marketing Informing the community, leadership, and more

84 ACCOMMODATING CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR SPECIAL DIETARY NEEDS Sites in our programs may receive requests for changes or accommodations to meals or milk from parents/guardians. We calls this an accommodation. Some of the accommodation requests will be due to disabilities these request accompanied by the required documentation MUST be provided at no additional cost. Some of the accommodation requests will be due to likes, dislikes, preferences, etc these requests are not required to provided. If the site would like to make these accommodations but it is not due to a disability with the required documentation then the meal must still meet the meal pattern requirements in order to be claimed. Ex. if a student does not like peaches and would like pineapple instead, the site is not required to make this accommodation, but can if they would like to since pineapple would still meet the meal pattern requirements. However, if someone would like to replace milk with water because they just don t like milk water is not nutritionally equivalent to milk therefor, if the site makes this accommodation, they can not claim that meal for reimbursement because it does not meet the meal pattern requirements.

85 USE OF FUNDS IN THE NONPROFIT SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE ACCOUNT Revenues received by the nonprofit school food service area are to be used only for the operation or improvement of such food service, except that such revenues shall not be used to purchase land or buildings or to construct buildings. The SFA shall limit its net cash resources to an amount that does not exceed three months average expenditures for its nonprofit school food service.

86 MEAL PRICING Children eligible for free meals, can receive one free complete reimbursable meal per meal service. Children eligible for reduced-price meals must be offered one reimbursable meal at reduced rate. Second meals cannot be claimed for reimbursement. The current maximum prices for reducedprice meal are: 40 cents for lunch 30 cents for breakfast 15 cents for after-school snacks Paid lunch prices are established using the Paid Lunch Equity calculator. Schools must use the Paid Lunch Equity (PLE) calculator every year to determine how much they need to increase their price or if they wish to pay funds into the non-profit school lunch account from non-federal funds to cover the increase the calculator will help to determine the amount that is required.

87 FOOD SAFETY PLAN SFAs are responsible for developing a comprehensive food safety plan for food preparation and service site(s) that is based Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles and must conform to guidance issued by the USDA. A school food safety program must include the following elements: A Written Food Safety Plan Documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Each school year, an SFA must obtain two food sanitation inspections for each site where food is prepared or served. For most counties, the local health department will conduct such inspections. The Food Handler Training Enforcement Act requires all food service area employees or food handlers that work with open/unpackaged foods, food service equipment or utensils, or any food contact surfaces to receive an approved food handler training.

88 PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS The standards seek to ensure that State and local school nutrition program personnel in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs have the knowledge and skills to manage and operate the programs correctly and successfully. Professional Standards include requirements for: Annual training requirements. The number of required training hours is broken down by job title and full-time vs. part-time employees Hiring standards for Food Service Directors Requirements for providing training hours for State Directors

89 SESSION ON MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS There are a wide variety of sessions that cover in more detail many of the topic areas that I just barely touched on please refer to your booklet to locate these sessions which will provide more detail about many of these topics.

90 PROCUREMENT

91 PROCUREMENT ON THE WEBSITE

92 PROCUREMENT Procurement means the process of obtaining goods and/or services in accordance with applicable rules and regulations.

93 PRINCIPALS OF GOOD PROCUREMENT Free and Open Competition Fairness and Integrity Responsive and Responsible

94 GENERAL PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS All procurement transactions must be conducted in a manner that provides maximum open and free competition. Procurement procedures must ensure they do not foster noncompetitive practices between firms, do not create organizational conflicts of interest, and do not restrict or eliminate competition. Procurement must not place unreasonable requirements on firms, require unnecessary experience, or establish unrealistic bonding requirements. Cost plus a percentage of purchase is not an allowable system.

95 TYPES OF PROCUREMENT Micro Purchase Procurement by micro-purchase is the acquisition of supplies or services, the aggregate dollar amount of which does not exceed $3,500. Can just purchase item(s) Informal Purchase is below a set threshold (based on the items/type of purchase. 3 bids & a buy Formal Purchase is above a set threshold (based on the items/type of purchase) Sealed Bids (IFBs) or Competitively bid

96 ANNUAL LEVELS AT WHICH PROCUREMENT MUST BE FORMAL

97 TYPES OF FOOD SERVICE Self-Op Food Service Management Company (FSMC) Vendor School To School Agreement Participants participate in the SNP with all aspects of the administration of the food service being administered by internal staff. Example staff employed by the school district purchase the food, prepare the food and serve the food. The sponsor/sfa goes out to bid for a company to run the everyday operations of the food service preparation and service The sponsor/sfa goes out to bid for a company to prepare the food that will be served. That food is then served by staff employed by the SFA. The sponsor/sfa works out an agreement with another SFA to receive food from that SFA. An agreement is signed between both parties, laying out the details of the food provided, prices, etc.

98 SESSIONS ON PROCUREMENT General Procurement: Contract Options & Requirements Wednesday Aug 2 12:00-1:00 Room #1 Contracted Food Service Procurement: Process/Approval & Renewals Wednesday Aug 2 2:45-3:45 Room #1 Procurement: Reviews Wednesday Aug 2 4:00-5:00 Room #1 Procurement: Policies & Code of Conduct Thursday Aug 3 7:30-8:30 Room #3 Farm to School: IL Overview and Local Procurement Thursday Aug 3 2:00-3:00 Room #2

99 WINS

100 WINS SYSTEM The WINS system houses your sponsor and site applications and is also where you would go to complete your claims for reimbursement each month. WINS is accessed by logging into the IWAS system. then click on System Listing and then on WINS.

101 WINS SYSTEM The Authorized Representative is the individual legally and financially responsible for the administration of the entire school district or School Food Authority. Updating the Authorized Representative must be done through the Entity Profile System. Contact Persons WINS captures a sponsor contact, sponsor claim contact and each site can have a contact person. Updating contact persons, can be done in WINS by clicking on the paper and pen icon.

102 WINS SYSTEM On the applications you provide us with detailed information about your operations and each site. One of the most important things we gather from you is what programs each site wants to be in and what days that site operates. One of the most common questions we receive, especially around July and August is that the month of June is not showing for someone to claim meals. Most of the time that is because their application says that they operate through May 31 st, therefore, the system would not have June available for you to claim. In order to claim June meals, you would need to add those serving days to the application. Instructions for adding days can be found under the blue and yellow question mark.

103 WINS SYSTEM Closing a site or sponsor Adding a site The form for closing a site or a sponsor can be found under the blue and yellow question mark.

104 WINS SYSTEM Claims for Reimbursement A Claim for Reimbursement must be submitted through WINS. Submit one claim per site for each month of operation. To ensure prompt payment, it is recommended that claims be submitted by the 10th of the month following the month being claimed.

105 REVIEWS

106 ON-SITE REVIEWS National School Lunch Program (NSLP) regulations require each school food authority (SFA) with more than one site where reimbursable meals are served to annually conduct their own review of each site s meal count and claiming procedures. ISBE recommends even districts with one site perform an annual on-site review of meal counting and claiming procedures. This review must be completed by February 1 of each school year for each site. The individual should be familiar with program rules and should be outside the daily operations to provide an objective look at the operations. The review must be conducted by SFA personnel and may not be conducted by contracted parties who are providing the meal service. A sample copy of the On-Site Review Form is available on our website.

107 ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEWS The USDA requires ISBE to conduct administrative reviews of all SFAs participating in NSLP. Administrative reviews are comprehensive on-site evaluations conducted, at a minimum, once every three years. Critical Areas Access and reimbursement o Household Eligibility Applications o Direct Certification o Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) o Benefit issuance o Verification o Meal counting, claiming and reimbursement Nutritional quality and meal pattern o Dietary specifications and nutrient analysis o Meal components and quantities o Offer versus Serve (OVS)

108 ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEWS General program compliance o Civil rights o Food safety o Local wellness policy and school meal environment o Professional standards o Reporting and recordkeeping o SBP, SSO and SFSP outreach o SFA on-site monitoring o Smart snacks o Water Resource management o Nonprofit food service account o Paid lunch equity o Revenue from nonprogram foods o Indirect costs Other program reviews o Afterschool Snack Program o Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program o Seamless Summer Option o Special Milk Program

109 ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEWS A written report will be sent to the SFA detailing the review findings and any fiscal adjustments. The SFA must respond to the review findings with a corrective action plan that defines the processes and procedures the SFA will implement to ensure compliance with program regulations. The corrective actions must be implemented for all sites in the SFA. A follow-up review may be conducted to ensure that identified areas of concern were corrected. An Administrative Review Checklist is available to assist SFA s in preparing for an administrative review.

110 SESSION ON ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEWS Thursday August 3, :00am-11:00am Room #3

111 USDA FOODS

112 USDA FOODS The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) administers the Food Distribution Program (FDP) in Illinois. Through this program, surplus food provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is distributed to eligible recipient agencies. These donated foods help meet the nutritional needs of children in schools and summer programs. The USDA purchases and makes available to states a variety of foods. The mix of foods can change annually due to availability, cost of acquisition, and preferences of recipient agencies. The USDA has successfully expanded the variety and forms of USDA Foods available, with more than 140 products available for distribution. USDA Foods provide approximately 15-20% of the food offered in each school lunch.

113 WHAT ARE USDA FOODS? USDA Foods (formerly called commodities) are food items from the USDA that are available for schools that participate in the NSLP. An allocation amount is determined based on claims and a school can use that allocation to order USDA Foods through our online system.

114 HOW DO I RECEIVE USDA FOODS? You must be in the NSLP. You must complete the annual sponsor and site applications. Your order must be placed through the Illinois Commodity System (ICS) there is a set order time each year. ISBE has a contract with a company to deliver your USDA Foods to you. Schools receiving the food pay the costs of these services directly to the contractor.

115 WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS WITH USDA FOODS? One, two or all three of the following can be used. DoD Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Diversions to Processors USDA Foods

116 SESSION ON USDA FOODS Thursday August 3, 2017 Breakout #6: 8:45am-9:45am Room #2

117 QUESTIONS?

118 CONTACT INFORMATION Connect with Illinois State Board of Education Nutrition & Wellness Programs 800/ Don t forget to complete your evaluation for this session! Thank you

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