C.R.S.
Section 22-100-102
Local school food purchasing program
- creation
- report
- rules
(1)
There is created in the department the local school food purchasing program to reimburse participating providers for the purchase of Colorado grown, raised, or processed products.(2)
Intentionally left blank —Ed.(a)
A school district, charter school, board of cooperative services that operates a public school, or residential child care center may apply to the department on a form developed by the department to participate in the school food purchasing program to receive reimbursement for the purchase of Colorado grown, raised, or processed products pursuant to this section.(B)
Repealed.(II)
The department shall give preference to applicants that:(A)
Demonstrate a commitment to local purchasing or food and agricultural education;(B)
Have a kitchen with the ability to store, prepare, and serve local food products;(C)
Have greater than twenty-five percent of their students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch pursuant to the provisions of the federal “Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act”, 42 U.S.C. sec. 1751 et seq.;(D)
Served fewer than one million two hundred fifty thousand school lunches in the previous year’s count; and(E)
Satisfy any other eligibility requirements established by the department.(III)
To the extent possible, in selecting participating providers, the department shall ensure diversity in geographic location and district pupil count.(c)
On or before August 1 of the year following the participating provider’s application, the participating provider shall track and report to the department on a form developed by the department for the school year in which it applied, and for the prior year, the total amount of Colorado grown, raised, or processed products it purchased for student meals, the total amount of value-added processed products it purchased for school meals, and the total number of lunches that it provided to students.(II)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3)(a)(I) of this section, the maximum amount of reimbursements that may be awarded in any year is five hundred thousand dollars.(5)
Intentionally left blank —Ed.(a)
The state board of education is authorized to adopt rules to implement the school food purchasing program.(b)
The department is authorized to monitor the school food purchasing program to ensure program integrity.(6)
If in any fiscal year the department does not expend or encumber the full amount of the appropriation for the school food purchasing program, up to five percent of the appropriation is available to the department in the next fiscal year to pay for the evaluation required by section 22-100-104 (1)(e).
Source:
Section 22-100-102 — Local school food purchasing program - creation - report - rules, https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-22.pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).
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