Decision Making Tools
Decision Making Tools
| Indicators | | Nutrition
Service is an enterprise fund. This means we are a self-funded program
and do not take taxpayer dollars from the general fund. We do pay
back funds to the district in the form of indirect expenses. We receive
our funding in the following ways: Cash received from
the sale of breakfast and lunch meals in the elementary and secondary
schools, and through a la carte sales as well. Non- cash in the form of entitlement funds based on 17.4 cents per meal served to procure commodity processed foods. Flow throughfunding, which is the USDA dollars paid through the state for each paid, reduced and free meal served. State matching funds of 4 cents per meal served. Rebates from the manufacturer. |
| Process used to determine nutrition standards | | The
USDA sets nutrition standards and we use a computer program called
Nutri-Kids to assure these guidelines are met. These standards are: 30%
of calories from fat; 10% from saturated fat; 1200 mg of sodium, and
fiber is 4.5 grams. We are also accountable for various vitamins and
minerals. These are per day averaged over a 5-day period. Your
students’ well-balanced meal cost at the elementary level is $1.75 and
the secondary cost is $2. These prices include an 8 oz milk in
elementary and a 10 oz milk in secondary. |
| Staffing formula | The average daily participation in 60 sites is twenty thousand meals. Staffing
for Nutrition Services is based on meals per labor hour. Elementary
sites have a staff of 2 until they reach the 300 meals per day
threshold and then a 3rd person is hired. Middle schools have a staff
of 5 and high schools have a staff of 7. We have a total of 200
employees and a sub pool of about 25 employees. |
|
 |
