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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 35537 with the Long Beach Unified School District, for food preparation for the 2020 Summer Food Service Program, to increase the contract amount by $765,225, for a revised amount not to exceed $1,069,525; execute sponsor/site agreements with the City of Signal Hill and nonprofit organizations; and, execute any documents, including amendments, necessary to accept funds, implement, and administer the 2020 Summer Food Service Program, from June 15, 2020 through August 21, 2020; and
Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund Group in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department by $755,904, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Since 1980, the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PRM) has operated a Summer Food Service Program that provides free lunches to low-income children, 18 years of age and under, who, in the absence of the program, would not receive their normal school lunches during summer vacation. The 2020 Summer Food Service Program (Program) is sponsored through a grant from the California Department of Education (CDE). On May 5, 2020, the City Council authorized an agreement with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) for the Program. To meet the needs of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Program was amended and expanded. Ten additional park sites have qualified to receive funding for the Program. Lunches will now be provided at 33 sites throughout Long Beach and one site in Signal Hill (Attachment). During the 2008 Summer Food Service Program application process, the City applied for and was granted a permanent agreement to participate and receive funding from the CDE, thus eliminating the annual grant application process.
Community organizations that participate in the Program are required to secure the necessary insurance as deemed appropriate by the City’s Risk Manager, and to co...
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