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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with the Long Beach Unified School District, for food preparation for the 2021 Summer Food Service Program, in an amount not to exceed $407,000; 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 2021 Summer Food Service Program from June 21, 2021 through August 27, 2021; and
Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund Group in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department by $63,107, 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 2021 Summer Food Service Program (Program) is sponsored through a grant from the California Department of Education (CDE). While the City of Long Beach (City) offers the Program at numerous City sites, City Council approval is required to execute several agreements with other agencies to allow them to operate under the Program. These agreements include an operational agreement with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) for the preparation and delivery of the lunches, and sponsor/site agreements with participating agencies, including nonprofit agencies, for the distribution of the lunches. Lunches will be provided at 31 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 neces...
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