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Digital Learning February 2 2017 Karen Franklin SNS What is Severe Need Determined by congress that some schools needed additional financial help to implement and run a successful School Breakfast Program ID: 559357

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Slide1

Severe Need for 2017-18 School Year

Digital Learning

February 2, 2017

Karen Franklin, SNSSlide2

What is Severe Need?

Determined by congress that some schools needed additional financial help to implement and run a successful School Breakfast Program

Gives additional breakfast reimbursement based on demonstration of “severe need” for the SCHOOL

Child Nutrition Reauthorization of 2004 took away some of the documentation burden for schools to demonstrate “severe need” and the use of the extra reimbursement, thus allowing more schools to apply for severe need statusSlide3

What is Severe Need?

Additional reimbursement added to

free and reduced breakfast meals claimed at SCHOOLS determined to be Severe Need

SCHOOLS

(not school districts) are determined to be eligible for Severe Need breakfast reimbursement IF at least 40% of lunches served at that school were claimed at the free or reduced eligibility categorySlide4

Severe Need Reimbursement Rates 2016-17 School Year

Severe Need designation is based on lunch meals served

two years

before the claiming year

For 2017-18 Severe Need application will use data from Claims during the

2015-16 school year

For

the

2016-17

SY the extra reimbursement was

$.

33

per F/R breakfast claimed

; based on Reimbursement rates that

were published

in July for the

2016-17

SYSlide5

Severe Need Reimbursement

Based on individual school data, not district wide

data; ADE, CNU does not have school participation data

Districts MUST

apply each school year

Commissioner’s

Memo to apply for

2017-18 is

CNU-17-031Slide6

How to Submit Opt-Out Form

Decision NOT to apply for Severe Need must be signed by Superintendent or person authorized by the superintendent on the Agreement to sign Child Nutrition Documentation

DUE DATE is February 17, 2017

Submit Opt-Out or Decision not to Apply form by

either

:

Scan and email (make sure it is signed before scanning)

Email to

dianna.sheppard@Arkansas.gov

Fax to 501-324-9505

Mail to: 2020 West Third, Suite 404

Little Rock, AR 72205Slide7
Slide8

Severe Need Reimbursement

Based on instructions in the Commissioner’s Memo there must be a response from every school district

Opt-Out Form – Decision to not apply for Severe Need (signed by Superintendent or authorized person)

OR

Application to apply listing ALL schools during the 2015-16 school year

No longer a need to send both

forms.

Either

Opt-Out Decision

form or Application (not both

).Slide9

Severe Need Reimbursement

Due Date for application or Opt-Out decision form is

February 17, 2017

Remember the lunch data requested is from school year 2015-16

DOUBLE CHECK

prior to sending application:

Total lunch meals reported on application must equal

Total lunch meals claimed as reported on the district’s Year to Date Financial Statement (for school year 2015-16) Slide10

Year to Date Financial Statement

Sign into the On-line Claim Form

Reports

Fin

Oper

/Eligibility/Miscellaneous

Financial Operations & Status

YTD FinancialSlide11
Slide12

Year to Date Financial Statement

Enter

LEA number

(with ending zeros)

Effective Date Range:

07/2015 06/2016

School Term

ALL

(needs to include summer and seamless summer lunches)

Generate YTD Financial ReportSlide13
Slide14
Slide15

Total lunches claimed on YTD must equal total lunches reported on Severe Need Application Slide16
Slide17
Slide18
Slide19

Total lunches claimed on YTD must equal total lunches reported on Severe Need Application Slide20

The bottom part of the Application is ONLY completed if there are changes in the schools listed above. For example, the district had three schools in 2015-16 and have added a new school for 2017-18, this information would be in this bottom section.Slide21
Slide22

How to Submit Application Form

Application for Severe

Need must be signed by Superintendent or person authorized by the superintendent on the Agreement to sign Child Nutrition Documentation

DUE DATE is February 17, 2017

Submit

Application

form by

either

:

Scan and email (make sure it is signed before scanning)

Email to

dianna.sheppard@Arkansas.gov

Fax to 501-324-9505

Mail to: 2020 West Third, Suite 404

Little Rock, AR 72205Slide23

Child Nutrition Unit Process for Approval

of Severe Need Application

After Child Nutrition Unit (CNU) receives application the total number of lunches will be compared to YTD for 2015-16

If problems or questions the CND and/or Superintendent will be contacted by CNU

After approval the district

will receive letter from ADE CNU listing the schools that qualify for Severe Need breakfast

reimbursement for the 2017-18 school yearSlide24

Renewal Agreement 2017-18

District will mark

Schedule A

for each school to designate Severe

Need approval

on

2017-18

Renewal

Agreement

Schedule A

will have

ALL schools “unchecked” for Severe Need

, district will only check this box after receive letter of approval from CNU for the SCHOOLS approvedSlide25

Claim for Reimbursement

Severe Need Breakfast

If

all

schools in the district have been approved for Severe Need then all Free and Reduced Breakfast claims will be at the Severe Need reimbursement

r

ate

If

some

schools are approved for Severe Need and some are not, the district will claim the Severe Need schools breakfasts at the Severe Need reimbursement rate and the Non-Severe Need schools at the “regular” rate of reimbursementSlide26

Claim for Reimbursement

Severe Need Breakfast

May claim both Severe Need and non-Severe Need breakfasts on same claim form

Very important the source documents for the claim for reimbursement match the number of meals claimed by category and by SN or non SN designation