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CC - CONSENT ITEM: Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Culver City Unified School District and the Culver City Education Foundation to Apply for the Partnerships for Local Agriculture & Nutrition Transformation in Schools (PLANTS) Grant in the Amount of $500,000.
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Meeting Date: January 8, 2024
Contact Person/Dept: Wallis Nash/Public Works - Environmental Programs & Operations Division
Phone Number: (310) 253-6445
Fiscal Impact: Yes [] No [X] General Fund: Yes [] No [X]
Attachments: Yes [X] No []
Public Notification: (E-Mail) Meetings and Agendas - City Council (01/03/2024)
Department Approval: Yanni Demitri, Public Works Director/City Engineer (12/21/2023)
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council approve a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Culver City School District (CCUSD) and Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) to apply for the Partnerships for Local Agriculture & Nutrition Transformations in Schools (PLANTS) grant in the amount of $500,000.
BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
The PLANTS grant is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture Food & Nutrition Service Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative and administered by Chef Ann Foundation in Partnership with Kitchen Sync Strategies Collaborative, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, and National Farm to School Network. A total of $4.8 million will be awarded to eight projects, each award will be approximately $500,000 to $600,000. The performance period of this grant is April 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027.
This grant program has a multi-pronged focus: to build and strengthen relationships between community-based food system stakeholders, improve school food supply chain coordination, increase awareness of access to K-12 markets among small- and mid-scale and historically underserved food producers, expand scratch cooking operations in K-12 schools, and establish a sustainable approach and best practices.
The grant requires ...
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