meeting. >> superintendent garcia just said yes. thank you, deputy superintendent. i want to introduce the next topic. but i would like nancy to take a charge of us. >> we are going to switch gears a little bit. they are going to provide little bit of additional information on what is going on for student nutrition right now, so if you

will give us a minute to get readjusted, and we will get going. i will leave it to her to introduce this party. >> good evening. i work for the san francisco food bank. good as you may know, it was detailed, and we are grateful for the recommendation earlier. we do done mostly by providing income to the tune of 225,000 people every year in our counties. and we also take the opportunities to improve them so they are making a difference in a systemic way, and in san

francisco it is an opportunity for us to increase the number of low-income kids eating every single day by increasing the number of children who are eating meals in our schools every single day. it is probably the second biggest opportunity we have to make sure those kids are getting nutrition every single day. that was the impetus for getting involved in the school district , and we started collaborate in with the school district and the department of public health to talk about what we could do to make the next step for the work have already been done, and we wanted to identify opportunities to meet two goals, to feed more caves better food. i would like to thank the district for being a fantastic

collaborator on this project as well as the department of public health, who are believed is represented tonight. we look forward to continuing to work with the district, and we have a lot of opportunities to make improvements going forward, and i would like to introduce the lead consultant of the firm we hired. and the food they thought the best role would be to help by providing resources, to do an assessment with key operations for the program. good >> good evening. it is my pleasure to represent a

results of the diagnostics study. they were charged with a program. good at the time they have already made notable improvements. they have integrated a great point of sale system, and the district was already beginning to tackle the application problem. give one question was how do we served more kids better food as well as what next year ago >> we do not have a copy of your presentation, right? we can get you one. >> to complete our assessment, we surveyed five groups of stakeholders and have more than 3200 respondents. we completed an invent a visit -- advance visit.

we watched kids eat. we ate the food ourselves. we completed more than 75 interviews and nine focus groups that included stakeholders in the district year ago -- in the district. we compared it to peers and best practices. we made substantial changes based on feedback we received. our final report is a lengthy. good i am going to give you the review, highlighting our key findings. one of the first areas we look at was breakfast and lunch meals. we have been trying to find a way to get people more food to

eat. we would expect participation rates around 61%. students have relatively few alternatives for healthy meals. that is not what we found. goothis slide shows the comparin of which figures in dolla blue. it does not hit the 61% mark anywhere. good we come close. the actual consumption of meals by students is likely lower. there is a difference between official participation and actual consumption. this is one of the share tables.

good consumption was 12 points lower than reported participation. items were generally consumed and appreciated by students. other data indicated as much as 53% of elementary school students throw away have for more than half of the meal they take. since it is not nutrition unless kids eat it, this is troubling. it means thousands of students are not eating what could be an important source of daily nutrition. the next thing we look that is financials. the question is how to fix it. one of the lessons we have learned is successful district operate with two key understandings. they adopt assess practice. but is always a direction they are headed. they understand school food is a

game of henie's -- pennies. how many does that extra tomato add to the reameal. how many can we save? that is the question many districts have. right now they are spending a lot of money and not getting much for it. we are either redo we are neither spending money to get something kids love or spending rock-bottom prices. we have heard many people suggest labor cost is too high to allow us to provide anything. it is hard to look up this chart and see whether anything is wrong. should did most of the money go toward food? we actually have equal weight on food and service.

what about the high cost of living? there are three questions. it is not perfectly in accord, but it is much closer. this operation of financial break-even, not the 60% loss of 2011, and we found we have an expectations dampener -- gap. cafeteria employees are not expected to provide high- performance. the internal standards for the time and we were here was 20. goothis is not to say this is te best we can do. we talked to many who used to do more. we have not been asking them to do as much.

good cafeteria employees are largely unsupervised. good this is the structure, one director, one assistant director, the school reporting directly. but before you start adding child and developers of other sites. goowe observed numerous inconsistencies and questionable practices in the cafeterias we visited. student nutrition best practices indicated the need of 7. this is similar to what the district already have secured both the district did hire two supervisors. it is a good step but not enough. there is lack of management. if you take away one thing from

this presentation, the single most important thing you can do to improve the program tomorrow is to hire more area supervisors immediately. you cannot afford not herto. we were asked to look got all possibilities. this was not the feasibility study characterized by some. we looked at the opportunity eyes of all -- as a whole, so we considered all options. and we heard a lot about the need for a central kitchen, and we gave it strong consideration. it is our opinion that creating a central kitchen is not the only or best option. pursuing a central kitchen will not complete the meals.

and we saw several plausible options that could be brought on line quicker with less cost. this is where we are today. prepackaged meals are often hard for fourth graders to identify. these are not stock photos. we took these ourselves in district we have consulted organdies show that it is possible to offer food even kids will want to eat. we made a number of recommendations. we found there are opportunities to make improvements and a few that now require investment. gooother recommendations are for tightening recommendations, and we identified seven and we strongly urge you to implement

quickly. #1 is area supervisors. i will not deliver the others. they are listed in our review you're good -- in our review. then we discussed what direction the district should go. one of the most important things for the long haul. if these are undertaken together the district could go a long way to implementing success. increased participation, improved quality, and financial stability. we think this should include an earnest discussion about a central kitchen. they are already several years down the line in replacing their new kitchens with the new

facility. this would be a new partnership with the partner who it has proved they can run a successful kitchen. this would likely attract resources. we recommend the district focus on schools and the superintendent zone. this is designed to show improved attendance. we know this is the most important meal of the day, so we need to increase participation. we recommend a second choice in elementary and lunch. the psychology behind choice is clear. choice increases participation and consumption. we recommend the district manager for success by hiring area supervisors. it depends on daily attention to details in the cafeteria and close monitoring.

it would make all the difference in the world. i would be happy to answer any questions. good we have an update, so n do that or talk about questions in the end, whichever you prefer your good >> why don't we get an update? is this going to be lengthy? >> it is going to be about 45 minutes. is that ok? [laughter] it will be quick. gi am going to turn it over to the director of nutrition to give an update, and you have a

copy right in front of you. by this is not the republican response to the democratic point of view. we want to give you a quick taste of things we are currently doing, and we would be more than happy to answer any questions you may have. we are going to give you an update on progress, changing context, does the glance -- just a glance and then goals for 2013. we have seen a decrease in participation for breakfast and lunch. i will talk about how we are encouraging breakfast and move

on to lunch. we were awarded grants. the first were four high schools. the second were four middle schools the reagan we had -- the second were for middle schools. beginning in january we start enrolling of the breakfast at comprehensive high schools. we have increased participation by 35% in those high schools where the operation is in place. we have additional stations we plan to roll out in 2013 for all of our middle schools. just a brief overview, we plan to pilot and increase the

assembly on site in middle and high schools. goowe look at more food now assembly, and with that finding we can determine a way to make it feasible to roll out across. we are looking at not just the main menu item and budgetary and options, but this is some fear we are recognizing -- something we are recognizing as a recommendation. we are in the process of looking at our contracts, and they develop a larger meal service contract. and we also take a look at the

current price and compare it. we are going to maintain the current neil prize while others are raising their price. gooa federal mandate is thus itt be subsidized, so we are already ahead of that triggered we already recognized and we need staff training. one thing i think has really provided dramatic change is cash collections. goofor star would have to say we accomplish -- further would have to say we accomplished 92%,

getting papers returned from their families, our school work hard at achieving that goal to oregon we increased certification of students, and we did launch our on-line service, which was utilized to some degree, but we are going to focus out as we head into the school year. an option allows parents to put money into students accounts that began last year. 320 -- 38.2% of those meals were funded with meal plus. that is an increase of 15%.

we are going to focus on promoting the online neil barraso superior -- online neil process -- meal process. it will reduce the impact on students nutrition. it is very user-friendly for parents who have access. we will have a variety of other options if they do not have access, but it is produces -- but in reduces the validation point, and i see it as a real move forward for the paper and process that is required. one of the things i am most

proud of, we were under a coordinated review effort. the comment on the slide is from the lead reviewer from the department of education, but we have this review first time around, and i knew that was the case over the last 25 fears triggered the california department of education said it was the first time ever, and i am extraordinarily proud of staff. -- that. we added two at the beginning of the school year. they hit the ground running because we were facing the road you are just spoke of, but what they have not assisted us in is

achieving much greater oversight, more on-site presence of supervision. you are going to see what we have made some major progress in our overall performance this school year, and that oversight contributed greatly in that effort, and that will continue. it has allowed us to greater follow-up employee discipline and training. we are going to continue our efforts among communication and building partnerships 0 your we are currently working on engaging more youth, developing

more community engaged in, and we are working on updating our wellness policy based on requirements. i am sure most of you are aware of the flu drug legislation, -- aware of the new legislation, and we have put together our newsletter. good is currently on our web site, and i give special thanks to my assistant director who is sitting in audience behind me and my great partner, ms. paula jones. the next few slides i am not going to bore you wastith.

a review of federal requirements, so we will rapidly take you through eighth it. i will halt on the water in the cafeteria slide. this is important to say. thank you for reminding curiosa 36 for reminding me. ynick has taken the lead and should be commended for his work. we have identified some and we currently meet, and there are some we will have to add to the program, and my favorite slide, it will probably make most people ill, but it is what is.

we have looked geithneat this ct year and the past two, and what we have looked at thiis revenue levels and general funds. if you look at this school year and last school year, the contribution appears to be the same. we forecasted revenue based on increases as well us what the federal government is going to provide, and but of the same time we are going to experience increase food costs, so the

basic forecast remains the same. we do have strategic vision for our program. we have to improve our food standards, quality, and participation. we are going to continue to include partnerships. did we do have a pilot model we are going to be focusing on to do much of what was presented to night. goowe are going to be looking at what we can do in elementary schools to increase our growth as participation -- breakfast participation. give we will look up what will work best and what will be most effective, and we will continue

long-term planning. gooit is my pleasure to thank superintended garcia for his support. he has been with the department every single step of the way. goo>> thank you. are you here? >> hello, and thank you for this opportunity to speak. i am a nurse at a high school level, and i have been serving on the food advisory committee, and i have the opportunity to be with students every day, and i

see the benefit of nutrition. we know if students are offered appealing food, they will eat it you're good i urge you to do -- they will eat it. i urge you to have multiple strategies to improve school meals. it can enhance the student's ability to focus and their ability to become good students. good thank you for your time >> i'm colleen caug