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 cavanaugh, i'm the executive director of the campaign for better nutrition. i'm presenting a letter from members of the committee, about 100 members of the community signed on to it, asking you to provide leadership in improving the school nutrition programs as a critical strategy toward meeting the education goal for students an closing the achievement gap. i'm here after a day of a lot of bad news, talk about good news. we have having somewhere -- we have something very achieveable in front of us. we have short-term goals like adding supervisors that could end up saving us a lot of money. we have another piece, i don't know if it's in the report or not but we have old and failing

equipment that is very expensive to maintain. it is very possible if we were to do an analysis of this that the cost of maintaining that equipment really would cover the cost of replacing the equipment and improving the quality of the school food because i don't care when it's dated, if you overheat it or freeze it, it's not going to be good. we have some things we can do now for next school year. we need your leadership. we need your vision and goal. he has some great ideas but can only drive this cart so far. we need you to set the fwells -- goals and help us move forward. we have so much energy on the me to support you and bring in the community to support you. half the people who signed on to the letter are not involved with sfusd at all. they are ready to vote for you, pay tax there ares for you and bring in money from outside the

school district's budget to support these children. we need to take advantage of that but we need your leadership an vision in order to do that. let's tap into the money, tap into the enthusiasm around the city, around food and tap into the committee and the energy we have to go out and reach out to the community and let's to something great with school nutrition. thank you. >> good evening. my name is layna brook, i'm the parent of a 3 grarer an and incoming kindergartener. i have been involved in school nutrition issues for over a year now. i think what we heard tonight represents a tremendous opportunity to reflect upon what's working with student nutrition services right now as well as where there's room for

improvement and like colleen said, i would like to reiterate and request that the board really commit to a long-term planning and visioning process that takes our school meals program to the next level. and as a member of the food and finance advisory committee, i invite you to go through that process in partnership with us. i probably don't need to state this, but i will anyway, student nutrition programs are an i want federal part of the school day, an integral part of the educational experience that all the kids in the district have and that hungry kids cannot learn. so what ta shah reminded us, the difference between participation and consumption strikes home. we all know that many positive changes have been made with student nutrition services program over the course of the last 10 years but we still have a long road ahead of us. we want to see the consumption statistics go up and see the

food waste statistics go down. we want to be providing as healthy food a as possible to the children and see them actually be exite about eating it. so i'll leave you with that. thank you very much. >> any comments or questions? sorry that i turned it in at the wrong time. i'm a member of the food and finance committee since 2003 and i'm currently serve theags cheer of that committee. i also served as a member of the steer commeg for this assessment and reviewed drafts as well as finals and made a lot of comments. i think a lot of this information we know. some of it i would totally agree

with the fact that we need area supervisor. i know that what they go through every day over at student nutrition services, and they absolutely do. i do believe we do need a long-term plan and i know ed has been drafting that. i wanted to acknowledge the positive trajectory that the program has been on under his leadership. many of you heard these innovations that's happened and the positive trajectory but the salad bars, increasing meal applications, thanks to the district's commitment, elem nating competitive food which was a huge teal. we're looking at that evaluation. we saw positive impact on participation at middle an high schools. implementing grab and go. all of this has been done with existing resources or possibly some grant funding to really start things off. it's been continued with the same staff for the most part and the same money. so i just really want to acknowledge the innovation that has been happening and under

constrained resources and really the leadership of ed, he's been a trusted partner to me and my department and to me personally and i rally appreciate working with him, working with his staff and i look forward to working on more positive changes. i know we're already -- we've already got a few in the works, we've secured resources for, that we're starting to plan for and we look forward to coming back and telling you about the pstive changes. thank you all, i know you've been supporting this for a long time. i believe this program is essential and also we have to look at the data in terms of what are the costs of doing business here and other places and we have to frame the issue correctly because i haven't seen an analysis that showed me it's really able to break 9/11 a place like san francisco. i look forward to seing if somebody can do it but i haven't seen it yet. i do preesh all of you, i appreciate, you know, paul and the food bank for stepping in to fund the study. enge it's putting together some

information that we haven't all seen complired -- compiled in one place. we may want to look over the data and discuss it and see if it's accurate and what we really think but i do think it's a positive step. i think the community is ready to forth support more innovation. thank you all. >> commissioners? >> i want to thank you for the report. it's given us some important pieces of information. i think mrs. jones from public health is right, a lot of this information we kind of knew already but it's helpful to have it collected in one place. it was what you said about the impact of the two area supervisors since you hired them. i would like to see us look at how could we expand those

numbers because from the analysis that i read it does seem like you can increase participation and you can increase reimbursement and increase revenues for the program by staffing it more appropriately. it seems clear that it's not staffed appropriately. i know that it's, if it comes down to teachers versus area supervisors, we're all going to pick the classroom first. but i also think we don't want to sort of have a penny wise and pound foolish approach to this. i would like to see how can we expand that supervision because there could be a net positive effect to that. i also, i'm really interested in some of the recommendations that could be implemented now and i did read the f.n.s. response to the study. so i know that there's some -- something that they say are not

-- will not have any net costs that s.n.f. says, take into account the staff time and some of these things but one of the things i think we should really look at is the recommendation to put recess before lunch. i have always thought, for my own, at my own child's elementary school, i thought that was a great idea and that it would realy, it apparently has all sorts of other benefits, kids come into the classroom after lunch calmer, ready to learn, they eat more, which would be, you know, some of us whose kids want to play all the time and not eat. and so i'm wondering, if we could put that on a future curriculum committee agenda, sort of how would we get there? i know that there are some challenges around scheduling at elementary schools around that so what would be the tradeoff of doing that? i think that is something that -- a step that the board could take toward implementing these

recommendations that hopefully would not be too costly. i also wanted to commend you, mr. wilkins, because i -- she may be one of the few in the district but my daughter absolutely loves the middle school lunch and would eat it every day if i allowed her to. she particularly loves the new -- the chinese food serving containers, she thinks those are really cool. so you know, kudos to you and ms. reichert. and then i wanted to draw people's attention to a lunch time forum next month that spur is doing. oakland is referenced in the report as having made some innovations, having done some things that are a little bit ahead of us in certain ways. their nutrition director and one of their community partners are going tb to be at spur on june 12 talking about what they have done, that might be a good way for board members or community

members who are interested in this to start talking about this. the vision for the future. so you know, i would like to see us move forward in some way to sort of -- and i don't know whether it's a master plan for student knew trig, i don't know if it's tissue i don't know what shape that takes. i know that everyone is in survival mode at this point. it's not a demand that i would want to put, i know you're just trying to get your -- get through the day and make sure that kids are getting served so i don't know how we do it but i do think there -- we need to sort of articulate, here's where we want to be. here's the steps we need to take to get there. it may take us a long time. we may have to find additional funding but i think it's a worthwhile exercise to kind of articulate here's where we want to go. so, with that, i will yield the floor. >> commissioner mendoza.

commissioner mendoza: thank you. i'm so grateful we have all of you here, it makes for a great conversation, one that's been happening in lots of different places. it's -- we had talked with commissioner -- >> they talked -- had talked with us about two years ago and followed along the lines of what would it look like if we begun to cook again. so i'm thrilled to hear this coming from another source in support of that endeavor. and not that we could jump to it immediately but what would it look like? how would we go about it? and what makes it seem very tangible and very -- a very real possibility as i look and i also want to acknowledge ms. wamac's contribution to this endeavor, thank you very much, it's been a long time, i know you have been working on all the different money