OAR 581-017-0723: Competitive Oregon Farm-to-School Grant for Reimbursement of Oregon Foods: Funding

(1) The Oregon Department of Education will award competitive Oregon Farm-to-School grant for reimbursement of Oregon foods for each biennium. If funding is available, additional competitive grants will be awarded in subsequent biennia. (2) An eligible entity which receives a competitive Oregon Farm-to-School grant for reimbursement of Oregon foods: (a) May reserve up to twenty-five percent of the total amount awarded for all reasonable costs incurred: (A) Growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, sourcing, or transporting food produced or processed in the State of Oregon, including but not limited to purchasing supplies, infrastructure, labor costs, and mileage; and (B) Developing or sustaining successful efforts to purchase or promote foods produced or processed in the State of Oregon. (b) May not use more than ten percent of their total award for any direct administrative costs, including administrative labor and supplies. (3) The purchase of certain foods produced or processed in the State of Oregon may not be supplanted with grant funds. The Oregon Department of Education shall develop and publish a list of those foods. Recipients of a competitive Oregon Farm-to-School grant for reimbursement of Oregon foods may not use their grants to supplant purchases of foods produced or processed in the State of Oregon that are included on the current list of ineligible foods published by the department. (4) Recipients of a competitive Oregon Farm-to-School Program procurement grant must deposit the grant funds they receive in an account that is separate from their nonprofit food service account, or assign those funds a separate account or index number. (5) The Oregon Department of Education may reallocate competitive Oregon Farm-to-School grant for reimbursement of Oregon foods funds to other eligible entities if grant funds either remain after awards are made or become unobligated, or if a grant recipient is not making adequate progress towards spending all of its grant award during the biennium in which the award was made. (6) Grant funds awarded for use in one biennium may not be carried over to the following biennium, and will revert to the Oregon Department of Education at the end of the biennium, unless otherwise determined by the department.