VI. Appendices Appendix A: Pre-Survey Email to State Agencies
Subject Line: Your Support Needed: School Food Procurement Needs Assessment
OMB Control Number 0584-0611 Expiration Date 11/30/2025
Dear State Agency Representative, As part of a cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Urban School Food Alliance and the Government Performance Lab (GPL) at the Harvard Kennedy School are conducting a survey of school business officials and those directly responsible for school food purchasing at the district level in all U.S. states and territories to better understand challenges they face related to school food procurement. This survey has been reviewed by USFA’s State Agency Cooperative Agreement Subcommittee and the School Food Authorities Cooperative Agreement Subcommittee and approved by USDA. The results of this survey will help improve procurement practices nationwide and guide the creation of future tools, training, and rule changes. We would deeply appreciate your support in spreading the word and encouraging your school districts to participate. Here is our ask: • Share the survey link with school nutrition directors, authorized representatives, and others who hold re- sponsibility for food purchasing at the district level in your state/territory. • The Government Performance Lab (GPL) will share sample language for you to share the survey directly OR • The Government Performance Lab can send the survey communications directly to your list of contacts on your behalf • The Government Performance Lab can also assist with promoting the survey by joining state school nu- trition director calls, sharing a marketing kit, or engaging in other relevant virtual events If you can commit to sharing this survey, or enlisting the support of the GPL, when it goes live, please let us know by responding to this email by January 24 . With your support, we can bring in new voices and build stronger solutions.
If you have any questions, please contact Pamela Portocarrero . Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you. Dr. Katie Wilson and Pamela Portocarrero
This information is being collected to assist the Food and Nutrition Service in guiding future rulemaking for regulations impacting school food procurement (the process by which school districts purchase food, equipment, supplies, and services all related to Child Nutrition Programs). This is a voluntary collection and FNS will use the information to understand current school food procurement challenges and needs of school nutrition directors and school business officials. The collection does not request personally identifiable information. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The valid OMB control number for this information collection is 0584-0611. The time to read and respond to this communication is 1 minute. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Office of Policy Support, 1320 Braddock Place, 5th Floor, Alexandria, VA 22314. ATTN: PRA (0584-0611).
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