Summer and Seamless Comparison Matrix

• Must demonstrate financial and administrative capability for program operations.

• Same requirement.

• Open to community; sites may be established at a school or non-school locations.
• Sites may be established where the area is considered needy. This area eligibility may be verified through the use the nearest school's free and reduced price meals data, census tracks, zoning commission, welfare departments, and state-recognized migrant organizations.
• Meals served free to all children attending the site.

• Same requirement; however, sites must be established within the school's boundaries.

• Children from needy areas are transported to non-needy areas. The site serves only children who are transported. Sites cannot transport and/or serve only summer school students.

• Same requirement.

• Sites may be established only at non-school locations.
• Sites may be established in needy or non-needy areas.
• Sponsor may claim all meals served if fifty percent of the enrollment is income eligible.

• Same requirement; however, the sponsor must have operated the site in the needy area during the prior year under the SFSP or provide justification to operate this type of site instead of open, more inclusive sites.

• Sites may participate in the SFSP; however, sponsors may only claim reimbursement for meals served to children who are income eligible.

• Same requirement; however, the sponsor must have operated the site in the needy area during the prior year under the SFSP or provide justification to operate this type of site instead of open, more inclusive sites.

Application and Budget Requirements

Continuation of the Application and Budget Requirements

• An annual application and budget of anticipated operational and administrative costs must be submitted for state approval.
• All receipts are kept for documentation of program expenses.
• Only program-specified expenses may be claimed.

• Eliminates the submission of the budget.
• Waiver is required per site.
• All waiver activities are performed under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) agreements.
• Continues the collection and retention of receipts, invoices, and travel logs.

• One year.

• Three years.

• Breakfast
• Lunch/Supper
• Snack (a.m. or p.m. supplement)

• Same requirement.

• Two meals.
• Any combination, except lunch and supper.
• Camps and migrant sites may have a combination of any three meals.

• Same requirement.

• SFSP operating and administrative rates apply.
• State Meal funds-none.

• NSLP/SBP free reimbursement rates apply.
• State Meal funds included.

• Pre-operational monitoring visits.
• First-week monitoring visits.
• First four weeks of operation visits, and then monitor at a "reasonable" level.

• Single review within three weeks of start of operations.

• Subject to review by state at least once every three years (or more frequently based on program size/prior problems identified by state).

• Coordinated Review Effort every five years; at least one seamless site reviewed.

• At point of service, first and two percent of seconds.

• At point of service, one meal per child per meal type.

• Required annual state training.
• School Food Authority (SFA) local training of staff.

• No state-required training at this time.
• Local training of staff by sponsor is required.

• A Site Information Sheet is required for all site additions.
• Report site closures.
• Report and obtain pre-approval for meal service time changes.
• Report and obtain pre-approval for scheduled field trips.

• A waiver is required for all site additions.
• Report site closures.
• Report meal service time changes.
• Not required to report scheduled field trips.

• Meal pattern must meet Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations 225.16 (d) standards (schools may use NSLP and/or SBP meal patterns).

• NSLP/SBP/Snack meal pattern requirements.

• Children 18 years and under in low-income areas, and for individuals 18 years and older who meet the state agency definition of having a mental or physical disability.

• Same requirement.
  

• Sponsor is required to send public media notice regarding program and eligibility.

• No public notification required by sponsor.
• Application must explain how each site, excluding closed sites, will advertise program to community.

• Meals multiplied by meal rate or actual costs, whichever is less.

• Claiming procedure used during regular school year in NSLP/SBP.

• SFSP meals served do not count toward severe needy breakfast of two-cent differential.

• Eligible free lunches served during summer months count towards severe needy breakfast and two-cent differential.
• Meal caps not required.