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2021 Kitchen Infrastructure and Training Funds

The 2021 Kitchen Infrastructure and Training (KIT) Funding allocations provide eligible local educational agencies with additional state funds to purchase equipment and upgrades to kitchen infrastructures and offer food service staff training.

Overview

UPDATE: On June 29, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 153 Education Finance: Education omnibus budget trailer bill into law. This law extends the reporting period of the 2021 KIT Funds to no later than June 30, 2025.

On September 23, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 167 Education Finance: Education Omnibus trailer bill into law. This law appropriated $150 million from the State of California’s General Fund to the California Department of Education (CDE) to fund kitchen infrastructure upgrades and food service staff training. School kitchen upgrades are intended to increase access to, or improve the quality of, fresh and nutritious school meals. Local educational agencies (LEA) should consider using these funds when planning for the implementation of California’s Universal Meals Program. Food service staff training provided through these funds will focus on promoting nutritious foods. Funding is noncompetitive and eligible entities must register their interest via an online survey.

Funds have been allocated to LEAs, including school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, that sponsor the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) or School Breakfast Program (SBP). Funding amounts for each eligible LEA were based on data and formulas explained in AB 167 and include data from all eligible sites within an LEA’s sponsorship.

Note: The opt-in registration deadline has passed.

Eligibility

These funds are only available to LEAs defined in AB 167 as school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. Only LEAs that are a program sponsor of the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s NSLP or SBP received funding. An LEA program sponsor is one with a written agreement with the CDE, Nutrition Services Division and has a valid Child Nutrition Information and Payment System identification number on file on or before the deadline date for submission of this registration form.

Funding is noncompetitive. Program sponsors of the NSLP or the SBP must have registered their interest in receiving these funds via an online survey by the deadline.

Questions:   KITfunds@cde.ca.gov | 1-800-952-5609
Last Reviewed: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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