D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-A1001
This section establishes rules for additional funding from the Healthy Tots Fund established by the Act for meals served by child development facilities participating in the CACFP.
In order to be eligible for reimbursement from the Healthy Tots Fund, a meal (breakfast, lunch, or supper) must meet the regulatory requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) CACFP ( 7 C.F.R. § 226.20) . Each child development facility participating in the CACFP may request an additional ten cents ($0.10) for each eligible breakfast, lunch and supper served to an eligible child.
No additional funding from the Health Tots Fund is available for snacks served by a child development facility that meet the CACFP meal requirements.
Each child development facility participating in the CACFP that serves a lunch or supper which is eligible for reimbursement, may request an additional five cents ($0.05) per lunch or supper when at least one component of the meal is comprised entirely of locally grown, as defined in Section 101(3) of the Healthy Schools Act of 2010 (D.C. Official Code § 38-821.01) and unprocessed foods, as defined in Section 101(10) of the Healthy Schools Act of 2010 (D.C. Official Code § 38-821.01) .
Locally grown and unprocessed foods do not include milk.
Each child care development facility must maintain documentation of locally grown and unprocessed foods. As a means of documentation, each facility shall indicate on the daily menus for each meal type, which food item served was locally grown. In addition, each facility shall maintain receipts from farms and/or grocery stores indicating which are local food items, the date of purchase. and if available the name and address of the farm(s) and/or grocery stores. Each facility may be required to submit this documentation to OSSE each quarter, or as requested, to monitor compliance with this provision.
For those child development facilities that have maximized the number of daily meal services eligible for CACFP reimbursements allowed (two (2) meals and one (1) snack or one (1) meal and two (2) snacks), reimbursements from the Healthy Tots Fund shall be made available for each breakfast served to each enrolled and participating child, if seventy-five percent (75%) of the children enrolled and attending the child development facility are District of Columbia residents and at least fifty percent (50%) of the enrolled and attending children are eligible for subsidized child care.
The amount of the local funding for the breakfast meal, in accordance with the Act, shall be equal to the per meal free rate as established under the federal CACFP rate of reimbursement pursuant to 7 C.F.R. § 226, as amended.
The breakfast meal shall meet the CACFP meal requirements.
Child development facilities requesting reimbursement for the breakfast meal shall submit a monthly report documenting the residency and eligibility of the child receiving that meal.
Each child development facility participating in CACFP shall plan and post monthly menus for all foods served, including snacks, and shall update the menus daily to indicate the modification or substitutions to the menus to reflect food actually served. The menus shall be posted in a prominent place where parents/guardians are able to view them. In addition, all menus shall be posted on the website of the child development facility, if one exists. The facility shall maintain the menus for the current fiscal year and three years after the date of the submission of the final claim for the fiscal year to which the menu pertains.
Each child development facility seeking reimbursement pursuant to this chapter shall make meals available at no charge to any enrolled and attending infant, toddler or preschooler.
OSSE may deny monthly reimbursement requests from a child development facility that does not meet all the requirements of 7 C.F.R. Part 226 and this chapter.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 5, r. 5-A1001