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Agency seeks authority to use contracts as well as grants for farm-to-school work
Summary
Agency staff told the committee that adding statutory flexibility to permit contracts would let the Agency of Agriculture secure specific services, ensure deliverables and provide consistent statewide technical assistance alongside competitive grants.
Gina Clifero, farm-to-institution program manager at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, told the committee the agency seeks statutory flexibility to execute contracts as well as grants for farm-to-school and farm-to-institution work.
Clifero said grants and contracts are different legal tools: grants are open-ended awards that support general objectives, while contracts are appropriate when the state is asking a provider to perform a specific service. "If the state is asking an organization to provide a service to us, the best practice would be for that to be a contract rather than a grant," she said. The proposed…
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