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Child Nutrition director says district will seek withdrawal from regional commodities co‑op to gain local control
Summary
Child Nutrition Director Debbie Kenderian told the board the department will propose a resolution to withdraw from a regional purchasing cooperative (PCO) in order to use entitlement funds locally, pursue more scratch‑cooking menus and capture savings from a distribution center arrangement.
Debbie Kenderian, director of Child Nutrition, told the board she intends to bring a resolution at the next meeting to withdraw the district from the Partners in Nutrition Cooperative (PCO) JPA so the district can exercise local control over USDA entitlement spending.
Kenderian summarized the program’s scale: roughly 160 Child Nutrition employees, approximately 1.3 million breakfasts and 1.5 million lunches served last year, and reported USDA entitlement last year of just under $600,000. She described PCO as a self‑managed joint…
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