California's Controls Over Summer Food Service Program

Direct the State agency to develop and implement procedures to document the State agency’s assessment of SFSP sponsors’ applications and the basis for the State agency’s conclusions/approvals.

Direct the State agency to ensure the State agency staff are sufficiently trained on the new application procedures (in Recommendations 1 through 6).

Direct the State agency to implement procedures that ensure sites do not serve the same children in the same area.

Direct the State agency to carefully evaluate the eligibility of the two sponsors that lacked adequate financial management capabilities (Sponsors B and E) if they choose to return to the program, and document the basis of its determinations to ensure the weaknesses identified by OIG have been corrected.

Direct the State agency to calculate and recover any unallowable reimbursements paid to Sponsors B and C resulting from their site misclassifications.