California's Controls Over Summer Food Service Program

Require the State agency to direct identified sponsors to provide additional, enhanced SFSP training to site staff to ensure staff have sufficient knowledge of program requirements when operating sites and serving meals.

Direct the State agency to direct identified sponsors to provide specialized training that includes monitors’ duties and responsibilities—as prescribed by the FNS Sponsor Monitor’s Guide—to site monitors that visit and monitor site operations.

Direct the State agency to direct identified sponsors to conduct formal, documented site reviews more frequently than once during the sites’ operations.

Direct the State agency to monitor and assess the identified sponsors’ enhanced site training, specialized site monitor training, and increased level of site monitoring to ensure the identified sponsors’ compliance.

Direct the State agency to confirm whether the sponsors claimed any of the OIG-identified questionable, non-reimbursable meals counted by the sites. If the sponsor claimed these meals, direct the State agency to recover the $427 in questionable meal claims.