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AMENDMENT #17
<br />Exhibit A, Statements of Work Page 40 of 42 Contract Number CLH18249-17
<br />Revised as of September 15, 2020
<br /> Program activities do not supplant existing nutrition education and obesity prevention programs, and where operating in conjunction with existing programs , enhance as well
<br />as supplement them. This applies to all activities and costs under the Federal budget.
<br /> Program activities are reasonable and necessary to accomplish SNAP-Ed objectives and goals.
<br /> All materials developed with SNAP- Ed funds include the appropriate USDA non-discrimination statement and credit SNAP as a funding source in standard font that is easily
<br />readable.
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<br />SNAP-Ed Statewide Initiatives
<br />Subrecipients are expected to communicate with, respond to, and comply with requests, guidance, requirements, and/or on -site visits from all contracted SNAP-Ed statewide
<br />initiative entities.
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<br />Any SNAP-Ed curriculum modifications should be developed and executed based on the most current Guidance for Curriculum Modification, found under “Guidance and
<br />Process” on WA SNAP-Ed Providers website. Subrecipients must consult DOH SNAP-Ed as directed.
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<br />After notification to the DOH SNAP-Ed implementing agency, the Subrecipient may adjust or deny requests, requirements, and/or site visits from any contracted SN AP-Ed
<br />statewide initiative entities if said request, requirement, and/or site visit is deemed unreasonable, burdensome, unnecessarily costly, or inequitable after appropriate considerati on
<br />and deliberation between the Subrecipient, DOH SNAP -Ed, and the contracted SNAP-Ed statewide initiative entity/entities; and, when necessary, DSHS. After appropriate
<br />consideration and deliberation, the resulting decision about whether or not the Subrecipient must comply or can adjust or den y a specific will be provided in writing to the
<br />Subrecipient from DOH SNAP-Ed and/or DSHS.
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<br />Health and Safety
<br />Subrecipients are not required to work under conditions that could endanger their health, safety, or well -being. Additionally, Subrecipients should ensure they are not putting any
<br />SNAP-Ed audience or community members in situations that could endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Participation in SNAP-Ed by the SNAP-Ed audience is voluntary.
<br />If an activity is deemed unsafe, Subrecipients must adapt activities as needed to allowable and safe alternatives. For a give n situation, all Subrecipients and SNAP-Ed activities
<br />should follow current health and safety laws, regulation and guidance from the designated authorities in the applicable city/town, county, state, and/or the related federal authority,
<br />e.g. CDC, USDA. If Subrecipient is unable to adapt activities as needed to safe, allowable alternatives within their allocation, funding for the current fiscal year may change after
<br />sufficient and acceptable technical assistance between Subrecipient and DOH SNAP -Ed and after prior written notification to the Subrecipient. Any change in annual funding due
<br />to inability to adapt project activities as needed to safe, allowable alternatives will not be a permanent change in annual f unding, unless accompanied by actions outlined under the
<br />‘Contract Noncompliance and Corrective Action’ section.
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<br />Audits
<br />The Subrecipient must make State financial and program audits or reviews conducted by other entities available to the DOH, DS HS, USDA, or its designee.
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<br />Indirect Rate/Allocation Plan
<br />All indirect rate/allocation plans must be submitted and preapproved by the DOH grants office and the DOH SNAP -Ed program. The Subrecipient is responsible for ensuring that
<br />indirect costs included in the Subrecipient’s SNAP -Ed plan and budget are supported by an indirect rate and/or cost allocation plan approved by the appropriate agency. The
<br />Subrecipient cannot bill indirect costs that are determined to be unacceptable and will be disallowed.
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<br />Annual Civil Rights Training Requirement (see USDA Instruction Number 113-1 Chapter XI) http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/113-1.pdf “Training is required so
<br />that people involved in all levels of administration of programs that receive Federal financial assistance understand civil rights related laws, regulations, procedures, and directives.
<br />Local agencies are responsible for training their sub recipients, including ‘frontline staff.’ ‘Frontline staff’ who interac t with program applicants or participants, and those persons
<br />who supervise ‘frontline staff’ must be provided civil rights training an annual basis.”
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<br />Records Maintenance - Record Retention and Management - State Agency and All Subrecipients 7CFR 272.2
<br />DOH SNAP-Ed regulations require that all records related to the SNAP-Ed program be retained for six (6) years from fiscal closure. This requirement applies to fiscal
<br />documentation and procurement records, contract related documents and emails, progress reports, monitoring reports, and SNAP -Ed client information (pre/post surveys,
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