Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Potential applicants will be notified by
the department that in order to be considered for state emergency food
financial assistance, an application must be submitted to the
department.
(2) An applicant must
make formal application using forms issued and procedures established by the
department. Such application shall be for the period indicated on the contract
face sheet. Failure of an applicant to make application in a timely manner, as
specified by the department, may result in denial of the funding
request.
(3) Department funds may
not supplant other existing funding sources.
(4) The department shall notify successful
applicants and shall provide to each of them a contract for signature. This
contract must be signed by an official with authority to bind the applicant and
must be returned to the department prior to the award of any funds under this
program.
(5) Applicants that
receive food bank or food distribution funds are subject to the following
fiscal requirements:
(a) The total funds from
the department received by a nontribal lead agency contractor or a food
distribution subcontractor must be equally matched by funds from other sources
during the fiscal year. No more than fifty percent of that match may be
documented in-kind contributions. Nontribal participating food banks receiving
funds from the department have two options for matching funds: They may equally
match the EFAP funds, with no more than fifty percent being documented in-kind
contributions; if they do not have at least one-half of their minimum match as
cash, they may match their department funds by at least two hundred percent in
in-kind contributions from other sources.
(b) Administrative costs for food bank and
food distributor subcontractors under this program are limited to ten percent
of their total contract award. Administrative costs for a lead agency
contractor who also provides direct emergency food assistance services as a
participating food bank and/or services as a food distributor are limited to
ten percent of the contractor's allocation for providing direct services, ten
percent of the contractor's allocation for providing food distributor services,
and ten percent of the total contract award as food bank lead agency; total
administrative costs, however, may not exceed fifteen percent of the total
contract award. Administrative costs for agencies who are lead agency
contractors only are limited to ten percent of their total contract
award.
(6) Tribal
applicants are subject to the following fiscal requirements:
(a) Tribal contractors and subcontractors
must match thirty-five percent of the funds received by the department for the
emergency food assistance program. No more than fifty percent of that match may
be documented in-kind contributions.
(b) Of a contract award allocated to the
tribal food voucher program, tribal contractors may not spend more than ten
percent on administrative costs, and five percent on operational expenses. The
balance of funds is to be used for food vouchers issued to clients. Of funds
allocated to the food bank program, tribal contractors are subject to the same
spending requirements as nontribal food bank contractors under subsection
(5)(b) of this section.
Statutory Authority: 2010 c 68 and
chapter
34.05 RCW. 10-20-061,
§ 16-740-060, filed 9/27/10, effective
10/28/10.