WVUSD: 2014-2015 Year-End Results
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have been monitored with funding sources including Bond Measures S & Y, state
matching funds, developer fees, and land sale proceeds.
Though the changes have been challenging in the National School Lunch and Breakfast
Program, we continue to serve the students within the WVUSD with the highest quality
and healthy foods. For the current school year, we have served 978,695 lunch meals and
continue to increase participation. We contribute the success of the program to the
Nutrition Services staff that values the impact they have on the students’ educational day.
We strive to offer a variety of healthy and appealing choices to the students and focus on
food trends such as wraps, hummus trays, yogurt parfaits, and fresh sandwiches and
salads, to mention a few.
The USDA has developed Professional Standards for school nutrition personnel. USDA
developed these standards to help build skills, to stay current with complex school
nutrition programs, to enhance the image of school nutrition employees, and food
handling training. These standards focus on the Food Service Worker I to the Director
level. Continuing Education Units must be earned on a yearly basis; anywhere from 4 – 8
hours depending on your title and number of hours you work in a day. This will give the
department an opportunity to train personnel in all areas of eligibility, food safety,
identification of reimbursable meals, and nutrition.
In an effort for constant process improvement, the district recently upgraded the existing
financial and reporting operating system from an outmoded and unsupported DOS based
system to a web based system which integrates component units such as inventory,
purchasing, budget, and reporting into one platform. At regular intervals, Escape
Technology releases updated Escape Online 5 software. The 2015 schedule for Escape
Online 5 releases are March, June and October. Fiscal Services and Purchasing has
provided the initial trainings to support this upgrade. Within the last year, a total of eight
training sessions were offered to all users. Fiscal Services and Purchasing will continue
to provide Escape training along with utilizing the established Help Desk. The following
tools are available via Escape activities: How-To, Tutorials, Webinars, and Online
Resources. The need for mandatory training for all staff is being reviewed. In addition,
streamlining the approval process is also under review. With the Escape System,
Purchasing has supported the district by processing 3,646 purchase orders and 1,565
warehouse orders for the 2014-2015 school year.
We recognize that funding is essential to any district effort. Consequently, the Business
and Educational Services divisions have worked collaboratively to budget expenditures
identified by the combined efforts of LCAP committees to serve various student
populations and the needs at individual schools to improve student achievement. All
schools learned how to do more with less dollars in economically hard times and have
become more efficient, stretching every new dollar to provide services for all students.
One-time Common Core implementation funding was used to provide technology devices,
teacher planning, and professional development.
We also jointly reviewed historical enrollment trends, Interdistrict Transfers, current
enrollment, and special programs and needs. With the expectation that District of Choice
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