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Breakfast & Lunch

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:21-07:00April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

The US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, passed legislation out of their Committee to reauthorize WIC and the other Child Nutrition Programs last week. It’s called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill http://ag.senate.gov/site/legislation.html includes the reauthorization of the free and reduced lunch and breakfast programs. I was in DC a couple [...]

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Fighting Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:21-07:00March 31st, 2010|General, Prevention|

Some of the best infection control experts are laying out the plan on how to fight Healthcare-Associated Infections in the next decade. The International Conference on HAIs just wrapped up in Atlanta – it marked the first time that four leading scientific organizations committed to infection prevention are working together to further a scientific and [...]

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ADHS Budget Summary

By Will Humble|2012-10-23T08:37:28-07:00March 29th, 2010|General|

I don’t have to tell you that we’ve faced unprecedented challenges over the last couple of years. State revenues have declined for nearly 3 years now, and we’ve dramatically reduced our spending and staffing levels in an effort to bring spending in line with state revenues. Excluding the money that goes toward the matching funds [...]

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Sunset Hearing

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:22-07:00March 25th, 2010|General|

We had our agency Sunset Hearing last Wednesday in the Senate. Every 10 years our agency comes up for a redetermination to see if the mission of the department is still necessary etc. If so, then ADHS is “reauthorized”- hopefully for another 10 years. The bill (HB 2029) passed out of the House several weeks [...]

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Furlough & Pay News

By Will Humble|2010-03-24T08:43:08-07:00March 24th, 2010|General|

Performance Pay Reduction The state budget that was recently signed included an indefinite (probably permanent) suspension of performance pay (2.75%) beginning May 29. The effective date of the bill (HB2003) is June 15- so that's the day that the reduction will be actually implemented. But since this is in the middle of a pay period, we won't begin to actually [...]

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Furlough & Pay News

By Will Humble|2010-03-24T08:43:08-07:00March 24th, 2010|General|

Performance Pay Reduction The state budget that was recently signed included an indefinite (probably permanent) suspension of performance pay (2.75%) beginning May 29. The effective date of the bill (HB2003) is June 15- so that's the day that the reduction will be actually implemented. But since this is in the middle of a pay period, we won't begin to actually [...]

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Budget Signed

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:22-07:00March 19th, 2010|General|

Thursday afternoon the Governor signed the budget bills that the Legislature passed that prescribed budgets for the remaining part of FY 2010 and FY 2011. The deal is complicated and contains lots of details. Most of the provisions for our agency pertain to reductions in services that will begin next fiscal year (which starts July 1)- including orders to [...]

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SNAP Reform

By Will Humble|2010-03-12T08:26:30-07:00March 12th, 2010|General, Prevention|

I met with the staff of most of the members of Arizona’s congressional delegation Wednesday in Washington DC at an event called Hill Day sponsored by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. I used the opportunity to talk to them about nutritional policy issues like boosting the nutritional strength of the foods that are served under the free and reduced lunch [...]

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Healthier US Schools Challenge Program

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:23-07:00March 10th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The federal Healthier US Schools Challenge Program establishes rigorous standards for schools’ food quality, participation in meal programs, physical activity, and nutrition education – key components that make for healthy and active kids – and provides recognition for schools that meet these standards. In the next school year, the USDA’s goal is to double [...]

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School Nutrition Overhaul

By Will Humble|2010-03-08T08:57:52-07:00March 8th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The USDA’s Child Nutrition Act is up for re-authorization this year. The program provides food to more than 31M school children through the National School Lunch Program as well as 11M that qualify for the School Breakfast Program. Many children get ½ of their daily calories at schools- making this program a great leverage point [...]

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