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Healthy meals on menu for 14 elementary sites in pilot program


by Jane Black


With one-third of the nation’s children overweight or obese, improving the quality of school meals has become a fashionable cause. Michelle Obama has made it a pillar of her national “Let’s Move” campaign. In May, the D.C. Council passed the Healthy Schools Act, which mandates strict nutrition standards for school meals and provides schools with an extra 15 cents per meal to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables and local ingredients. On Monday, D.C. Public Schools took its own step in im- proving school food when it an- nounced the new vendors it has selected to provide more health-


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ful meals for two pilot programs scheduled to begin this fall at 14 D.C. elementary schools. Revolu- tion Foods, a California-based company that serves 25 D.C. schools from a kitchen in Glen Burnie, will provide prepackaged meals at seven schools that are undergoing renovations and have no student lunchroom. DC Central Kitchen will provide made-from-scratch meals such as vegetable stir fries and home- made quiches at seven schools in Northeast Washington. The pilot programs require both vendors to meet the strict nutrition standards for foods in schools recommended by the In- stitute of Medicine — the gold standard for healthful school lunches. In addition, it requires that each meal contain fruit, veg- etables and hormone-free milk; 75 percent of the edible products must be 75 percent or more whole-grain; and grass-fed, local, antibiotic-free meats must be served whenever possible. The


Enforcement questions surround fence dispute


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and his supporters saying that Gray should have known that permits were required. Attorney General Peter Nickles said Mon- day that “the fact that there ha- ven’t been other fines is an in- dication of how egregious it was and how slow they were to file — not that there was politics in- volved.” “The people that did the work and imposed the fine are inde- pendent bureaucrats. I didn’t tell them to impose fines. The mayor didn’t tell them to impose fines,” added Nickles, who has said that he monitored the process to en- sure that the chairman’s case was handled like any other. The fence caught the attention


of city regulators in December af- ter reports in the Washington Times questioned Gray’s rela- tionship with a real estate devel- oper whose company he hired to perform separate improvement projects at his home in Southeast Washington. Gray has said he was unaware that his contractor had not filed


the necessary paperwork for the fence. Once he was contacted by city regulators, Gray said he moved quickly to comply. The back-and-forth between his law- yers and city agency officials, however, continued for months, with Gray’s lawyers saying that the checklist for completion kept changing and the city sending letters three times in one month warning that the agency was pre- pared to impose fines if an appli- cation was not completed. Tony Bullock, a communica- tions director for former mayor Anthony A. Williams (D), said Gray has paid a heavy price for what appears to be a contractor’s misstep.


“I sincerely doubt that Fenty and his team are trying to make an issue of this,” said Bullock, who is not affiliated with either campaign. “But I think that more than likely, agency folks are ner- vous about being accused of whitewashing a violation, so they are going overboard in terms of enforcement when common sense and discretion would be more appropriate.”


portable-meal proposal also calls for biodegradable packaging. “The pilots are designed to cre-


ate a more competitive environ- ment for school food and to help us to assess what works best in terms of food quality and differ- ent methods of cooking,” said Jeff Mills, director of food service for D.C. schools. “We will then take the best practices of all our programs and apply them the following year.” The school system is under in- tense pressure to reform its food service. D.C. has the ninth-high- est rate of childhood obesity in the country, according to a June report by the Trust for America’s Health. And like many urban school districts, it has come un- der fire for serving a steady diet of ultra-processed and sugary foods. An expose on a local blog, The Slow Cook, revealed that Chartwells, the current school food service provider, advertised a “fresh-cooked” meal program but served processed scrambled


eggs with 13 ingredients includ- ing soybean oil, modified corn starch, xanthan gum and lipol- ized butter oil. The District’s first move was to


hire Mills as its new food service director in January. Since taking over, Mills has toured national models of school-food reform: Great Kids Farms, an education- al center run by the Baltimore City Public Schools; the Wash- ington Jesuit Academy, where DC Central Kitchen cooks locally sourced meals from scratch; and the Edible Schoolyard, an organ- ic teaching garden and kitchen pioneered by chef-restaurateur Alice Waters in Berkeley, Calif. Six vendors, including Chart- wells, expressed interest in the pilot programs, which together are worth about $2 million an- nually. Anthony Tata, chief oper- ating officer for D.C. schools, said that smaller vendors had pre- vailed because they had more ex- tensive relationships with local farmers than national corpora-


tions, for which it is often more cost-effective to buy produce from production farms in Cali- fornia. “When we started this process about 10 months ago, we realized that we could have fresher prod- ucts served in our cafeterias,” Ta- ta said. “And the best way to do it was to change where they’re get- ting it from.” The pilot programs begin Aug. 23, the first day of the new school year. They will be evaluated throughout the school year based on cost, student participa- tion and nutrition. If the pro- grams are successful, Tata said, the District has the option to ex- tend or expand them to more schools. The school system is holding a roundtable Tuesday for parents and teachers to discuss changes in the food service. The meeting is at 7 p.m. on the 10th floor of D.C. schools headquarters, 1200 First St. NE.


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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010 LOCAL DIGEST THE DISTRICT


Boy, 16, charged in infant’s slaying


A 16-year-old boy was arrest- ed and charged with murder in the death last month of a 4- month-old, D.C. police said Monday. Police and emergency person- nel went to the 2100 block of 14th Street SE about 4:21 p.m. on July 25 in response to a re- port of an unconscious infant, police said in a news release. Ja- Kai Wilson was taken to a hospi- tal, where he was pronounced dead at 4:55 pm. The chief medical examiner ruled the cause of death to be multiple “blunt impact trau- mas,” and the death was ruled a homicide, police said. The 16-year-old was arrested


Friday in Southeast Washington after a warrant charging him with murder and first-degree cruelty to children was issued. Police did not name him. —David P. Marino-Nachison


Nurses union votes for one-day strike


The union representing 1,600 nurses at Washington Hospital Center voted overwhelmingly over the weekend to approve a one-day strike to protest the fir- ing of 18 nurses who failed to re- port to work during and after snowstorms in February, a union spokeswoman said Mon- day. Nurses voted 526 to 147 in fa- vor of a one-day strike, more than the two-thirds majority re- quired. Two members ab- stained.


Nine of the nurses have since


returned to work. The union had argued that the hospital used unfair labor practices when it fired the nurs- es for not reporting to work. Federal law requires the union to give management 10 calendar days’ notice before a strike can occur. The union, which is in con-


MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray was told this year to lower or move his residential fence.


The fines are in dispute, with the department objecting to Gray’s initial appeal. But Gray had the section of fence in ques-


tion along Branch Avenue taken down late last month. As he decides how to fill the gap in front of his home, Gray


said he cannot bear to look in his garage, where he stored the pieces of the $12,600 fence. marimowa@washpost.com


Officials criticize Fenty’s handling of summer jobs program by Michael Laris D.C. Council members and the


city’s auditor sharply criticized Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s manage- ment of the city’s summer jobs program Monday, and some said they did not support extending it for seven working days, as the mayor has requested. District Auditor Deborah K.


Nichols testified Monday at an oversight session that those ad- ministering the youth employ- ment program had demonstrated a pattern of “reckless disregard” for funding limits put on the pro- gram. Years of poor fiscal disci- pline in the jobs program have posed “a threat to other vital Dis- trict programs and the District’s fiscal stability in these austere economic times,” Nichols said.


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BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 97 B AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT ENTITLED "MINOR SUBDIVISION PLAT LOT 97 AND PART OF LOT 96 SHORELAND" AS RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND IN LIBER 4799, FOLIO 231.


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ty administration took money needed by other impoverished residents, particularly the city’s homeless, and used it for summer jobs instead. And they said Fenty (D) shifted funds without inform- ing the council. The council had limited the program to six weeks and a budget of $22.7million. “You had a program, and you


were going ahead with that pro- gram and that was the end of it,” council member Mary Cheh (D- Ward 3) told the director of the Department of Employment Ser- vices, Joseph P. Walsh, during a heated meeting. Walsh acknowledged that ad-


ministration officials were eager to find additional money for the program. Walsh said officials ag- gressively sought to tap federal stimulus dollars, which came


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July’s heat didn’t set a record, but it felt just like summer ’93


by Martin Weil


No month in Washington’s offi- cial weather history was ever hot- ter than the month just past. Many Washington residents


suspected that. But on Tuesday, the National Weather Service confirmed it. The average temperature of


July 2010 was 83.1 degrees. In all the years since 1871 in which the weather service has kept records for Washington, no month has ever had an average temperature higher than that. One previous month also had


an average temperature of 83.1 degrees — July 1993. Many memorable events made


it possible for this July to match the record. As the weather service noted


Tuesday, the temperature reached 90 degrees or higher on 21 days.


On three days, the temperature reached into triple digits. Two of those days set records. On July 7, the mercury reached 102 degrees; on July 24, 101. Both were records for those dates. Then there were three days in which the mercury didn’t dip be- low 80 degrees, even overnight. On July 7 and 8, the mercury dipped only as far as 80 degrees. On July 24, the low temperature was 81.


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through in the spring. “It is without a doubt, we re- ceived additional funds beyond what the council gave us. That’s true,” he said. Under questioning, Walsh apologized to council member Michael Brown (D-At Large), chairman of the oversight ses- sion, for not communicating the administration’s plans sooner. In his defense, Walsh said, “my head was down trying to actually run this program.” Walsh said the jobs program had addressed shortcomings identified in the past by city audi- tors.


Council members also ex- pressed frustration that they were not warned earlier by finan- cial officials that the youth em- ployment effort was slated to come in millions of dollars be- yond its original budget. The pro- gram has $34.2 million, enough to cover Fenty’s proposal to ex- tend the program to seven weeks and two days, according to an analysis by Natwar Gandhi, the city’s chief financial officer. To help make up the difference


between the council’s appropria- tion and Fenty’s more expensive program, the administration moved $8.5 million from a feder- al poverty program known as


Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It was a special pot of the TANF funds that came from the federal stimulus, officials said.


Brown said he will push for a


legislative fix requiring Gandhi’s office to alert the council when council-established budgets are altered, as in this case. Brown said a Fenty administra-


tion official had indicated that some of the stimulus-related TANF funds would go to cover the growing needs of the city’s homeless population, but now funds have been shifted away to the summer-jobs effort. Advocates for the homeless said they already faced a shortfall of millions of dollars before the $8.5million was transferred from the Department of Human Services to the summer program. Human Services “does not have


sufficient resources to meet the needs of the most impoverished residents of the District,” accord- ing to testimony from the group So Others Might Eat. “More than 500 families applied for shelter in April-June 2010, a 31 percent in- crease from the year before.” The council is set to take up


Fenty’s request for a program ex- tension Tuesday. larism@washpost.com


tract negotiations with hospital management, is asking that the nurses who were terminated be given their jobs back with back pay. A strike date had not been set. —Lena Sun


VIRGINIA


Special-ed teacher charged with cruelty


A veteran Fairfax County spe- cial education teacher at the Centreville-area Deer Park El- ementary has been charged with felony cruelty to children after being accused of mistreating two boys with autism, according to county police and a spokes- man for the school system. Jennah C. Billeter, 33, of the 11800 block of Federalist Way in Fairfax turned herself in Sunday at the Fairfax jail. Police were contacted by


Child Protective Services re- garding the matter early last month. Their investigation de- termined that the alleged abuse had been taking place since May. Police, the schools and Princi- pal Carol A. Larsen declined to discuss details about the inci- dents, including when they took place and what they entailed. Police said Billeter was also


charged with a misdemeanor simple assault charge for physi- cally assaulting one of the boys, ages 4 and 5. Neither child re- quired medical treatment, po- lice said.


—Mary Pat Flaherty


Man charged with carjacking


A Springfield man has been arrested and charged with steal- ing a van with three children in- side, Fairfax County police said Monday. A woman was sitting in her car in the parking lot of Shop- pers Food Warehouse at 13920 Lee Jackson Memorial Hwy. when a man approached her, yelled, struck her and jumped into the driver’s seat, according to a police news release. He drove off with three chil- dren, all 5 years old, in the back seat, police said. Before leaving the parking lot, he pulled over and told the chil- dren to get out of the car, police said. Officers caught the driver af- ter a chase, which ended when he apparently lost control of the vehicle and it stopped in a grassy area. He was captured as he tried to scale a fence, police said. Charles W. Lawrence, 28, was arrested and charged with car- jacking, three counts of abduc- tion and speeding to elude, po- lice said. No one was injured. —David P. Marino-Nachison


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