The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 6 V.S.A. § 4723)
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§ 4723. Professional development for food service personnel
(a) The Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, Food
and Markets, the Commissioner of Health, and farm-to-school organizations and partners,
shall offer professional development opportunities for public school food service
and child care personnel and child care resource development specialists. Training
shall include information about strategies for procuring, processing, and serving
locally grown foods, especially with regard to federal procurement program requirements,
as well as information about nutrition, obesity prevention, coping with severe food
allergies, universal recycling, and food service operations. The Secretary of Education
may use a portion of the funds appropriated for this training session to pay a portion
of or all expenses for attendees and to develop manuals or other materials to help
in the training.
(b) The Secretary of Education shall, with existing programs and organizations, provide
training related to procurement of local food and technical assistance to school food
service and child care personnel and use a portion of the funds appropriated for this
purpose to enable the trained people to provide technical assistance at the school
and school district levels.
(c) Training provided under this section shall promote the policies established in the
Vermont School Wellness Policy Guidelines developed by the Agencies of Agriculture,
Food and Markets and of Education and the Department of Health, updated in June 2015,
or the guidelines’ successor. (Added 2007, No. 24, § 2; amended 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 252, 302, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2017, No. 63, § 1.)