Code No. 711.7
SCHOOL FOOD SERVICE CODE OF CONDUCT
Code of Conduct for School Food Service Department
The Riverside Community School Distrcit seeks to conduct all procurement procedures in compliance with stated regulations; and to prohibit conflicts of interest and actions of employees engaged in the selection, award and administrtion of contracts.
No employee, officer, or agent may particiapte in the selection, award, administation of a contract supported by a Federal, State, or local funds if he or she has real or apparent conflict of interest. Such a conflict of interst would arise when the employee, officer, or agent, any member of his or her immediate family, his or her partner, or an organization which employs or is about to employ any of the parties indicated herein, has a financial or other interest in or tangible personal benefit from a firm considered for a contract.
The officers, employees, and agents of the non-Ferderal entity may neither solcit nor accept gratuities, favors, or anyhting of monetary value from contrractors or parties to subcontracts. However, organizations may set standards for situations in which the financial interst is not substantial or the giftis an unsolcitied item of nomial value.
Local policy allows for a gift that is unsolicited and of nomial value, this is regulated by:
- School Board Policy 221-Gifts to Board of Directors'
- School Board Policy 402.4 Gitfs to Employees.
DisciplimaryAcions:
As outlined in district policy, disciplinary consequences will be applied for violations of such standards by officers, employees, or agents of the distrcit.
- School Board Policy 203 Board of Directors' Confict of Interest
- School Board Policy 401.3 Employee Conflcit of Interest
Legal References:
2 CFR Part 200.318(c)(1), formerly 7 CFR Part 3016(b)(3)
7 CFR 3019.42
State Procurement Code
School Board Policy 221, 203, 402.2 & 401.3
Approved: 5-16-2022 Reviewed: Revised: