A.
Voluntary contributions shall be allowed and may be solicited for all services
for which funds are received under Title III, as defined at Section 10.120
"Definitions".
B. Methods of
solicitation for voluntary contributions shall be non-coercive.
C. The AAA shall provide service providers
with policy and guidelines for accepting voluntary contributions and guest fees
from non-eligible consumers.
1. The AAA shall
establish and maintain procedures to protect the privacy of the consumer's
decision to contribute or not contribute toward the service rendered.
2. Eligible consumers shall not be denied
service(s) provided under Title III, as defined at Section 10.120
"Definitions", because the consumer's decision not to contribute.
3. Service providers shall determine the
costs of services provided and display a suggested contribution schedule as
well as required guest fees for services at the entry point of the service
premises.
D. The AAA and
service providers shall not perform a means test for any service for which
contributions are accepted, or deny services to any eligible consumer who does
not contribute to the cost of the service.
E. Guest Fees
Guest fees are required charges equal to the full cost of the
service to persons who are not eligible consumers of the program but are
receiving services. Fees shall be determined using guidelines and procedures
established by the SUA.
F.
Usage Fees
Usage fees include charges for the use of equipment or other
fixed assets acquired with OAA funds. The minimum usage fee shall be charged
when such assets are used for non-contract purposes. If nutrition project
contractors or sub-contractors use equipment purchased with Title III, as
defined at Section 10.120 "Definitions", funds to produce meals sold to other
organizations:
1. The compensation
shall be directly credited to the cost of goods or services provided under the
current contract, if the equipment was acquired under the current year's
contract; and,
2. If the equipment
was acquired with a prior year's contract, the compensation shall be recorded
as program income.
G.
Sales of Equipment and Supplies
Proceeds from sale of equipment or supplies not used for
replacement equipment shall be accounted for as program income.
H. Program income earned after
contract support has ended shall be subject to the terms of the contract or
subcontract. If this category of income is not specifically detailed in the
contract document, the agency may dispose of the income as it
chooses.
