Financial management

Local and recipient agencies shall use program funds to pay all or part of the direct costs for intrastate storage and distribution of United States department of agriculture food. The department acts as a passthrough entity and uses state and federal program funding to pay for warehouse and transportation expenses on behalf of those programs receiving United States department of agriculture foods from a state-contracted warehouse facility. Local agencies that have depleted their state program funding are responsible for payment of warehousing and transportation within thirty days of shipment.