Improving Southern Warehouse: Cold Storage Project Proposal
The Division of Food and Nutrition at agri.nv.gov is proposing a capital improvement project for the Southern warehouse to address challenges with third-party cold storage. The current arrangement has led to food spoilage, delivery delays, and compliance difficulties. The proposal aims to develop on-site cold storage capacity to enhance monitoring, order accuracy, and efficiency. The project includes building cold storage containers to facilitate proper storage of food for programs serving school children and low-income seniors.
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Capital Improvement Project Proposal Southern Warehouse Cold Storage Homa Anooshehpoor, Administrator Division of Food and Nutrition agri.nv.gov
Southern Warehouse Cold Storage Project The NDA manages two warehouses that store and distribute food to schools, community organizations, and Tribal communities. The Northern warehouse, located in Reno, has always had in-house cold storage. The Southern warehouse, located in Las Vegas, must utilize a third-party contractor for cold storage. agri.nv.gov
Southern Warehouse Services The Southern warehouse stores and distributes food for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) for low-income seniors CSFP served 2,000 seniors per month in 2021 NSLP served 5,500,964 meals to school aged children in 2022 agri.nv.gov
Southern Warehouse The Southern warehouse contains 5,150 sq. feet of dry storage space but has no cold storage capacity The NDA currently leases 2,250 sq. feet of cold storage space from Las Vegas Ice & Cold Storage for $68,000 per year. This arrangement poses challenges for NDA staff when monitoring inventory, ensuring order accuracy, and tracking best-if-use-by dates agri.nv.gov
Southern Warehouse Challenges with Current Arrangement Over$24,000 worth of food has been lost to the two programs since January 2021 due to improper inventory rotation at the cold storage Facility, resulting in spoilage Orders pulled by cold storage staff are often incorrect or occasionally contain past-date food, resulting in delivery delays to our partners NDA staff spend approximately 100 hours per year driving to and waiting at the cold storage facility, putting over 1,000 miles per year on NDA vehicles A lack of control over the food inventory makes ensuring compliance with federal regulations unnecessarily difficult and time consuming agri.nv.gov
Proposed Solution The NDA requests assistance from the State Public Works Division to develop on-site cold storage capacity, in the same location as the Southern warehouse, consisting of: an engineered concrete supporting six (6) cold storage containers Containers can serve as coolers or freezers to accommodate all types of products NDA staff would be able to monitor condition of all products and ensure accuracy of all orders agri.nv.gov
Current Warehouse Dry Storage agri.nv.gov
Las Vegas Property & Proposed Location Proposed Location For Cold Storage agri.nv.gov
Proposed Cold Storage Location agri.nv.gov
Consequences If Not Approved Without an onsite solution, the NDA will continue to encounter inventory loss and compliance issues, placing federal program funding at risk. agri.nv.gov
