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So some of the preliminary findings made us take some some action steps right away. One of the first things we did is we brought the student nutrition budget analyst to be co-located with finance so that all they have to do is kind of walk around the corner and be able to access accounting and finance staff and that we can make sure that we're checking in, you know, directly to make sure some of those processes are being done. Additionally, we realized that we have a capacity issue in some of our areas, and so we immediately identified the need to hire a student nutrition accountant and to have a dedicated person who is working on our side of the house in finance and accounting to be able to facilitate a lot of the work that needs to be done. And then, as I had mentioned, we reached out to some third-party reviewers to be able to validate a lot of the findings that we saw. As I mentioned, it's a really complicated program and we wanted to make sure that we were taking a look at it appropriately, that there was nothing in the blind spot for things that we need to shore up and that we had a process in place to be able to do that.

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