Meal Charge Policy
The Board of Education recognizes that, on occasion, students may forget to bring meal money to school. To ensure students to not go hungry, but also to promote responsible student behavior and to minimize the fiscal burden on the district, the Board will allow students who may forget meal money to "charge" the cost of the meal to be paid back at a later date subject to the terms in this policy.
- No more than $22.00 (10 student days) may be charged for full paying students. For reduced-priced meals, no more than $4.00 (10 days of lunches) will be charged.
- No Ala Carte items may be charged.
- A computer-generated point of sale system will be used for identifying and recording all payments, charged meals, as well as for collecting repayments.
- Parents will be notified when the charge limit has been reached.
- When a student exceeds the charge limit, the student will be provided a cheese sandwich, fruit or vegetable, and a milk.
- The policy applies to all paying students, whether they are paying full-price or reduced-price.
NOTE: No child should be deprived of school lunch because he/she is economically disadvantaged. Pupils may be provided free or reduced-priced breakfasts and lunches on a continuing, intermittent, or emergency basis.
Required application forms for the federally subsidized free and/or reduced lunch programs are mailed in August and are available throughout the year.
Repayments of charges are the responsibility of the building principal's office. Food service will forward the necessary information to the principal's office and parents or guardians will be contacted requesting payment. Collected funds will be received by the principal's office and forwarded to the food service department for daily deposit.
The principal's office shall send a letter home to all parents before the opening day of school, notifying them of the requirements of this policy. The policy will also be published on the school’s website.
