College students and households shopping for breakfast or lunch at Indian Prairie Faculty District 204 faculties can anticipate to see a better price ticket for meals subsequent 12 months, after the varsity board not too long ago authorized the district’s request to extend costs throughout the board by 25 cents per meal.
Beforehand, lunch was set at $3.30 for elementary faculty college students, $3.40 for center faculty college students and $3.45 for prime schoolers, per the district’s web site. Breakfast was priced at $2.25 for all college students. The district additionally provides free breakfast and lunch to eligible college students, and lowered charges of 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch for college kids who qualify.
Subsequent faculty 12 months, lunch will value $3.55 for elementary faculty college students, $3.65 for center faculty college students and $3.70 for highschool college students paying full value for meals, based on a memo from the district’s Director of Help Operations Ron Johnson to the varsity board that was included in Monday’s assembly agenda. Breakfast subsequent faculty 12 months will value $2.50 for these paying full value.
The next faculty 12 months, costs will enhance by one other 25 cents for lunch, whereas breakfast costs will stay at $2.50, per the memo.
The meal value will increase had been authorized unanimously by the district’s faculty board on the assembly on Monday night as a part of the consent agenda.
In accordance with the district’s memo, the rise is required for compliance with the Wholesome, Starvation-Free Children Act, handed by Congress in 2010. The district says that laws requires that they guarantee there are enough funds supplied to the nonprofit faculty meals service account to serve lunches for college kids who will not be eligible free of charge or lowered value meals. Reimbursements free of charge and lowered value meals can’t subsidize the price of paid lunches, the district famous.
The “true value” of offering lunch to district college students, a memo from Johnson to the board states, is definitely $6.14, however the price to interrupt even is round $5.36 when factoring within the income generated by paid pupil meals and a la carte gadgets in addition to federal reimbursements from america Division of Agriculture. In accordance with Johnson’s memo, the district is at present paying its meals service supplier, OrganicLife, about $4.41 per lunch served and about $2.31 for breakfast.
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