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Alamo Heights ISD reviews required wellness plan; elementary lunch monitors to be cut next year due to budget
Summary
District staff reviewed the annual, state-required wellness plan and told the advisory committee that campus principals implement the goals. Because of budget cuts, the paid outside lunch monitors used in elementary cafeterias will not be funded next year; principals are working to cover supervision with existing staff.
Alamo Heights Independent School District staff presented the district's annual wellness-plan report to the District Educational Advisory Committee and said state law requires each district to set goals in four areas: nutrition promotion, nutrition education, coordinated physical education and school-based wellness for students and staff.
The presentation explained that campus principals are responsible for implementing those goals and district staff report the plan to the school trustees. The presenter said the plan is a compliance requirement and asked the committee if they had questions before the report went to the board.
Committee members were told the district has nutrition guidelines and that this is primarily an elementary-level concern because older students exercise greater choice in what they buy and eat. The district highlighted work to promote cafeteria communication, elementary physical-education programs and efforts to keep students active.
Staff reported that for the last several years the district has hired paid, part-day monitors to supervise elementary cafeterias but that next year, because of budget cuts, "we're not gonna have outside monitors." Principals are working on plans to use existing staff to maintain supervision so students can sit, eat and be monitored.
The presenter said the wellness report the committee reviewed covers the current year and that next year's report will reflect the change in lunch supervision. Committee members asked whether parent-teacher organizations might help with lunch supervision; the presenter said principals were considering options but had not finalized plans.
The committee closed the item after members had an opportunity to ask clarifying questions and the presenter said the district will share the final report with trustees as required by law.
