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Food-service budget projects small surplus for 2025–26 under ‘normal year’ assumptions
Summary
Food service staff told the Wallingford School District Special Operations Committee the 2025–26 food-service budget assumes no emergency federal/state funding and anticipates a $19,178 surplus, with revenues of $2,651,732 and costs of $2,632,554.
The Wallingford School District’s projected food-service budget for 2025–26 assumes a ‘‘normal year’’ with no federal or state emergency funding, and shows total revenues of $2,651,732 against total costs of $2,632,554, producing a planned surplus of $19,178.
Food-service presenter Mr. Bondi told the Special Operations Committee the budget uses last September–October meal counts extrapolated over a full year and assumes customary annual increases in federal and state reimbursement rates (Bondi cited typical increases of about 2 cents for paid lunch, 18 cents for reduced and free lunch, and about 9 cents for reduced and free breakfast). The proposal assumes…
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