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Cabarrus school nutrition staff recommend holding student meal prices; four vendor contracts recommended for renewal
Summary
School nutrition staff told the board they will not raise student meal prices for 2025-26 and asked the board to renew four annual vendor contracts (groceries, produce, milk, cleaning chemicals). Staff cited federal reimbursements, donated-food use and careful purchasing as reasons no increase is needed now.
Stephanie Almon, a district school nutrition staff member, reported to the Cabarrus County Board of Education on June 2 that the district does not plan to raise student meal prices for the 2025-26 school year.
Almon said the district last raised prices in 2022-23 and that a combination of USDA donated-food allocations, federal COVID-era reimbursements and careful purchasing allowed the program to hold prices this coming year. "We have not done a price increase since 22-23," she said, adding…
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