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Mount Vernon trustees push for new food‑service bidding after student complaints about lunches
Summary
Trustees and parents raised widespread concerns about Aramark-run school meals; district officials reworked the food-service RFP, said they submitted contract changes to the state with approval, and set a May 12 RFP publication and a June 3 goal to award a new vendor.
Board members and parents used the May 6 meeting to raise ongoing complaints about school lunches served under the district’s contract with Aramark and to press the district to speed up a re-solicitation of food-service vendors.
"The lunch is super nasty, and we, the student, call it trash food," a letter from a Grimes School student read aloud by Trustee Mitchell as evidence of pervasive dissatisfaction. Another student letter read: "School breakfast is good... I dislike their yogurts. They taste bland." The trustee said she collected 63 letters from students across grades and buildings describing inconsistent…
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