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Food service supervisor says program is self-sustaining, highlights scratch cooking and equipment upgrades
Summary
The district’s food and nutrition supervisor told the board the program operates a $4 million budget without general fund support, increased meals served, added scratch-cooked items, won grants and completed kitchen equipment upgrades, while flagging facility constraints.
Tara Gilby, the district’s food service supervisor, told the Grants Pass School Board that the food and nutrition program now operates as a self-sustaining department and described recent work to expand scratch cooking, replace aging equipment and increase meal counts.
“We operate a $4,000,000 budget,” Gilby said. “We do not use any money from the District General Fund at all. We are self sufficient.” She said about 88% of revenue comes from reimbursable meals across campuses, roughly 10% from grants and the remainder from…
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