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Board warns of post‑COVID funding squeeze for food service and approves lunch-price increases
Summary
Board members said ending COVID-era grants and higher food costs have reduced the food-service balance. The board approved recommended student and adult lunch price changes under the required equity model; specific new prices were not specified in the transcript.
Speaker 1 told the board that most school food-service programs require district subsidy and that the balance previously bolstered by COVID relief and supply-chain grants has fallen as those funds ended. "All the COVID grants are gone...and as cost had gone up...it just can't keep up with cost," Speaker 1 said, describing rising…
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