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Board hears plans for middle-school and elementary kitchen upgrades, cautioned about state funding limits
Summary
District staff outlined plans to renovate the undersized Dodge Middle School kitchen (estimated ~$1.1M) and replace North Trail Elementary’s dishwasher and ventilation (estimated ~$240,000), and warned that Minnesota Department of Education rules may limit what can be charged to food-service reserves.
District staff presented proposed kitchen renovations at Dodge Middle School and North Trail Elementary, saying Dodge’s service area is cramped and contains much original 1993 equipment, and North Trail’s dishwasher unit and ventilation are beyond their functional life.
The district described a design option to repurpose an adjacent staff-lounge space at Dodge to expand serving flow and estimated the budget for that work at…
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