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Amador County USD approves $4.3M food‑service spending plan, moves forward with farm‑to‑school partnership
Summary
The Amador County Unified School District board approved a multiyear spending plan for its food services Fund 13, including kitchen upgrades, new positions and an MOU with the Mother Lode Land Trust to pilot a school farm supplying student‑grown produce and CTE opportunities.
The Amador County Unified School District board on Wednesday approved a spending plan to reduce an identified Fund 13 excess after the food‑service program reported an ending balance above $4.3 million.
District staff told the board the food program netted just over $1 million last year and that, under California rules, the district must spend or reallocate revenue that exceeds six months of allowable expenditures. The board endorsed a staged drawdown—about $764,000 this year, $1.1 million next year and $550,000 the year after—that staff say will go toward equipment, personnel, meal‑quality initiatives and deferred maintenance.
Superintendent and business‑office staff…
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