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Little Rock Food Commission outlines 2025 accomplishments and plans to tackle school meal debt

Little Rock City Board of Directors · December 10, 2025
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Kevin Shalin, chair of the newly formed Little Rock Food Commission, reviewed 2025 accomplishments including outreach on student meal debt, meetings with state legislative staff, $15,000 in grocery gift cards purchased for affected families and more than $50,000 raised toward a $175,000 school-debt initiative for Little Rock schools.

Kevin Shalin, chair of the Little Rock Food Commission, reported to the board on Dec. 9 that the newly formed commission focused in 2025 on organization, a campaign addressing a $175,000 Little Rock School District student-meal debt, and outreach to state elected officials and school nutrition leaders.

"We started out this is a newly formed commission... Our first…

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