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Food service director seeks to expand Head Start catering, convert cook role and add driver

Upper Dublin School District Finance Committee · March 26, 2026
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Summary

Upper Dublin’s food-service manager proposed expanding sponsor-to-sponsor catering for the MCIU Head Start from one on-site classroom to four sites, increasing meals served from 19 to 141 students, converting an existing second-cook position and adding a part‑time delivery driver; staff said the change is self-supporting and could generate roughly $40,000–$60,000 in annual profit.

Kristen Dely, the district’s food‑service lead, asked the finance committee on March 18 to advance a package that would expand the district’s sponsor‑to‑sponsor catered meal service for the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit (MCIU) Head Start program and the personnel needed to operate it.

Dely said the district now prepares meals at the high school for one Head Start classroom and has done so since the 1920 school year in various locations. The proposal would extend service to three additional (out‑of‑district) sites,…

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