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Heber-Overgaard board approves wellness plan, including Smart Snacks enforcement and a minimum 25-cent lunch price increase
Summary
The board approved a Wellness Plan that enforces Smart Snacks rules within a 30-minute window around the school day, restricts snack sales during meal service, proposes a minimum 25-cent paid lunch price increase for next year, and sets concession-stand rules tied to the last bell.
The board approved an updated Wellness Plan that the Wellness Committee developed to ensure Smart Snacks compliance and protect school food-service revenue. The committee recommended limiting sales to Smart Snack-compliant items within 30 minutes before and after the school day, restricting snack sales during cafeteria meal service, and allowing other concession items after the last bell.
Members discussed how the 30-minute Smart Snacks window complicates fundraisers and concession schedules; the committee will propose practical solutions for events that occur earlier than 30 minutes before dismissal. The Wellness Plan also includes a planned minimum 25-cent increase in paid lunch prices for the next school year (a larger-than-typical increase compared with recent 5–10 cent annual changes) and a prohibition on homemade items during the school day, with limited exceptions for board-approved fundraiser items outside the Smart Snacks window.
Business Manager Andrea Despain provided free-and-reduced lunch eligibility estimates: approximately 60% at Mountain Meadows and 50% at Capps; the junior high and high school did not consistently qualify for district-wide free-and-reduced status. The board approved the Wellness Plan as presented.
