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Superintendent flags lead testing compliance, food-service reimbursement risks and summer facilities projects
Summary
Superintendent Krista told the board the district will test all faucets for lead this fall to meet ORS requirements, noted the Community Eligibility Provision reimbursement levels (57% eligible now) and warned rising costs may require general-fund support for food service; she also outlined multiple summer facilities projects.
Superintendent Krista told the board the district is preparing to test all faucets for lead and water as required by Oregon statute and that the district is not yet in compliance but will complete testing in the fall. "We are not currently in compliance with that particular ORS requirement, but we will be in compliance, in the fall," Krista said.
Krista also reviewed the district's Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) status, noting last year's community-data calculation put the district at 57% and that free-meal reimbursement is roughly $4.65 per meal while paid reimbursement is about $0.64. "All kids get free breakfast and lunch," Krista said when board members asked whether students still pay. She warned that if CEP participation or rates decline, the general fund may need to supplement food service because reimbursement increases have not kept pace with food and employee-cost inflation.
Krista closed by listing summer facilities projects: new flooring for a fifth-grade modular, blacktop resurfacing tied to Safe Routes to School, repainting lot lines and installing rubber parking curbs to address safety concerns identified by the district safety committee. Staff gave a June 20 start date for the Quonset-hut project and said resurfacing, painting and other contractor work will continue throughout the summer.
