Sheldon school meal prices increase for next year

Nevada Daily Mail

Sheldon elementary and high school students will have to bring another nickel for breakfast and lunch next school year. Breakfast will be $1.25, elementary lunch will be $1.45 and high school lunch will be $1.95.

Sheldon Board of Education voted 7-0 for the meal price increase to stay in compliance with the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 at its meeting Wednesday.

The legislation authorizes funding and sets policy for USDA's core child nutrition programs: the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, the Summer Food Service Program and the Child and Adult Care Food Program, according to its website.

In other business, the board members listened to a presentation on INetVisions and voted 5-2 to switch to the new Internet service provider next school year for $30,216.

In the superintendent's report, superintendent Tim Judd compared the prices between Apple Bus and Durham Bus Service for contracting bus services. The board members directed Judd to ask if Apple Bus would match their current year's rate and voted unanimously to approve a contract with Apple Bus for one more year at the current rate.

The 2014-'15 budget hearing is set for 7 p.m. June 30, and salary schedules will be discussed at that time.

In other business, principal Jason Irwin recommended three changes to the student handbook.

"Students using the phone to make long distance calls will be charged 25 cents, no outside drinks will be allowed in school and the no nits policy will be removed from the head lice policy," he said.

The board members voted 5-2 to accept the changes.

Judd told the board that he submitted an application for a kitchen equipment grant.

"I submitted a grant on May 28 for $5,015 to purchase a new stove/oven," he said. "We should know if we get the grant in late June."