MASON CITY – The Mason City School Board will meet Monday evening at 5:30 PM at the Administration Building.
Among the items on the agenda, the board will:
– Consider food service breakfast and lunch fee increases for 2013-2014 – Executive Director of Business and Financial Services Ramona Jeffrey will present a recommendation to increase food service prices 10 cents a meal for lunch and breakfast for the 2013-2014 school year to meet Department of Education recommendations. Food service daily rate if approved: K-6 Breakfast $1.30, 7-12 breakfast $1.55, K-6 lunch $2.30, 7-12 lunch $2.55, adult lunch $3.30. Approval is recommended.
– Consider an election for an Instructional Support Levy
– Accept the resignation of Director Mark Young
– Consider a tentative agreement with the Mason City Education Association
– Executive Director of Leadership and Learning Kathryn Schladweiler and Director of Secondary Programs TJ Jumper will present a recommendation for textbook/materials adoption
– Superintendent Anita Micich will lead a “Blue Zones moment”
– Approve the graduating class of 2013
The meals are already too expensive for what the kids get. Whoever they have the contract withfrom this past year, the kids say the food is awful. So now we are going to have to pay for more bad food? And no I am not one who gets free meals, in fact I have to budget about a hundred dollars a month if my child eats breakfast and lunch at school, it’s pricey!
We used to just go over to Hy-Vee and eat off the Deli.
$100 a month? 20 days, two meals? $2.50 a meal? Send them to HyVee, see what that cost. Plus, kids are going to. Say terrible things about it, they are going to complain for many reasons. Maybe things are pricey, but you won’t get more for the money, with the exception of sending lunch from home. But then that has to be made from scratch otherwise it will be more expensive.
Raising the price of meals … for the few who can afford them. Most kids are on FREE or REDUCED PRICE meals here in Mason. The costs will get passed right on down from landlords to their broke as a joke tenants on that tax levy. That’s just another example.
So the people that can afford to pay will pay the extra for the ones that cant. Good luck with the levy!!!!!!!!