The Board believes that every child should have the opportunity to eat school breakfast and lunch and that it is the parent/guardian’s responsibility to ensure the student(s) has:
a. Funds deposited throughout the school year to the family account or
b. A current free/reduced application completed, reviewed, and approved each school year.
These regulations are mailed each school year to all households and households transferring to the Webster City School District throughout the year.
I. PURPOSE/POLICY:
The purpose of this regulation is to establish consistent meal account procedures throughout the District to ensure the school nutrition program maintains a stable budget. The goals of this regulation are:
- To ensure that all students are treated with dignity in the serving line regarding meal accounts.
- To support positive situations with staff, District business policies, students and parent/guardian to the maximum extent possible.
- To encourage parent/guardian to assume the responsibility of meal payments and to promote self-responsibility of the high school students.
- To establish a consistent District regulation regarding charges and collection of charges.
II. SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY:
School Nutrition Services: Responsible for maintaining charge records and notifying the parent/guardian with written documentation for negative accounts. The school nutrition services department will also notify the administration office of outstanding balances monthly or more frequently as needed.
School Administration: Responsible for contacting parent/guardian and collection agency if the account is owing more than $50.00
Parent/Guardian: Immediate payment for all meals purchased.
III. ADMINISTRATION:
- All students will be allowed to charge a maximum of $10.00 for reimbursable meals only.
- High school students: No charges will be allowed for a la carte foods and beverages if funds are not available. In this instance, they may purchase a la carte foods and beverages with cash.
- Parent/guardian of students with negative balances will be contacted by the Food Service Department. This will be as a written letter, electronic e-mail, or phone call to the household.
- The Superintendent and Board will be notified monthly of all negative balances.
- Upon reaching a negative balance of $50.00 or more, parent/guardian will be notified by mail from the School Administration of the collection agency handling their account.
- If you have a student(s), and are making no attempt to pay a negative balance, the Webster City School District reserves the right to send your account to collections with ANY delinquent balance due.
- Parent/guardian of graduating seniors must pay all balances in full. Any excess funds in the account will be mailed by check after graduation if there are no other students in the household enrolled in the District.
- Any money remaining at the end of the school year will be transferred to student(s) in the same household that are still enrolled.