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“the food services department provides nutritious and appealing meals and snacks ” while 46 percent of teachers disagreed.
In the past school year, the school food services took in total revenues of $375,036, but spent a total of $453,431. The revenues included an increuse in federal and state subsidies for meals served to lower-income students, but a decline in cash receipts for meals purchased. On the expense side, cafeteria employee salaries and benefits totaled $255,120 and purchase of food products cost $182,899, up $20,200 from the previous year.
A year ago, in an effort to cut food services losses, Chappell proposed modest increases in the prices charged for cafeteria meals, but the School Board resisted the move and the superintendent withdrew the proposal. While food costs have escalated, the prices charged have remained level for several years.
In its year-end budget reconciliation meeting, the School Board authorized a long list of payments to vendors, some of which illustrated how soaring energy costs are biting into the schools budget.
Filling the schools’ tanks with 7,504 gallons of fuel oil last week cost $29,997, based on a price of $3.92 cents per gallon. A year ago, it cost only ubout half as much - $15,600 - to fill the tanks, when prices were much lower.
The price of diesel fuel for buses purchased last week was $3.96 a gallon, compared to $2.24 a yeur ago. Chappell said filling the diesel tanks cost $18,836. Another $12,709 was spent on buying gasoline at $3.56, up from $2.48 a year ago.
The largest year-end expenditure approved by the board was $56,295 for a 2009 Blue Bird 35-passenger bus. The superintendent said the smaller bus, to be used on a long-mileage route, will save $2,(XX) or more per year in fuel costs compared to a large bus.
Finance Director Bonnie Hahn provided the board
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