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Meal Charging Policy 2024-2025

Meal Charging Policy 2024-2025


Nutritious meals are very important to a child’s learning. USD 443 Nutrition program understands this and wants to give all children the opportunity to have a nutritious breakfast and lunch. Listed below are the districts guidelines pertaining to meal charging.

 
Approved Reduced, Full Pay students: 
 

PK-12 Students: at any point during the school year, a student shall have no more than 10 days outstanding unpaid meal charges at one time.

  
District Emails using Skyward will be sent home daily when students balance is at $20.00 for Full Pay students and at $6.00 for Reduced students. 


When the student falls in the negative amount, the following steps will be taken, starting at: 


4 days of charges - the cashier/manager will send Talking Point, notify family liaison/counselor and principal of the charges and the school will contact parent/guardian. 


8 days of charges - the cashier /manager will send Talking Point, notify family liaison/counselor and principal of the charges and the school will contact parent/guardian, and then notify the Nutrition Director / or assistant who will then notify Superintendent or designee of the charges and they will contact parent or guardian. 


10 days of charges - At this point the district has the ability to declare child is in need of care and take appropriate action. Then, consider this account is a bad debt for purpose of USDA Federal regulation and the district shall transfer funds for the bad debt into the Nutrition program account using non-federal funds for the unpaid meal debt. The Nutrition program will provide a list of students with bad debt to the Business office at end of each semester and again at the end of the school year for payment. 

 

District will not allow any charges for ala cart items - students must have funds on account to purchase said items.


*In an effort to help parents manage their students accounts USD 443 does offer On-line payments by accessing Skyward family accounts.  Please contact your child’s school to set up a skyward account.