CHARGING PROCEDURE
Procedure for Student Lunch/Meal Accounts
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) requires school food authorities to establish written administrative guidelines and procedures for meal charges. Eastern Greene School Corporation will adhere to the following meal charge procedure.
• All cafeteria purchases are to be prepaid before meal service begins. We accept cash, check or you can add money on MySchoolBucks.
• A student may charge up to 0 meals maximum as long as they establish and maintain a good credit history of making payments on their food service accounts.
• A staff member may charge up to $5 as long as they establish and maintain a good credit history of making payments on their food service accounts.
• A student who has charged a meal may not charge or purchase "a la carte" item(s), including extra main entrees.
• If a student repeatedly comes to school with no lunch and no money, food service employees must report this to the building principal as this may be a sign of abuse or neglect and the proper authorities should be contacted.
• The food service manager or other school personnel will coordinate communications with the parent(s)/guardian(s) to resolve the matter of unpaid charges.
• If food services staff suspects that a student may be abusing this policy, written notice will be provided to the parent(s)/guardian(s) that if he/she continues to abuse this policy, the privilege of charging meals will be refused.
• Food service manager will also email letters each week to parents of students who carry negative balances of $1 and above.
• Students who graduate or withdraw from the corporation are given the option to transfer the funds to another student or to receive a refund. If no response is received within 30 days the student’s lunch/meal account will close and the funds will no longer available. Unclaimed remaining balances will be transferred to school lunch fund.
