Carmichaels Area board votes on lunch prices
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CARMICHAELS – Carmichaels Area School Board Monday approved several personnel matters and voted to increase student lunches by 5 cents as required by the federal subsidized lunch program.
The board hired Stacie Carolla as an English teacher and Molly Mullaney as a special education teacher.
Daysha Donaldson also was hired as a school nurse. A motion to hire Amanda Anderson for a second special education position failed in a 4 to 3 vote. Two board members, Jerry Simkovic and Jason Voithofer, were absent.
The board approved a sabbatical for librarian Rita Imrich and were notified Ryan Krull, physical education teacher, reached tenure status. The board also accepted the resignation of assistant band director Joanna Walker.
The board hired Quincy Hathaway and Ben Hathaway as field house co-monitors at $15 an hour. The board accepted the resignation of Albert McMinn, field house monitor, and thanked McMinn for his years of service.
The board voted reluctantly to approve the increase in lunch prices, which will raise the student lunch price in the junior-senior high school to $2 and in the elementary school to $1.80.
Board president Tom Ricco said the increase was approved only because it was required for the district to continue participation in the federal subsidized lunch program.
Business manager Amy Todd explained the federal government wants lunch prices districts charge paying students to be more in line with what the federal government pays the districts in free lunch subsidies.
The subsidy for each free lunch is now greater than what Carmichaels Area charges paying students for a lunch, she said. The government doesn’t want districts to subsidize student lunches with federal subsidies the districts receive from the free lunch program, she said,
Superintendent John Menhart reported on the new state-mandated graduation requirement that students, beginning with those now entering tenth grade, will have to meet to graduate.
The mandate requires students to pass Keystone examinations in Algebra I, literature and biology or to complete a project-based assessment.
The board approved spending an amount not to exceed $40,000 to construct a walkway to the modular buildings that will be used while the junior-senior high school is being renovated.