By Don Rutledge
FPS Associate Editor
April 21, 2009
Big changes are in the offing for the school lunch program in the Carrollton Exempted Village School District next school year.
At the April 14 meeting of the Carrollton Board of Education, the five-member Board voted 4-1 to advertise for and accept bids for pre-plated meals.
Voting No on the motion was Board Member Bonnie Little who said after the meeting she didn’t feel there was enough time to talk with different people about the change over from hot meals currently prepared in the school cafeteria to the pre-plated meals.
The packaged meals program was initiated last Sept. 22 at Augusta school where Preferred Meals Systems of Moosic, PA., served 119 meals for the 223 students on the first day at the school. The meals are shipped from Moosic, PA., to Augusta school where they are heated and served by a cook.
Next year’s revamping of school lunch program will result in the reduction of five cooks and a secretary, according to Mrs. Kitty Weir, Food Services supervisor for the school district.
“Actually, it will involve a total of six cooks, but we’re not replacing one who is retiring at the end of the school year,” she said.
Carrollton Schools Superintendent Palmer Fogler said the pre-plated meals will be served beginning with the 2009-2010 school year at Augusta, Dellroy and Carrollton elementary schools, along with Bell-Herron Middle School.
Hot lunches will be prepared and served in the Carrollton school cafeteria to Carrollton High School students in grades 9-12. However, the hot lunches will not include the same menu as in the past.
Mrs. Weir said the menu will basically remain the same each week. For example, Monday’s menu will be the same week after week, along with Tuesday’s, Wednesday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s.
To accommodate the new pre-plated meals program, Mrs. Weir said 1 cook each will be assigned to Augusta and Dellroy schools, two cooks at Bell-Herron where students will eat in the auditorium rather than crossing the street to eat in the school cafeteria, while four cooks will be retained in the cafeteria to help serve pre-plated meals to the elementary students and cook hot lunches for the high school students.
The net savings, according to School District Treasurer Roxanne Mazur, will be $70,000, which represents the increased cost of buying preferred meals and the cuts the school district is able to make.
In other action, the Board:
- REVISED the title description of Gary Bales, whose contract was approved at the March 10 meeting, from Educational Technology Specialist to Director of Technology with a one-year contract at a current salary of $52,019.91.
- ACCEPTED the resignations of Linda Shepherd, a food service employee who is retiring Aug. 14 with 29 years of service, and Mrs. Mariellen Watson, a teacher at Dellroy elementary school who is retiring Aug. 14 with 17 years of service.
- APPROVED two lists of contracts for 160 certificated employees and 106 classified employees.
- APPROVED Family and Medical leaves for Stacey R. Wolfe, a teacher at Carrollton High School for 12 weeks beginning March 2 through May 22, 2009, and Michelle Eddy, a Carrollton elementary teacher, beginning May 4 through May 29.
- APPOINTED Susan C. Morrow as a substitute teacher and classified worker and James L. LeMay III as a classified substitute for the 2008-09 school year.
- ADOPTED a daily stipend rate of up to $125 per day for grant funded activities as a result of the receipt of a $5,000 Javits Professional Development grant, $4,000 of which has been dedicated to stipends for teachers to attend trainings and the remaining $1,000 to be used for supplies.
- APPROVED advancing $475 from the General fund to the Title II-D’09 fund.
- APPROVED the payment of bills totaling $574,297.11.
- HEARD presentations from CHS Principal David Davis on new course offerings at CHS; Mrs. Jane Evans, school nurse who outlined the health education program in Carrollton schools; Kim Podratz, representing the Support Our Area Pool group who addressed the Board regarding the reopening of the Carroll County Veterans Memorial Swimming Pool, and Beth Taylor, who gave a PowerPoint presentation on Autism.
- HEARD Board Member Bonnie Little express her disappointment that something could not be worked out to reopen the swimming pool.
- LEARNED from Mrs. Little, the Board’s representative on the Buckeye Career Center Board, the Buckeye prom was scheduled for April 18 and an open house barbeque is planned for April 23 for incoming students from 6 to 8 p.m.
- HELD evaluations during an executive session with the following administrators: Phil Rutledge, Transportation Department; James Kennedy, Special Services; Mrs. Patricia Lamielle, Dellroy elementary; Edward Darnley, Carrollton elementary; Mrs. Christina Hull, Augusta elementary; Mrs. Tricia Green, Bell-Herron Middle School; David Davis, Carrollton High School, and Mrs. Kitty Weir, Food Services. |
