Delaware Community School Corporation

Lunch Charging Procedures

Meal accounts for students should be consistently funded throughout the school year to avoid students needing to charge for a meal. However, the Board recognizes that an occasional emergency may make it necessary to charge for a meal. Families needing assistance to apply for free or reduced lunch should contact the Delaware Community School Corporation’s Director of Food Service. No a la carte items may be charged. The Corporation’s meal charging procedure is as follows:

• Each time a student charges for a meal, parents/guardians will be notified via the Corporation’s point of sale software;

• After accruing $10.00 in meal charges, school cafeteria managers will make two attempts to call parents/guardians to remind them that their student’s meal account balance is in the negative and that it needs to be paid immediately;

• Building principals will attempt to call parents/guardians to reiterate the school cafeteria manager’s message if parents/guardians have been unresponsive to the manager’s two calls; and

• After accruing $25.00 in meal charges, students’ meal privileges shall be stopped unless otherwise approved by the superintendent;

• Unpaid meal balances may be turned over to collections after thirty (30) days.

Families may deposit money into students’ meal accounts using a credit or debit card at www.family.titank12.com. Students may also pay with cash at the register as they go through the meal line. When students pay with cash, the Corporation will not make change; all cash will be deposited into students’ meal accounts.

The superintendent may develop administrative guidelines to implement this policy.

Delaware Community School Corporation

Adopted: 8/15/2022

Revised: