BOE told to make cafeteria solvent

By MARY R. SMITH

news@vindy.com

MCDONALD

The McDonald State Finance and Planning Commission has instructed the village school district to come up with a plan to make the Roosevelt Elementary School cafeteria solvent.

At it’s meeting Monday, the commission declined to approve an increase in school lunch prices from $2 to $2.50 approved by the school board earlier this month pending receipt of a proposal from the district solving all of the cafeteria’s financial problems. The cafeteria will end this school year $44,000 in the red. It ended last year with a $28,000 deficit.

The district has been working on the problem with a representative from the Ohio Department of Education, schools treasurer Brian Stidham said.

The cafeteria was also subject to layoffs under the district’s recovery plan. A six-hour cafeteria worker was cut to three hours. There are only two cafeteria workers. The other works seven hours a day. Two part-time cafeteria monitors also have been laid off.

The school board has learned it’s performance audit will be released June 8. A state auditor’s financial audit was reviewed at a conference Friday with board members and staff from the state auditor.

The board will decide it’s response to the audit at an executive session Wednesday.

No public release date has yet been set for the audit.