Lunch prices in Waterford to hold steady in 2012-13

The Waterford Schools Board of Education voted Thursday, Aug. 2 to approve cafeteria meal prices for the 2012-13 school year, with no increase in prices recommended.

Elementary school students will pay $2.50 for lunch during the next school year, while secondary students will pay $2.75 and adults will pay $3.50.

Elementary and secondary students will pay $1.50 for breakfast, while adults will pay $2.

The 2012-13 school year will mark the fourth consecutive year that Waterford Schools has not raised school meal prices.

In addition, the school board approved a 3-year, $295,000 contract with Country Pride for milk and juice products, as well as a 3-year contract with Great Lakes for bread and grain products for the district’s breakfast, lunch and summer feeding programs.

In 2008, the district approved a 25-cent increase in lunch prices for the 2008-09 school year to offset increases in the cost of food, supplies and transportation.

The district’s Food and Nutrition Department doesn’t receive general fund support.