School lunch prices may be going up for Plymouth students.
Gloria Burnam, director of food services at the Plymouth Community School Corporation, appeared before the school board Tuesday. She said the corporation is required to raise prices next school year, based on state calculations. “As in the past, we don’t like to raise prices,” she said. “So I’ve submitted an exemption [request] but have not heard back from that. They had told me two weeks. It’s the third week now; we still haven’t heard.”
Burnam says she has a plan in place, in case the corporation does not get an exemption, “I did another calculation, putting in prices to see what we would have to do to get that price up, as to how much we have to raise. And it came out to, K through 6, we would have to raise five cents, so that would be $1.90 for students. Seventh through twelfth grades, we would have to raise 10 cents, and that would be $2.05.”
The school board voted to approve the price increases, which would only take effect if the exemption is not granted.
