The Triton School Board members were asked to approve the price of meals for the upcoming school year.
Superintendent Jeremy Riffle said the cost would hold steady at their current level. He told the board that several neighboring corporations had announced free meals for the coming school year and that the Triton Corporation had investigated that opportunity as well.
Riffle said that the grant for that free lunch program was based on the level of students already on free and reduced lunches at the particular school corporation and that Triton had looked into the program but if they had pursued it the corporation would have “been in the hole about $60,000”.
He said that within any particular school corporation, there could be one school that qualified for the program while another did not, based on assessed valuation and other financial criteria for the grant.
He told the board they would continue to look into those options but at the time it was not sustainable for Triton to participate.
