Board revisits line painter, lunch prices

by Mary Le Arneal
Published 7/31/24

At a special meeting held July 22 the North Bend Central Board of Education passed one item that it had previously voted down and another that was tabled at the last meeting.

At the July 8 meeting Roy Wright had asked the board to rent a Turf Tank to paint the lines on the football and other sports fields at the cost of $11,000 for one year. The board vetoed the purchase. The item was brought up again at this meeting with the company offering trial use of a machine for the football season for $6,000 and a discount on the paint. Contributions were procured from the youth tackle football program, Optimist Club and Booster Club. The board voted to allow the trial period to test the Turf Tank.

The board set prices for meals offered by the school, which it had tabled at the previous meeting awaiting further details. First through fifth grade lunch will cost $3.20. For grades six through 12, lunch will be $3.45. Cost for all students’ breakfast will be $2.20. Extra food items will be $2 and 50¢ for additional milk cartons. Adult breakfast remain the same at $2.75 and adult lunch is $4.80.

Food service worker Angela Tauber explained to the board how the school nurse evaluates meals for diabetic or other students with special dietary needs and regulates any needed medications.

It was noted that the Free and Reduced Lunch applications are now online. Tauber said that the school receives $4.42 in state funding for each lunch in the program.

The board looked at the possibility of having a School Resource Office at the schools as they did a few years ago. The program was stopped because of personnel shortage in the sheriff’s department. Sheriff Dustin Weitzel approached the school about restarting the program.

Superintendent Patrick Ningen will talk to Weitzel and the superintendent at Logan View schools about sharing, as the schools did before, or having an SRO just at NBC.

The board took time to discuss its goals and how they need to be updated occasionally. It was noted that the update of the stadium concession stand and restrooms was not on the list. Ningen said that the architect doing the facilities assessment had it on his list which they have not received back yet.

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