Food Service

Riverdale School District Breakfast, Mid-Morning Snack, and Lunch Menu

***Breakfast is served at the High School, Middle School, and Elementary School***
**Menu subject to change**

School Meal Application Form

Dear Parent,

I’m writing to let you know how important it is to fill out the school meal application form.

Some parents are concerned about listing income amounts and social security numbers on the application.  Any personal information you provide will not be shared:

• Free and reduced price meal applications are confidential. Your information will only be used to determine your child’s eligibility for the school meal programs.  We cannot share your information without your written permission.
• Students who receive free and reduced price meals are not identified. No other students, staff, or teachers need to know who is receiving free or reduced meals and who has paid.

There are two important reasons to fill out this form:

• If your child qualifies for free or reduced price lunches, he or she qualifies for free or reduced price breakfasts at school as well. We want to help your child eat healthy meals at school.
• Your child may receive other school benefits.  The number of applications that are returned and approved can affect how much funding our school gets to help students meet academic benchmarks, including materials like books and computers.

Please take a few minutes to fill out this form so that your child may qualify for these important benefits.

Sincerely,

Jeff Campbell
District Administrator
Riverdale School

SCHOOL MEAL ACCOUNT CHARGES AND COLLECTIONS

Notifications

Every effort will be made by the School District of Riverdale to keep parent(s)/guardian(s) informed regarding their family meal account. However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the parent(s)/guardian(s) to maintain a positive balance in their account so that the district can provide meals to their children.

1. Skyward Family Access: Through this online program parents have the ability to track activity/usage and view their balance.
2. An automated courtesy phone call will be made on Tuesday evenings to families with a balance of $10.00 or less.
3. An automated courtesy phone call will be made on Tuesday evenings for all negative accounts.
4. When a family meal account becomes negative a letter will be mailed to the parent(s)/guardian(s) letting them know that they need to deposit funds into their account so that their children can continue to participate in the meal program.  If a payment is not made, parents will need to provide meals from home for their child(ren) until sufficient funds are deposited in their account to bring it back to a positive balance.  If a meal is not sent with the child(ren) to school an alternative lunch will be provided for elementary and junior high students up to five days at the cost of $0.40 per meal.  However, high school students will not be provided an alternative lunch.  If no payment or meals from home are provided for the student, the Department of Social Services may be contacted.

A student may pay for a daily meal, even if their account is negative.

Students eligible for free meals will not be denied a meal because of a negative account balance, however they will not be allowed to charge a la carte items, including milk to have with a cold lunch.

Uncollected balances

5. The school board authorizes administrators to collect food service charges that are 60 days delinquent through legal means including but not limited to small claims court or use of a collection agency. Costs for collection may be added to the family account.

A student may not participate in the promotion or graduation ceremony if his/her meal account has a negative balance.

Refunds

6. When a family no longer has children attending school or moves out of the district the family may request reimbursement of any balance over $3.00 in the family account. Funds for families with students continuing the following school year will remain in the family account for the next year.