Dear Northeast Dubois Families,

This school year, Northeast Dubois school cafeterias are meeting tough federal nutrition
standards for school meals, ensuring that meals are healthy and well balanced and provide
students all the nutrition they need to succeed at school. Now is a great time to encourage your
kids to choose school lunch and breakfast!
School meals offer milk, fruits and vegetables, proteins and grains, and they must meet strict
limits on saturated fat and portion size. School lunches will meet additional standards requiring:

- Age appropriate calorie limits
- Larger servings of fruits and vegetables (students must take
at least one serving of produce)
- A wide variety of vegetables including dark green and
red /orange vegetables and legumes
- Fat free or 1% milk (flavored milk must be fat free)
- Whole grains
- And less sodium

School meals are a huge convenience for busy families! We will again offer breakfast and lunch
for all students.
We encourage all households to carefully look over the forms attached to this letter. If your
household qualifies for free or reduced meals, that may qualify the student/students for textbook
assistance also. Please fill out the forms and return as soon as possible.
In accordance with state guidelines, the Northeast Dubois School Board has adopted a Written
Charging Policy for our schools and can be viewed on our School’s website.
We look forward to welcoming your children to the cafeteria this year!

Thank you,

Joyce Hulsman
Food Service Director
Northeast Dubois School Corporation

For all other FNS nutrition assistance programs, state or local agencies, and their subrecipients, must post the following Nondiscrimination Statement:

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USDA-OASCR%20P-Complaint-Form-0508-0002-508-11-28-17Fax2Mail.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. mail:
   U.S. Department of Agriculture
   Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
   1400 Independence Avenue, SW
   Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. fax:
   (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
3. email:
   Program.Intake@usda.gov

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

Free/Reduced Parent Letter

Free/Reduced Application

A Family Guide to School Nutrition

Northeast Dubois School Corporation
Procedure for Student Lunch/Meal Accounts

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) requires school food authorities to establish written
administrative guidelines and procedures for meal charges. Northeast Dubois School Corporation
will adhere to the following meal charge procedure.
 All cafeteria purchases are to be prepaid before meal service begins with the exemption
of the high school where meals may be purchased at point of sale.
 A student may charge up to 5 meals maximum (one charge per meal) as long as they
establish and maintain a good credit history of making payments on their food service
accounts.
 A staff member may charge up to $10.00 as long as they establish and maintain a good
credit history of making payments on their food service accounts.
 A student who has charged a meal may not charge or purchase "a la carte" item(s),
including extra main entrees.
 If a student repeatedly comes to school with no lunch and no money, food service
employees must report this to the building principal as this may be a sign of abuse or
neglect and the proper authorities should be contacted.
 Schools may deny a meal to a student who pays reduced or full price and who does not
provide the required payment for that meal. However if the student who pays reduced or
full price has enough money in hand for a meal that day, they will not be denied a meal.
OR
o Schools will provide an alternative meal of peanut butter & jelly & milk to a
student who pays reduced or full price and who does not provide the required
payment for that meal.

 The food service manager or other school personnel will coordinate communications with
the parent(s)/guardian(s) to resolve the matter of unpaid charges.
 If food services staff suspects that a student may be abusing this policy, written notice
will be provided to the parent(s)/guardian(s) that if he/she continues to abuse this policy,
the privilege of charging meals will be refused.
OR
o If food services staff suspects that a student may be abusing this policy, written
notice will be provided to the parent(s)/guardian(s) that if he/she continues to
abuse this policy, the privileges of an alternative meal will be refused.

 The school secretary will notify parents every weekly of any outstanding negative balance
in the student’s lunch/meal account. The food service manager will also send home
emails each week to parents of students who carry negative balances.
 All accounts must be settled at the end of school. Letters will be sent home approximately
5 days before the end of school to students who have any negative balances. Negative
balances of more than $10.00 not paid in full 1 day prior to the end of school will force
the Corporation to take action to collect unpaid funds by means of collection agencies,
small claims court, or any other legal method deemed necessary by the Corporation.
 Students who graduate or withdraw from the corporation and have $2.00 or more left in
their lunch/meal food service account will be notified by mail by food services at the end
of school and given the option to transfer the funds to another student or to receive a
refund. Students who graduate or withdraw from the corporation and have less than $2.00
will not receive a direct notification by mail, but the household can contact Northeast
Dubois School Corporation to receive a refund. If no response is received within 5 days
the student’s lunch/meal account will close and the funds will no longer be available.
Unclaimed remaining balances will be transferred to the Cafeteria fund.

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