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School lunch prices on the rise Students are going to pay a little more for lunch when school begins as the Clay County Board of Education approved higher prices for meals at the cafeteria. "We're going to have to raise the prices for the first time in, I think, six or seven years," Superintendent Scott Penland said at board meeting June 23. Penland said prices previously set at $1.75 would be increased to $2.00, bringing Clay County Schools in line with other schools in the mountain region. Milk prices have not changed, Penland said. He said that Clay County tries to stick to one price for around seven years at a time, rather than increase prices five cents or so every year. The board said that prices were still relatively cheap and noted that free breakfast for kindergartners, a state initiative, had been done away with for the upcoming school year. Looking at facility updates, Penland said that the board was looking forward to the land transfer tax vote scheduled for August 29. He said that the senate had passed a bill to resend their right to vote. He said he expressed his displeasure to both senators John Snow and Roger West. "I feel strongly that the citizens of this community need to make that decision, not the people in Raleigh," he said. Penland said he was planning to have architects return in July to give an overview of plans to prepare for what might happen. In a meeting earlier in the day, several of the board members discussed the problem of finding an extra space to place an elementary school teacher. "We don't have the space to do what we need to try and help these kids," Penland said. "I guess we could drag another trailer on campus." "Before long we're going to have to drag a cafeteria trailer on campus," another school board member responded. "That thing's busted." Penland said the reason the schools did struggle with space issues in earlier years was because the kindergarden and preschool had yet to be formed and state regulations on class size were not yet in place. "We're pitting money against kids," board member Darryl Mc- Clure said. "...We gotta have school." When it came time to review the vocational rehabilitation agreement, Penland said that the state's total budget was $108,000, of which Clay County was responsible for $7,300. The state, he said, was funding nearly 80 percent of the program. The commissioners approved the funding for the agreement, which helps special needs kids Chairman Charles Penland said.
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