For the first time in years, the price of meals will increase at school. At its meeting April 6, the Board of Education approved increases in the price of breakfast and lunch for 2010-11.

WCPSS Child Nutrition Services requested meal price increases of 20 cents for breakfast and 25 cents for lunch. This will make the costs of elementary breakfast one dollar and the costs of middle and high school breakfast $1.25. The cost of elementary lunch will increase to $2 and the costs of middle and high school lunch $2.25.

This is the first change in any meal prices since 2004. This is the first time elementary breakfast prices have changed since 1995.

Child Nutrition Services is an enterprise fund and is required to maintain a balanced budget. Enterprise funds require the full costs of providing the goods or services be financed primarily through payments made by parents and federal funds thus removing the expenses from the tax rate.