Santa Cruz City Schools trustees will be voting tonight on whether to approve a new school lunch program. The proposed program will feature food prepared from scratch from locally grown produce. The decision will come earlier than planned because a transition period, during which lunches were provided by Revolution Foods of Oakland, was found to have been misbudgeted. Together with the fact that fewer students were taking advantage of the lunch program and that the $3 cost per meal exceeded government reimbursement rates, the city is pushing to launch its own lunch program ahead of schedule. In the new program, most of the food will be prepared at Harbor High under the supervision of Executive Chef Jamie Smith. From there it will be transported to other schools, to complement locally prepared salads and other dishes. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
School Trustees to Vote on School Lunch Plan
Chef Jamie Smith will be more directly involved with preparing school lunches now. Photo by Pete Shea.
