New Millennium Building Systems of Fallon presented a check to Lahontan Elementary School for more than $11,000. From left are Heidi McAlexander, New Millennium; Jen Buckmaster, LES teacher; Kimi Melendy, LES principal; and Tiffany Morris, New Millennium.
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At the Churchill County school board meeting Feb. 8, the board heard an update from the school food service provider, accepted a donation, reviewed the district’s audit results and approved a modified calendar for next year.
Chartwells Director Greg Sanders presented the results from a survey distributed to students and parents in November 2022. Breakfast was rated as good or excellent by 76 percent of elementary students. Secondary students gave high marks for line speed, healthy choices and variety of food items.
The top five things important to parents were trying new foods, adding more fruits and vegetables, using local farm fresh foods, including fewer processed foods and foods that contain less sugar.
Students requested waffles, a pancake with sausage on a stick, breakfast burritos, strawberry bagels, bacon and muffins. Chartwells incorporated these items into the February menus. Model Dairy has made a special batch of strawberry-flavored skim milk briefly available to the students during February to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Breakfast and lunch are free for all students. The breakfast and lunch menus for all schools can be found at https://churchillk12.nutrislice.com/menus-eulaor by downloading the Nutrislice app.
The board approved an $11,654 donation to Lahontan Elementary School from New Millennium Building Systems of Fallon. The funds will be used to purchase shade covers for the school’s atriums and reading kits to aid struggling readers.
Kelli Jones of HintonBurdick gave the auditor’s report for the year ending June 30, 2022 via Zoom. In compliance with state law, the district conformed to all significant statutory constraints on its financial administration during the year.
The board approved a modified four-day calendar for the 2023-24 school year following inputs from staff and student families collected through a ThoughtExchange survey. A top request was to make the Friday schedule more consistent. Some dates were moved in order to ensure that all second and fourth Fridays are off for students.
No changes were made to the spring break dates of April 1-5 or the winter break dates of Dec. 18-29. The first and last days of school also remained as Aug. 14 and May 24.