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LISD Food Service Message Information on Student Meal Accounts
Lackland ISD wants each student to be successful and we believe
that a hungry student my not be performing up to their full
potential. Therefore, we provide all students who go through our
serving line with a meal even when they do not have sufficient funds
to pay for the meal. We understand that some parents don’t always
have sufficient funds in their children’s meal account for numerous
reasons. When this only involves a couple meals we do not worry too
much about it because our parents are great about resolving their
account balance within a few days. However, we are seeing a trend
of several families not resolving the payment for their students’
lunches in a timely manner. Since our Lackland ISD policy does not
provide a charge account for any student meals we are reminding
everyone of our school lunch policy and collection procedures.
Cost - Currently, a nutritious breakfast meal is provided at a cost of
$1.00 and a well-balanced lunch menu is provided at $2.00.
Additionally, families that qualify based on income criteria are
eligible for free or reduced cost for these meals. Each family is
encouraged to review the criteria for this program and complete an
application. Please contact our food service manager,
Mr. Marcus Rodriguez, in the cafeteria, through email
([email protected]) or phone (201-357-5056) for
assistance. Our Food Service web site, www.lacklandisd.net,
provides a “Child Nutrition” link to additional information.
Student Meal Accounts – We provide student meal accounts as a
service to allow parents to pre-pay for meals so their students do not
have to provide cash for each meal. The student lunch account may
be funded by prepayment with cash or checks locally, or through a
credit card charge made on-line. Parents have on-line access to the
account status, to monitor the daily balance, see what meals are
purchased, and other features to set reminders to help maintain a
sufficient balance.
Initial Notification of Insufficient Account Balance – LEVEL 1:
Students are informed when they go through the serving line (in a
respectful manner) when their meal account does not have
insufficient funds and are requested to remind their parents.
Additionally, we provide a notice to the campus principals and will
send a written reminder to the family of their need to resolve the
balance in their child’s meal account. For most cases this is all that
needs to be done.
February 15, 2013
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Admin Alley
Contents
Admin Alley 1
Upcoming Events 1
Food Service Message 2
Cyber Luncheon 3
Elementary Stuff 4
2nd
Grade Performance 5
FCCLA Strawberries 6
Middle School vs., Faculty 7
Science Math Academy 8
Elementary Yearbook 9
Random Shots 10
Upcoming Events:
Monday Feb. 18 Student Holiday / Staff Development
Tuesday Feb. 19 Engineer for a day @ La Villita Assembly Hall / Family Math Night at Lackland Elementary
Thursday Feb. 20 Chick Fil A Night
Ji l l D iGiampaolo & David A. Garcia – Editors
D ig iampaolo. j@ lack landisd. net
Written Notice – Level 2: We have a few parents that are taking advantage of our procedures and
have allowed their student meal account to go beyond the $20.00 negative balance limit with some
currently over $50.00 in un-approved debt. We are initiating actions to both collect for these debts
and implement use of an alternate meal for any student with a meal account of more than $20.00 in
arrears. Additionally, students will not be allowed to purchase items from the snack line while their
regular student meal account has a negative balance. This level of notice will be through a written
letter, signed by our Executive Director for Operations and Technology, requesting prompt payment
and providing guidance for clearing this un-approved debt. We will allow five business days for the
student account balance to be resolved before we move to the next level.
Alternate Meal - The alternate meal will consist of a cheese sandwich and milk at a cost of $.75. We
will provide this meal in a respectful manner. Once the amount of insufficient funds exceeds $20.00
we stop providing a regular meal and make a reduced meal available (cheese sandwich and milk at a
cost of $.75 per meal). Parents/Guardian/Students are still responsible for paying for this meal, when
provided.
Additional Collection Process – Level 3, Level 4, and Final: Individuals who do not resolve the
student’s meal account after a formal request to make payment will be moved to Level 3. At Level 3
we will provide a notice to the military member’s First Sergeant/Commander that a debt is owed to
Lackland ISD and the military member has not taken responsibility to pay the debt. Again, we will
allow 5 business days for the member to resolve the negative balance in their child’s meal account
before we move to level 4. At level 4, our Superintendent will provide our documented attempts to
collect on the student meal account debt to the Deputy Base Commander who also serves as the LISD
Base Liaison Officer. We allow 10 business days for the student lunch account to be restored to a
positive balance before we proceed to other legal proceeding to collect on an unapproved debt.
Points of contact: The following information is provided to help you resolve issues with your child’s
meal account.
1. You can contact our food services director (Mr. Marcus Rodriguez) during normal working
hours by calling (210-357-5056) or e-mail to [email protected] for further
information.
2. Send payment to:
Lackland ISD
C/O Parent/Guardian Collections
2460 Kenly Ave. Bldg 8265
San Antonio, Texas 78236
3. Make payment in person at the Jr/Sr High School campus kitchen (building 8240).
4. Send a payment (check) with your child to be turned in during the meal serving time.
5. Pay on-line using our “Lunch Money Now” service which provides for use of a credit card.
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Cyber Luncheon
Mayor’s Cyber Luncheon
The rookie Stacey Cyberpatriot team members, along with their mentors Capt. Pugh & Lt Porter and Mr. Keller, attended the 2nd annual Mayor’s Cyber
Cup Luncheon on Saturday, February 9th at the headquarters of Valero Energy. 47 of the 55 San Antonio area Cyberpatriot teams were in attendance.
The day started off with a college fair: UTSA, Texas A&M San Antonio, Texas State, & St. Mary’s were some of the area universities represented. The students
gathered information about the various programs and degree offerings in computer science, forensics, and cybersecurity. Speakers at the event included
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and Maj. General Suzanne Vautrinot, 24th Air Force Commander.
After the meal, the mayor announced the winner of the event-ITSA New Braunfels Team 2. They will compete as the only Texas team in the Open Division
of Cyberpatriot at the national finals in Maryland next month.
Mrs. Mihalko’s second grade class is learning about urban, suburban, and rural areas. This project is to make an urban
scene.
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Lackland ISD E-News
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First graders celebrated the 100th day of school on Friday, February 8. The students created projects at home using 100 things.
Pictured are students in Mrs. Allen’s class; Ava, Adam, and William are showing their projects. Also, Connor and Ryan are all smiles as they show
their creations.
Lackland ISD E-News 2nd Grade Performance Page 5 of 10 www.lacklandisd.net Feb. 15, 2013
Congratulations to the 2nd grade class for their presentation of “This Old Gingerbread
House” on Tuesday evening. Led By the fabulous Ms. Cara Coffey, the students belted
out numbers such as “This Old House Is Yummy”, “Take One Step” and “Sorry”. There
was a wonderful turnout of parents, teachers and family members who all enjoyed the
show. Thanks to all who helped make this performance possible!
Lackland ISD E-News FCCLA Strawberries Page 6 of 10
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Mrs. Duron’s FCCLA students prepared delicious Chocolate covered strawberries which they
presold and delivered around LISD on Valentine’s Day. Excellent Job!
Lackland ISD E-News Faculty vs. Middle School Page 7 of 10 www.lacklandisd.net Feb 15, 2013
Stacey Faculty takes on Middle School By: Meagan Fleming, Freshman
On Friday, February 8th, the Jr. High Student Council organized a faculty vs. students basketball game in the Stacey gym. It was four ten-minute quarters of Lackland ISD faculty against the four middle school basketball teams. Mrs. Horn was the coach for the faculty team. The final score, with a crazy outcome, was Faculty 48 to Students 44. The game had many laughs and was a lot of fun to watch. The Jr. High
Student Council raised over $170 at the game. Thanks to all who participated!
Lackland ISD E-News Science Math Academy Page 8 of 10
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FREE summer program for 11-15 years olds Science & Math Summer Academy
@St. Philip’s College Southwest Camp (800 Quintana Rd.)
July 8th-25th (Monday – Thursday) from 9 am-4 pm
To register: Download the registration form at
www.alamo.edu/spc/center-of-excellence-science or contact
Stacie Coy-Mahula at (210) 486-7119
open enrollment until March 31st. After March 31st, enrollment will
be based on availability.
Science & Math Summer Academy Offers:
Informal learning environments for science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM) activities in state of the art
science laboratories and computer labs.
Supervised fieldtrips and motivational talks with local STEM
professionals
Opportunity to learn about different careers & motivate youth
to pursue these high demand, high wage careers.
Lackland ISD E-News Elementary Yearbook Page 9 of 10 www.lacklandisd.net Feb. 15, 2013
2012-2013
Lackland Elementary Yearbook Make your child’s yearbook even more special by writing them a message to be printed in the yearbook!
10 words: $5.00 15 words: $8.00
20 words: $10.00 Please PRINT message clearly on the lines provided. Your message will appear in the yearbook exactly as you write it. All messages must be approved by the yearbook editor.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ ______________________ _________________________ Child’s Name Grade Teacher Return this paper along with your amount to the front office no later than Friday, March 8, 2013. Due to yearbook deadlines, no entries will be accepted after this date.
2012-2013 Lackland Elementary Yearbook is now on sale!!!
Reserve your copy today in the front office for only $22.
Quick…limited quantity, so get one soon!
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