The School Lunch and Breakfast Program and Personnel

The Ironton City Board of Education gives its support to the Federal Lunch and Breakfast Programs in the Ironton City Schools. The Assistant Superintendent shall be in the complete charge of the School Lunch and Breakfast Program. The Program shall be operated in a healthful, efficient, and business-like manner which will enable it to pass rigid health, sanitation, and audit inspections. The Program shall also be operated and conducted in full compliance with Federal and State Laws and Regulations; the Health Department; the Ironton City Board Policies; and the Administrative Rules and Regulations.

The Ironton City Board of Education shall set the prices so school lunches and milk; and the Cafeteria Supervisor will have the authority to set the prices of a la carte items. The Board will also make provisions for providing free (or at reduced prices) school lunches and/or other food items for those who qualify and meet the guidelines for the same. It is the philosophy of the Ironton City Board of Education that the Lunchroom be a nonprofit, yet solvent operation.

WORKING OPERATIONS

The Assistant Superintendent shall supervise and be in charge of the School Lunch and Breakfast Program and all lunchroom-cafeteria personnel in the Ironton City School District. The Cafeteria Supervisor shall be under the immediate directions of the respective school principal and under the overall supervision of the Assistant Superintendent. The Cafeteria Supervisor will be in direct charge of the cooks and helpers in the lunchroom, and of the day-to-day operations of the Lunch and Breakfast Program. The truck driver who delivers the prepared food to the primary schools shall be under the direct charge and supervision of the Cafeteria Supervisor, who shall make such rules and regulations for this position as he/she deems appropriate and necessary. The Assistant Supervisor, shall, after consultation with the Superintendent of Schools, and in cooperation with the school principal and Cafeteria Supervisor, set the work hours, schedules, and working conditions for all lunchroom for all lunchroom-cafeteria employees in the Ironton City Schools. The Cafeteria Supervisor shall work a 40-hour week, 8 hour day, with thirty (30) minutes off for lunch each day.

All school calendar (nine months) lunchroom-cafeteria workers shall work a total of 193 days, including authorized legal holidays. The nine-months lunchroom-cafeteria workers will not be required to work on emergency "ice and/or snow days" (5 or less) when school is not in session. However, if these days goes beyond five (5), and have to be made up, lunchroom employees must work on these make-up days. If, however, the Ironton City School Board of Education should require that all (ice and/or snow)

Days be made up, the same shall be done.

9-16-66
Rev. 12-16-70
Rev. 10-13-80
Rev. 07-13-92

LUNCHROOM PERSONNEL

The lunchroom personnel shall consist of a Cafeteria Supervisor, Head Cooks, Driver(s), Helpers, and other such personnel as are necessary to get the job done efficiently and effectively, and as recommended by the Assistant Superintendent to the Superintendent, and he to the Board. Lunchroom personnel are to be those with good personal work habits, in good health, and imbued with a sense of cleanliness and neatness.

PURCHASING FOR LUNCHROOMS

The Cafeteria Supervisor shall have the authority to purchase food and groceries for the Lunch and/or Breakfast Program. This authority includes the right to price, and pick and choose such food and other necessary goods and items as are needed to operate an exemplary program. The procedures for ordering, receiving, etc. shall be established by the Assistant Superintendent, as approved by the Ironton City Superintendent of Schools.

PROBATION

All lunchroom personnel shall be employed on a 90-day probationary basis and shall be eligible for continued employment upon satisfactory completion of this probationary period. Continued employment shall be at the discretion of this Board and Superintendent, in accordance with State laws on same.

SICK LEAVE (AND OTHER)

Each school calendar, 193-day, Lunchroom Worker shall be granted sick leave and other leave in accordance with Ohio Laws governing same, and in accordance with Ironton Board of Education Policies:

4151.1-2 and 4151.7 and the negotiated contract.

TIME AND ONE-HALF PAY FOR THE COOKS

As recommended by the Superintendent, all part-time cooks - when required to work after regular hours for outside organizations renting school facilities, are to be paid time and one-half for extra hours so worked.

Rev. 07-13-92
Rev. 07-01-96

Administrative Rules and Regulations 3546

The School Lunch Program

1. The entire School Lunch Program shall be administered and supervised by the Assistant Superintendent in cooperation with the School Principal and the Cafeteria Supervisor, who will be in charge of the program's day-to-day operations.

2. The Assistant Superintendent will be responsible for calling necessary substitute personnel, or have same to be done.

3. All students and adults working under this program shall have current "Food Handler's Permits" issued at and by the local health department.

4. Students may work in the kitchens and dining rooms only by written parental consent. Consent slips must remain on file.

5. Students shall not be paid money wages, but shall be given their lunches for their work.

6. Students are not to be given dangerous or hazardous jobs in connection with their work in the Lunchroom Program.

7. All kitchen and dining room equipment, as well as these rooms, must be kept clean and sanitary.

8. Hair nets and aprons or uniforms must be worn by workers in this Program.

9. Plastic gloves must be worn by personnel when dispensing unwrapped food by hand.

10. Mechanical dishwashers must be checked at regular intervals for proper efficiency. Rinse water must be 180 degrees, and/or as required by the Health Department.

11. No food is to be taken from the school premises by anyone for anyone.

12. Lunches for students will be provided free or at reduced cost when the students prove inability to pay, according to set guidelines.

13. All straws must be individually wrapped or dispensed from mechanical dispensers. Paper napkins, if students get their own, must be dispensed through a dispenser.

14. Silverware shall be placed in a "handles up" manner only, from containers or dispensers.

15. No open dishes for dispensing sugar, vinegar, butter, etc, shall be used on the tables from which to obtain these foods. Rather, closed containers for the liquids, and wrapped portions of sugar should and must be used. Similarly, proper dispensers which will pass health inspection shall be used for all like items.

16. Food and supplies for the Lunch Program shall be purchased in wholesale lots at wholesale prices on the basis of "most of/and best quality for the least money".

17. Accurate and up-to-date records must be kept on all aspects of the School Lunch Program by the person so designated. All monies collected shall be accounted for.

18. The sale of soda pop, candy, and the like is discouraged before or during the lunch hour, since proper nutrition standards prescribe milk and a balanced type "A" lunch.

19. The Lunch Program shall provide a setting in which students should eat properly, orderly, and mannerly. The good Program will include this type training.

20. Inventories must be taken at the close of every calendar month, of Federal Government surplus food, as well as school-purchased food.

21. All foods which are perishable shall be stored or refrigerated in compliance with government regulations on such items that these foods may remain safe for use and that there is no, or minimum loss because of spoilage.

22. Certain items of food such as meal, beans, and the like must be kept in metal containers on order to protect them from mice, bugs, and other pests. Storage rooms for these foods must be kept clean and orderly at all times, with "first in - first used" policy being maintained. Dates on cans will aid in carrying out this policy.

DUTIES OF THE CAFETERIA SUPERVISOR

Although the duties of this position are varied and numerous, the Cafeteria Supervisor has the responsibility primarily for the lunchroom planning; securing food and supplies; food preparation; personnel supervision; maintaining inventories; records keeping; and filing reports of the lunchroom-cafeteria operations. The following specific duties are not all-inclusive, but they will establish a pattern for the overall job to be done:

1. Plan and make the school menus.

2. Assign cooks' and helpers' duties under supervision of the Assistant Superintendent, and see that these duties are carried out as assigned.

3. Supervise, and direct the head cooks.

4. See to it that foods are properly stored and distributed.

5. Conduct monthly inventories for food and supplies.

6. Get prices, review costs; and purchase food and supplies.

7. Make reports to proper authorities, as necessary and/or required.

8. Visit periodically, the various lunchrooms programs, offer advice, and give suggestions.

9. Keep a close check on and report on commodities, as required.

10. Establish procedures for prepared foods and appropriate supplies to be sent from the Ironton Middle School to the two primary buildings.

11. Review lunchroom operations; observe procedures; and confer with the staff, the School Principal, and the Assistant Superintendent.

12. Do any other reasonable task or job attendant to the position and/or that is necessary to provide Ironton student with a first-class lunchroom.