When requesting a refund, please print out the following application. Fill in application and a parent or guardians' signature is required before scanning or emailing it to Jessica Lehr at: jlehr@dasd.org
No student requesting a meal will be denied a full reimbursable meal unless the student’s parent or guardian has provided written permission to withhold a school meal.
Middle School and High School students are permitted to charge a la carte or other non- program foods unless they have a negative account balance in excess of $10 or a parent’s written consent to deny a student charging a la carte items.
Parents or guardians are required to cover negative balances incurred by their
Students with negative account balances or unable to pay for a meal will not be publicly identified or stigmatized.
High School student balances will be handled in the same manner as all other student obligations and may result in the loss of certain privileges.
High School Seniors - All outstanding food service account balances after graduation will be submitted to a third party collection agency.
Students with negative account balances or unable to pay for a meal will not be required to discard a reimbursable meal after it has been served.
School Meal Account Collections
Communication of student account balances:
Elementary and Middle School communications will be made to the parent or guardian and not to the student directly.
High School communications will be made to both parents and All communications with students will be done individually and discreetly.
Automated messages will be sent out weekly to any parent or guardian with a child who has a negative food service account balance.
Food Service staff will contact parent or guardian by telephone once their child’s negative balance exceeds $15.
Food Service staff will send a letter to the parent or guardian once a student’s balance exceeds $25.
The School Principal or designee will contact the parent or guardian by telephone once a student’s balance exceeds $30.
The Business Office will send a certified letter to the parent or guardian once a student’s balance exceeds $50.
If the District does not receive payment or if the parent/guardian does not contact the District in response to the certified letter within the specified timeframe the account will be considered delinquent debt and will be turned over to a third party collection Parents or guardians will be responsible for all collection fees, penalties or fines.
Uncollectable delinquent debt shall be considered bad debt and non-federal funding sources must repay the Food Service Fund for the total amount of the uncollectable Delinquent school meal debt shall not be classified as bad debt for write off purposes until after reasonable steps have been taken to collect such delinquent school meal debt.
