Littleton Schools Raise Lunch Prices, Accept $40,000 Track Gift at June Meeting

LITTLETON -- June 2, 2022, Littleton School Committee unanimously raises meal prices, accepts $40,000 gift, and holds off on bullying policy at its final meeting of the school year. The board voted June 2 to increase the standard student lunch price from $2.85 to $3.31 and the adult meal price to $5.00 for fiscal year 2023, the first adjustment in roughly seven or eight years, while authorizing the superintendent to approve annual increases of up to 4 percent going forward. Business Manager Steve Markfor explained the hike is required to meet federal reimbursement-rate minimums. The committee also unanimously accepted a $40,000 restricted gift from the Littleton Road Race Track Organization and approved first readings of four revised district policies consolidating non-discrimination and harassment language under a single policy AC. A bullying-prevention policy revision was deliberately withheld from the first reading after public commenter Erica Pogorny, a former committee member, described her child's years of unaddressed bullying in Littleton schools and said, "We need to find that 0.1 percent, we need to make sure every child feels safe at school." Committee Chair Justin Gold pledged the bullying policy would be a primary agenda item in the fall, not a late-meeting procedural step.