District Services
Nutrition
The Union Community School District promotes healthy students by supporting good nutrition and wellness as a part of the total learning environment, where students learn and participate in positive dietary and lifestyle practices. We support and promote proper dietary habits contributing to students' health status and academic performance and endeavor to meet and exceed nutrition standards set by the local, state, and federal government. We consider nutritional integrity, variety, appeal, taste, and safety to ensure high-quality meals.
Meals served through our lunch and breakfast programs will:
- Be appealing and attractive to children.
- Be served in clean and pleasant settings.
- Meet, at a minimum, nutrition requirements established by law.
- Offer a variety of fruits and vegetables.
- Serve only low-fat (1%) and fat-free milk and nutritionally acceptable alternatives.
- Increase servings of whole grain.
A Breakfast program is available to students in each building. Students who ride buses to school will also have time to take advantage of the breakfast program before the school day starts.
Students have use of a meal account. Students will use the same ticket or student number for both breakfast and lunch. Parents may send any amount of money to the school office to be credited to their student’s account. Parents also have the option to be able to complete online payments using electronic check or credit/debit cards through JMC. You can access this throught the JMC Parent Portal under lunch and then by clicking on “JMC Online Deposit (Student Account).”
Parents are notified by note and/or e-mail when their student’s account shows a low balance. School Policy is when the balance reaches $-10.00 a student may charge no more than one (1) meal to this account. When account reaches this limit, a student shall not be allowed to charge further meals or ala carte items until the negative account balance is paid. Students may not charge ala carte items if their account has a $0.00 or negative balance.
Applications for free and reduced price meals are available at any of the school offices throughout the school year, at registration, as well as on the Union Community Schools website.
Meal tickets are the school district’s property. A $3.00 fee is charged to the students to replace a lost or damaged ticket.
Current Lunch Menus
Meal Prices
| Elementary | MS | HS | Adult | |
| Breakfast | $1.65 | $1.65 | $1.65 | $2.65 |
| Lunch | $2.70 | $3.00 | $3.05 | $3.65 |
| 2nd Meal | NA | $3.65 | $3.65 | $3.65 |
| Milk | $0.50 | $0.50 | $0.50 | |
| Reduced Breakfast | $0.30 | $0.30 | $0.30 | NA |
| Reduced Lunch | $0.40 | $0.40 | $0.40 | NA |
Diet Modification Request
Below is the link for the diet modification request form if your student has dietary restrictions that need to be made known. If you have any questions you can contact Tina Hanna, Union Community School's Food Service Director at t_hanna@union.k12.ia.us
Diet Modification Request Form
Wellness Policy
The board promotes healthy students by supporting wellness, good nutrition and regular physical activity as par of the total learning environment. The school district supports a healthy environment where students learn through the support and promotion of good nutrition and physical activity, schools contribute to the basic health status of students. Improved health optimized student performance potential.
The wellness committee members include: Christina Hanna, Savannah Jensen, Cara Glenn, Terri Donlea, Trisha Beckening, Erin Whittenburg, Todd Parker, Mark Albertsen, Jennifer O'Connor, Andrea Werner, Jim Cayton, Christina Petersen, Stephanie Hookham, Patty Wandschneider and Dawn Stoakes.
Summer Meal Programs
More information about the summer meal programs is coming. Check back soon.
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Free and Reduced Lunch Information and Forms
- Free & Reduced Income Eligibility Guidelines
- 2018-19 Information letter for Free and Reduced
- 2018-19 Instructions for Free and Reduced
- 2018-2019 Iowa Free and Reduced Application
For more information about the Nutrition Department at UCSD please contact:
