2008 Woodie Awards
District food service contract expires; cafeteria could close for summer semesters
By Will Underhill
Issue date: 4/18/08 Section: News
Originally published: 4/17/08 at 6:19 PM CSTLast update: 5/9/08 at 5:23 PM CST
"The idea was that whoever gets the proposal will have the opportunity to do any refurbishing, painting and minor repairs so that come fall they are operational," Billimek said.
However, the closing of the cafeteria means that no food service will be provided to students over the summer.
"SAC events with respect to students and faculty will have to go to local restaurants," Billimek said.
Other events on campus over the summer, such as University of Texas at San Antonio's Pre-freshman Engineering Program or PREP, will have to find alternative solutions to feed students taking part in the program.
"I've had correspondence with the PREP program at UTSA, and food service will be provided by outside sources if food services are not available on campus," Billimek said. "It wasn't going to be an issue, but they needed to know. As long as they knew ahead of time they could make appropriate arrangements."
In the past, the program was able to provide lunch free of charge through the cafeteria by utilizing a grant from the state government that provided money for student lunches for economically disadvantaged children, similar to the free lunch program available in K-12 schools.
"We work with Texas Health and Human Services that provide a grant for free lunches for students," Rudy Reyna, coordinator for the program, said. "More than 50 percent of the kids in the program come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, so our program qualified for the free lunch program."
At the moment, the program is looking into catering services and if they are able to pay for them using the grant money.
However, the closing of the cafeteria means that no food service will be provided to students over the summer.
"SAC events with respect to students and faculty will have to go to local restaurants," Billimek said.
Other events on campus over the summer, such as University of Texas at San Antonio's Pre-freshman Engineering Program or PREP, will have to find alternative solutions to feed students taking part in the program.
"I've had correspondence with the PREP program at UTSA, and food service will be provided by outside sources if food services are not available on campus," Billimek said. "It wasn't going to be an issue, but they needed to know. As long as they knew ahead of time they could make appropriate arrangements."
In the past, the program was able to provide lunch free of charge through the cafeteria by utilizing a grant from the state government that provided money for student lunches for economically disadvantaged children, similar to the free lunch program available in K-12 schools.
"We work with Texas Health and Human Services that provide a grant for free lunches for students," Rudy Reyna, coordinator for the program, said. "More than 50 percent of the kids in the program come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, so our program qualified for the free lunch program."
At the moment, the program is looking into catering services and if they are able to pay for them using the grant money.
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