The school principal is responsible for establishing and implementing a procedure for managing students who are without meal money. Schools may allow a student to go into a negative balance --with permission of the school principal. This is to "forgive" students who occasionally forget to bring money for meals. Catawba County Schools Child Nutrition employees cannot be responsible for lending or collecting money for charges nor contacting parents about charges.

RETURN CHECKS

 Insufficient fund checks are returned to the central office directly from the bank. Fund availability will be verified with the bank. a. If funds are available the check will be re-deposited and a letter sent home to the parent to notify them we have re-deposited the check and cannot accept any additional checks until after the returned check has cleared. b. If funds are not available the amount of the check will be taken out of the lunch account. The returned check will be sent home to the parent with a letter stating we will no longer be able to accept checks for the remainder of the school year. It is also our policy to not accept out of town checks or counter checks (checks without name, address or check number printed on the check). The check will be returned to the parent along with a letter stating why we did not accept the check.