COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
With more than $124,000 in unpaid school meal debt currently in collections, former Columbia Board of Education candidate Ken Rice is calling on the community to help support families and find long-term solutions.
“There’s a little more than $124,000 in unpaid lunch bills that are in collections,” Rice said. “That means that families of students who don’t, who have a balance of a certain amount, are now in a collection turned over to a collection agency. And, you know, that is not something that the school board or anybody would like to have happen.”
Rice is encouraging people to donate to the Lunch for Learners fund, which is utilized to cover delinquent lunch accounts for families…
