BLOOMINGTON - The rising cost of food and milk - and the gas to deliver it - may lead to increases in school lunch fees. The District 87 Board of Education, after hearing a report Wednesday, will vote on that at its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. June 11 in the Educational Services Center.

The proposed price increases are: grade school student breakfast, $1.30 to $1.40: junior high and high school breakfast, $1.35 to $1.50; adult breakfast, $1.60 to $1.75. Extra milk at the secondary level would rise from 50 cents to 60 cents, but stay 50 cents at the elementary level for both breakfast and lunch.

For grade school lunch, the price would rise from $1.65 to $1.75; junior high and high school lunch, from $2.10 to $2.25; adults at grade school, $2.65 to $2.75; and adults at secondary level, $2.75 to $2.90.

"Food service should pay for itself," David Wood, the district's chief financial and legal officer, told the board. The price increase would help the cafeteria operation break even so money is not diverted from use for education.

"Bread and milk is going up in double digits," said Wood before the meeting. District 87 is working with vendors to alter contracts so food prices are separate from fuel costs, making the actual cost of food more accurately reflected in the contracts.

Meal prices aren't the only increase on the horizon: In-district driver education is also proposed to increase from $200 to $250, he said.

However, the cost of athletic passes and student fees other than driver education and meals would stay the same.

The board also heard proposals for changing the school handbook to tightening policies on electronic devices to address legal and privacy concerns, especially eavesdropping.

The proposed revisions forbid student use or display of cell phones or any other messaging or recording devices on school property. That includes any illegal eavesdropping or recording of pictures or sound without the knowledge and express permission of all parties recorded. Such items have to be turned off during school hours and be stored in a backpack, including at lunch.

Such items can be confiscated by school officials to be returned to a parent or guardian with no liability assumed by the district for the confiscated item.

The board will vote on those proposed changes at the next meeting.

Wood also noted the handbook specifies students should dress appropriately for the weather as they will be outside before school opens, during recess and while waiting to board the bus except in extreme cases of inclement weather, including the outside temperature with wind chill being below 20 degrees.

District 87 did not vote on a contract with Integrity Technology Solutions, a joint project with Unit 5, which includes building a data warehouse, pending further negotiations with all parties.

Superintendent Robert Nielsen said the board would not meet in July unless needed.