JAY – School Committee members voted to increase high school regular-pay breakfast prices by 50 cents and regular-pay lunch prices by 25 cents.

They also approved 25-cent higher breakfast prices at the middle school for students who pay regular price.

Business Manager Stacie Everett told board members Thursday that a state food service auditor reviewed the program and advised they were not charging enough for some items.

“What we’re charging was not even covering the cost of the meal,” Everett said they were told.

The board voted to increase high school breakfast prices to $2 and lunch prices to $2.25, and middle school breakfast to $1.

Everett said earlier in the meeting that the meal program lost more than $15,000 in the last school year and some adjustments have been made.

There is still $3,500 outstanding from families who have not paid for meals students had eaten, she said, with one of those cases at $1,000 owed.

“We’ve been to small claims court three times,” she said.

In other matters, committee members voted to put a 1996 GMC 28-passenger with a wheel-chair lift out to bid for sale.

Bus No. 11 has 133,862 miles on it. Less than 300 miles were put on it last year and half of that was when Livermore Falls borrowed it, Transportation Supervisor Sue Weston said.

“It will not have to be replaced,” she said.

In other business, several nominations were accepted by the board including:

• Jonathan Pollack to fill the position of elementary school choral teacher and grades five and six general music teacher;

• Frances Ricker to fill the elementary school music teacher position;

• Kelly Leclerc to be the preschool teacher; and

• Jennifer Timberlake to fill the Jay Elementary kindergarten teacher position.