Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Public school Board Monday evening,  heard from Food Service Director, and dietician  Shelley Mack who said she’s looking the school district joining a food cooperative. There presently are 98 North Dakota schools that are in cooperatives.

She said coops provide great buying power for school districts.

She pointed out that there was over $2,500 in unpaid  student meal account balances in 2017-18, she said, including  roughly $1,000 inactive accounts when students left the school district without paying.

In other business the school board was informed that Heidi Budeau has been hired as the new Special Education Director for the school district, coming from Bismarck, where she a special education teacher.

She succeeds the retired, Rhoda Young.