The East Hampton and Amagansett School Districts have signed an agreement allowing Amagansett to buy lunches prepared by East Hampton for its own students.
The move comes several months after the Springs School District signed a similar agreement with East Hampton. Neither Springs nor Amagansett has a cafeteria program of their own. Amagansett’s interim superintendent, Richard Loeschner, said after Tuesday’s school board meeting that the agreement was negotiated after a parent survey revealed it was a need.
“The board has been pushing for this,” he said.
According to the agreement, which was signed on Dec. 23, Amagansett will pay $4.44 per meal for a minimum of 10 meals each day, which are transported to the school in a cooler by a district bus driver. Mr. Loeschner said the number of meals bought daily is between 20 and 25, and that the service started on Jan. 2.
The district is not charging families who take advantage of the lunches, which consist of sandwiches and other nutritious cold food items that are “in compliance with the standards” of the federal school lunch program and mirror the cold-lunch offerings that students in East Hampton receive each day.