Florida Statute, Section 595.405(4), requires district School Boards to approve or disapprove a policy to offer universal free breakfast at all elementary, middle, and high schools with 80% or more students eligible for free or reduced price meals after hearing public testimony at two or more regular Board meetings. This is the first of two opportunities for the Board to receive public testimony on this issue. No vote on this item is required at this time.

Qualifying schools are: Alta Vista, Emma E. Booker, Gocio, Tuttle, Wilkinson, Booker Middle, Triad North, Triad South, Sarasota School for Innovative Studies (SSIS), and SSIS Middle.

A vote of the policy will be held following the board receiving testimony a second time at the next meeting on August 05, 2014.