Section 38091.

The cafeteria fund shall be used only for those expenditures authorized by the governing board as necessary for the operation of school cafeterias, including, but not limited to, expenditures for the lease or purchase of additional cafeteria equipment for the central food processing plant, vending machines and their installation and housing, and computer equipment and related software.

Whenever a cafeteria fund is operated pursuant to these provisions, the governing board may authorize the establishment of one or more cafeteria revolving accounts. For accounting purposes, a cafeteria revolving account is to be treated as a revolving cash account of the cafeteria fund, providing that the receipt of income and expenditures made from a cafeteria revolving account become recorded as income and expenditures of the cafeteria fund. Appropriate transfers, replenishments, and deposits between the cafeteria fund and a cafeteria revolving account may occur as are necessary to comply with accounting requirements. A cafeteria revolving account may receive and expend moneys in the same manner and for the same purposes as authorized for a cafeteria account.

The governing board of any school district, or of two or more school districts governed by governing boards of identical personnel, may also make expenditures from the cafeteria fund for the construction, alteration, or improvement of a central food processing plant, for the installation of additional cafeteria equipment for the central food processing plant, and for the lease or purchase of vehicles used primarily in connection with the central food processing plant.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998.)