Section 38100.

The cost of housing and equipping cafeterias is a charge against the funds of the school district. However, when the governing board of a school district deems it necessary, the governing board may make the cost of the lease or purchase of additional cafeteria equipment for a central food processing plant, and of vending machines and their installation and housing, a charge against cafeteria funds. If school district funds are expended for the lease or purchase of additional cafeteria equipment for a central food processing plant, or for the lease, purchase, installation, or housing of vending machines, the governing board may at any time within five years after the expenditure reimburse school district funds from cafeteria funds.

The governing board of a school district may by resolution make the cost of maintenance of the physical plant used in connection with cafeterias, the cost of replacement of equipment and the cost of telephone charges, water, electricity, gas, coal, wood, fuel oil, and garbage disposal a charge against the funds of the school district.

The governing board of any school district, or of two or more school districts governed by governing boards of identical personnel, may also make the cost of the construction, alteration, or improvement of a central food processing plant and the installation of additional cafeteria equipment a charge against cafeteria funds. If district funds are expended for these purposes, the governing board also may at any time within five years after the expenditure reimburse district funds from cafeteria funds.

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