Source: Molly Smerika, ABC10, June 17, 2013

Twenty food service workers in the Negaunee School District will be keeping their jobs this coming school year. The Negaunee School Board decided to not privatize their food service program with the company Chartwells for the 2013–14 school year. The district is facing a deficit of almost $300,000 dollars, with $77,000 coming from food services. The board decided that they did not know enough about Chartwells, but said if there is not budget reductions done in a few years, privatizing could be the only option….The board did not name any specific ways food services could reduce costs, but they said one option might be raising meal prices….