Pre-payment

Please take advantage of the options to prepay your student's meal accounts. Prepaid meal accounts help the lunch lines go faster and gives students more time to eat, relax, and play. It also gives you the peace of mind of not having to worry about looking for lunch money every day or worry that it might get lost, stolen or used for things other than lunch.

We offer two pre-payment options: online payments and sending cash or check to the school.

Online Payments

Online payments through the LINQ Connect Family Portal (formerly Titan School Solutions) are a simple, safe, and secure way to make payments to your student's account 24 hours a day at your convenience.

For more information about using the LINQ Connect Family Portal, click here.

When using LINQ to pre-pay your student’s meal account, LINQ adds a minimum transaction fee of $2.85 (per transaction) regardless of the number of students and payment amount to accounts. However, if the payment is larger than $72, a percentage-based fee of 3.95% will be applied to the transaction. We understand that these fees may be cost-prohibitive.

To minimize the transaction fee, it is best to add credit to each child’s account, once a month, in one transaction. For example: If Mary needs money today and next week Johnny needs money, you will pay at least $5.70 ($2.85 each time) when you make a transaction, depending on payment amount.  But, if you pay for both students today, you will only pay one transaction fee of $2.85 or 3.95%, depending on payment amount.

Remember that debits from your bank account may take 24 hours to show, depending on the time of payment.  However, payments to your student(s) LINQ account will be delivered immediately.

Send Check or Cash

To avoid transaction fees completely, you may also bring money to the school personally or send it with your student. Please put it in an envelope clearly marked with the student’s first and last name, their ID#, their teacher’s name, and the amount enclosed. If you are sending money for more than one student, please also indicate the amount that should be placed on each students’ account.

Make checks payable to “LCSD#1 Nutrition Services.” Turn in cash and check payments to the cafeteria cashier(s) or your school’s office.

Click here to download and print out a pre-formatted #10 envelope for making deposits.

Nutrition Services Non-Sufficient Fund Checks (NSF) Policy and Procedure

Non-sufficient fund (NSF) checks include any check written to pay for student meals and returned to Nutrition Services from the bank stating that the check has not been paid. This can happen for insufficient funds, closed account, stop payment, etc.  In order to reduce the burden on the parent or guardian, any NSF check will NOT be charged a processing fee by Nutrition Services.  The intended amount of the check will be removed from the student’s account upon receipt of the returned check from the bank.  If this causes the student’s meal account to become negative, the student will not be able to charge a meal and will be offered the appropriate “alternate meal”.  Nutrition Services will attempt to contact the parent or guardian by phone the same day the check is removed from the student’s account.  The parent will be notified of the new account balance.  In order for the student to purchase a meal, the parent or guardian must deposit additional funds to bring the student’s account to an adequate amount to cover the cost of the meal.  Note, in the case of this causing the student’s account to become negative, the parent or guardian will have to pay the debt to the account.  After two NSF checks are received from the parent/guardian, Nutrition Services will NOT accept checks from this parent or guardian for the remainder of the school year.  The parent or guardian must pay in cash at the school or by credit or debit card online.  The parent or guardian may write checks again the following school year.

For questions please contact Nutrition Services Program Administrator, Ashley Roth at 771-2440.