RAPID CITY, S.D. – With the school year beginning soon, Rapid City’s Common Council is considering an effort to reduce student lunch debt. At Monday’s meeting, Ward 3 Councilman Greg Strommen, announced the Council’s support of the Fed and Ready to Learn program that is managed through the Black Hills Area Community Foundation.
Strommen suggested a challenge to local businesses, citizens, and organizations to donate to the program and the City Council will match those donations up to $25,000. The effort has been in the talking stages for a while, but is ready to move forward.
“It’s been kind of in the discussion stages, it has been more formalized through the discussion stages at this recent working session. So he decided to bring this forward Monday night. The next step, they need to take formal action, and put it on the council agenda, the council will have to vote and approve it moving forward,” Darrel Shoemaker, communications coordinator for the City of Rapid City said.
The Council is expected to consider an official motion at the Legal and Finance Committee meeting on August 14 with the full Council voting Monday, August 19.
