The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, says school systems can no longer use federal dollars from the free/reduced price lunch program to help cover the cost to produce a lunch for students who don’t receive free or reduced price meals.  Using the Paid Lunch Equity Price Calculator, school systems are required to increase lunch prices by 5 cents or 10 cents each year to equal the amount reimbursed by the federal government for free meals. Based on the Paid Lunch Equity Price calculation, regular lunch prices for Yancey County will increase by 5 cents and the mega meal price will increase by 10 cents. On June 13, 2012, the Mitchell Co. Board of Education approved a motion to keep lunch prices the same and subsidize the program with local funds for the 2012-2013 school year.