UPDATE: Vending machine run by students declined by trustees
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A student proposal to operate a healthy snack vending machine at Salmon Arm Secondary has been turned down by the District 83 school board.
“Trustees stated the pitch was great, that Tianna Shefsky and Austin Beasley did a wonderful job, and that they admired their entrepreneurial spirit, but the vending machine proposal was probably not the right fit for the school district,” a District 83 update stated.
Concerns raised by trustees included that by the time the approval process was complete (which would include having to present to the school PAC), the two students would basically be finished Grade 12 and would no longer be students at the school.
It was also noted there were new Ministry of Health guidelines coming down which will affect what is sold in vending machines, and trustees didn’t want the students to be in the situation where they would have put up all the upfront costs for the machine and then perhaps be unable to continue under the new stricter guidelines.
