FARMINGTON — RSU 9 directors voted unanimously Tuesday to increase full-paid breakfast and lunch prices by 5 cents each for 2013-14.

“We have been informed by the Department of Education that we are required to raise prices by at least 5 cents due to the new reimbursement rates until we hit the federal average, which is more than $2.50,” Superintendent Mike Cormier said.

The board set kindergarten through grade six fully-paid lunch prices at $1.90 and breakfast prices at $1.10. Reduced lunch prices at that grade are 40 cents and breakfast is free.

The full-paid prices for middle and high school lunches for grades seven through 12 were set at $2.15 and breakfast at $1.25. Reduced lunch price at that level is 40 cents and breakfast is free.

Adult lunch prices were set at $3.90 and breakfast prices at $2.10.

In other business, directors voted to reappoint Dr. John Hickey as district physician for the 2013-14 school year.

They also voted to reappoint Leanne Condon, assistant superintendent and director of curriculum, as attendance coordinator and David Leavitt, director of support services, as the truant officer. There is no pay attached to the appointments.

Condon also announced that Erika Neal, a pre-kindergarten teacher, received a $1,000 grant from Lego Education for “Preschool Playful Learning” involving Lego’s Duplo blocks.

She also announced that Janet Plouffe, a teacher at Cape Cod Hill School in New Sharon, received a grant from the Save Our Seeds Project involving growing heirloom seeds in kindergarten through sixth grade. The overall grant is $2,750.

Condon also was awarded a $50,000 grant she wrote with the help of third-grade teacher Keith Martin from the John T. Gorman Foundation, Condon said. The grant is to create a summer learning pilot program for grades one and two at the Mallett School in Farmington. It will have a focus on reading achievement and retaining the information students learn during the school year.

Cormier announced that the district’s adult education graduation will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at the Forum at the Mt. Blue High School. More than 50 students will graduate, he said.

That is a significant number, Cormier said.

The Foster Regional Applied Technology Center will also hold an awards program at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the high school gymnasium. The high school and Foster are at the Mt. Blue High School in Farmington.

There will be an ice cream social after the events.

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