A meal at Clinton Schools next year will cost ten cents more.

The Clinton Board of Education Monday night approved the increase. Superintendent Curt Nettles explains the increase comes at the recommendation of an audit done on the school's budget and it would be the first meal increase in several years.

With costs of nearly everything soaring at this point, Nettles indicates there are a lot of costs the district is simply absorbing and he credits the financial health of the district to be able to do that.