Food & Nutrition Services Department

The Food and Nutrition Services Department "Champ’s Cafe" Team is dedicated to serving well-balanced nutritious meals for all our students to refuel for learning.  Serving over 4,000 breakfasts and 10,000 lunches daily, more than 1,900,000 meals are served annually making the Champ’s Cafe Team the largest restaurant chain in Charlotte County. Staff safely prepare and serve healthy USDA meals to meet the nutritional needs of our students at our 20 Champ’s Café sites.  All schools serve both breakfast and lunch for free to all students as part of the USDA’s SSO, Seamless Summer Option and CEP, Community Eligibility Program.  All 20 schools have a Team Nutrition group comprised of students who provide feedback to the Champ’s Café manager, test new products, learn about food safety and how meals are produced in a commercial kitchen. All ten elementary schools were honored as silver or gold Healthy US Challenge Schools, indicating high participation in the meals program as well as meeting USDA criteria for excellence in school nutrition.

Contact Info
Terri Whitacre, Director
941-575-5400 Ext. 1405
Terri.Whitacre@yourcharlotteschools.net

Maintenance & Operations

The Maintenance and Operations Department is comprised of several sub-departments and is responsible for maintaining our school facilities and equipment. The M&O team maintains approximately ​3,206,171 square feet of educational facilities and 503 acres. The construction team has been tasked with remodeling, renovations and new construction. This extraordinary team has completed over $​434,777,387.63 in projects since 2000. Printing services for the District are provided by the Print Shop which averages over 12,000,000 impressions annually.  The M&O team is also responsible for our energy management program. Our energy team, with the help of each and every staff and student in our district, has reduced our utility costs by $19,452,254 in the first thirteen years of the program. The District is an ENERGY STAR Partner and has been awarded forty-six (46) ENERGY STAR plaques for energy efficiency by the Department of Environmental Protection (EPA). Eight schools and two ancillary buildings have been recognized by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) for their Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).  Within the Maintenance and Operations Department is the Special Projects Technology Repair Department which provides services and repairs on a multitude of equipment such as but not limited to computers/hardware, audio visual equipment, Audio Enhancement systems, security cameras, Promethean boards, ​Activision Panels, TV studios and much more throughout the district.

Contact Info
Billy Williams, Director
941-575-5400 Ext. 1306
Billy.Williams@yourcharlotteschools.net

Printing Services (Print Shop)

The Maintenance & Operations Printing services for the District are provided by the Print Shop which averages 12,000,000 impressions annually.

Procurement Services

The Procurement Department provides our schools and ancillary departments with everything from computers and professional services to furnishing entire new schools. For the 2021-2022 school year, they maintained 400 contracts, developed/reviewed sources, and of the 2,339 POs that were processed, they performed cost/price analysis for 1,390 purchase orders. The Procurement team assures Charlotte County Public Schools receives the best available products and prices. The Warehouse team traveled approximately 48,560 miles, and delivered over 32,465 cases of supplies to our facilities and 53,643 cases of food supplies to our school cafeterias. The Property Records team is responsible for inventorying over $23,297,218 of equipment. They are also responsible for the disposal of surplus items through the District's surplus store, surplus sales bids and recycling; additionally, they will collect over $148,365 in surplus sales conducted in its Surplus Store, online auctions, and recycling. These funds go directly back into our District’s general fund to support education.  Online auctions are conducted on www.PublicSurplus.com

Contact Info
Debbie Faber, Director
941-575-5400 Ext. 1410
Debbie.Faber@yourcharlotteschools.net

Transportation

The Transportation Department’s mission: “To ensure that each Charlotte County Public School student eligible for transportation is positive and ready to succeed by providing safe, equitable, and on-time transportation services.”  While the number of buses varies daily, on average 90 buses travel more than 1,877,656 miles annually. On any given day, 6,095 students are transported to and from school, making more than 1552 stops every morning and 1558 stops every afternoon.  The Transportation team is also responsible for ensuring that the entire fleet of school buses, maintenance and service vehicles, utility trailers, district passenger vehicles, emergency generators, and grounds maintenance equipment are inspected regularly, maintained and running smoothly. Student success begins and ends each day with our buses!

Contact Info
Tony Conte, Director
941-575-5432
941-575-5425 (Fax)
transportation@yourcharlotteschools.net 

"Student success begins and ends each day with our buses!"

Student Records

Contact Info
Charlotte County Public Schools
Records Management
1445 Education Way
Port Charlotte, FL 33948
941-255-0808
Fax: 941-255-7574
ccps.records@yourcharlotteschools.net