CPA PO

It is almost showtime for lunches! With this all being new for everyone, let me try to clear up the two things we are asking from you.

Register for the site: no cost, new and existing families need to register to access  the secured portions (carpool, lunches, directory, book exchange, anything where personal information is shared). Existing families may use the same password and user name as in the previous system but you must “register.”

Register for “Online Services”: this is the section for the $10 fee per student. This is not a “lunch fee,” but an on-line services fee for purchasing the following items: Yearbook, Triad meal/game tickets, Socials for bowling, Sun Splash, Kokapelli Parent Night, Gift Cards (coming soon), Snowstorm donations, and booster items etc. This fee is approx.  .25 per week per student.  This will allow us to process the bulk of payments online, alleviate the 70+ hours of volunteer hours done by hand.  You may now use your credit card, e-checks, or debit exclusively with added convenience and without additional charges. The Parent Organization processes approx $7,000  per month for our lunch program alone. This will be a better, more secure way of handling these payments for you and the volunteers. As parents you will be able to access your account and get reports of payment processing, when your student ordered lunch and if you paid for lunches. This too will make it unnecessary to call a volunteer and have them search files for the information. The new lunch program will allow greater flexibility to add and remove vendors, students to order even after the deadline and still get a lunch later in the month-hooray! You will also be able to order bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly.

If you would like to start lunch service on the 31st of August, your “On-Line Registration” must be done by midnight tonight.” Otherwise, this could delay  your first available lunch date.

I encourage you to attend tonight’s  PO Meeting at 7pm , at the school to sample some of the vendors and see the portion sizes. This will allow us to tweak sizes get feedback on menu items. We will be evaluating this process over the next month and review it at the September meeting.

Thank you, Kelly