Rib Lake board OKs accepting credit cards for paying lunch, fees
At the Rib Lake Board of Education meeting on November 10, the Board discussed credit cards.
Previously, the school district accepted only cash or check when paying student lunch accounts. As a service to people paying these, the Board has decided to begin accepting payments made online with a credit card.
There was a debate between two different systems for doing this, both with different costs and usage issues. The option they went with was JMC, which is the current system that the Rib Lake School District uses for storing and tracking student data, such as their lunch money account and their grades. Through using solely JMC, there is a $300 annual fee that the school district will pay, as well as a 3.99% credit card fee and a 1.99% ACH fee for debit cards per transaction. The school district was recommended by JMC to charge the payer $5 per transaction for the convenience of paying with a card.
Going with this option will ultimately cost the school district more money, but will hopefully prevent technical difficulties, and eliminate data being spread out, as the other option would have required integration from another service into JMC.
In Other Business:
The levy was approved at the October 24, 2022 special meeting at a total of $2,101,248.
The Marawood Conference is updating their banner after multiple schools have changed their mascots and logos. The Board decided to use the Dreamcatcher logo for this.
The Board voted on new rules for the high school fitness center, now allowing non-student people over the age of 18 with a fitness center pass to supervise students that are not related to them.
The Board chose a company to conduct maintenance on the HVAC system at Rib Lake Elementary School. This is repair necessary because there are 60 broken valves, causing some classrooms to become too hot.
There is a Blood Drive taking place on November 18 from 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. in the Rib Lake high school library.
The Board will be hearing presentations from companies about the facilities audit they are going to conduct. The Facilities committee is narrowing the search down to two or three companies for the board to consider. If the committee chooses two companies, the December Board of Education meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m., instead of 6:30 p.m. If there are three companies they need to hear from, the Board of Education will hold a special meeting to hear the presentations and decide.
The terms of board members Jason Dananay, representing the Village of Rib Lake, and Nicole Scheller, representing the Towns of Spirit and Hill, will be expiring in April of 2023. December 1 is the first day to file candidacy to run for the Board of Education seats. For these current Board members, December 23 is the last day to file incumbent non-candidacy papers. January 3, is the last day to appear on the ballot.
