Thank you Jerseygirl101 that was some very helpful info. I completely trust this new chairperson, but is more concerned with the casual appearence of, or opportunity to skim a little off the top. She justs wants a safeguard and you have provided a great one.
Our scrip system is definitely NOT perfect, but the person who orders, is not the person who fills the order. For example, Volunteers #1 &2 consolidates all parent orders, and ensures payment is made. They deposit the money, and send the forms to Volunteer #4. Volunteer #3 actually places the order with the Scrip company. Volunteer #4 takes All the orders, enters them into the computer along with payment info, then sends the order forms to Volunteers #5 and 6, who use the order forms to fill the orders from what was ordered by Volunteer #3. Extra Scrip from the Scrip center would not be possible, but volunteers #5 and 6 who have the stock of grocery certs could certainly help themselves. Fortunately for the school, I am volunteer #5,and would never ever never ever steal from the school. Neither would #6. So....I don't know. With school fundraisers there is always the chance for somone to steal (i.e. book fairs, kids Christmas shop). Just cross your fingers, and hope for the best. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Our PTO operates SCRIP through a seperate account and it is independant from our PTO general funds. Parents donate their proceeds to the teacher of their choice (usually their own).
This year we have a new person taking over the SCRIP managment and she is very concern about checks and balances and making sure that there are fail safes in the purchase system. The problem is this:
When she collects SCRIP parent orders and transfers these to the SCRIP purchase order how do we prevent someone from adding on an extra card or two for themselves? We are purchasing $6,000 to $8,000 a week in SCRIP so you can see that there is a good opportunity for abuse.
