We do not pay for copies. We did purchase a Rizzo last year though, I wasn't too happy about that, there were other funds that could have came from. I suggested the PTO buy its own paper because there is so much info to send out and our teachers only get so much paper. They have to keep up with their own. Our machines are leased but is paid for by SBDM.
We don't pay for copying or paper. But we do buy all the laminating film and binding rings. That costs about $1200 a year both PTO and school use this equipment. That's our trade off. Our district's document center recently was "jammed up" and we priced out the printing of our directory. Came back at $2300, that's 30 double sided pages, card stock front and back and thermo bounded. Thank god the doc. ctr freed up. I feel like we are getting a bargin. Our district doc. ctr has some free student labor.
The funny thing was I was once again reminded that we pay $0 for parent communications. We use school's website, district doc. ctr and schools copiers, school sign, backpack express, emails. I would pay if I felt that parent communication would benefit from it.
We have 1100 students, kindergarten thru second grade. We pay nothing for copies. Every once in a while, we purchase some paper and leave it at the school for their use.
Our PTO pays about $1500/year for copying costs for the whole school, but we can use the machines as often as we want. We're still trying to figure out why it is the PTO's responsibility, and not the district's, but as far as I can figure it has always been done that way.
Our PTO, at a school of 720 kids, pays the school $400 per year for the privilege of using the copiers. If we want to use a lot of colored paper, we'll buy that outright, but we don't buy our plain white paper. Our major copier has a code for our PTO which we reset at the start of this school year. By the end of the year we'll know approximately how many copies were attributed to the PTO. I'm sure we're getting off cheap for $400 - but I'm not going to make a big deal of that!
