We struck a great deal with our school, we purchase our own paper and the school will make the copies. We have a VERY SMALL budget of $2000 a year and have found spending $50-75 on paper not sooo terrible.

Thanks. At the board meeting we developed a plan. We will pay a per copy rate, and will discuss with the administrator the other activites we would like to fund. We decided to return to the puroose stated in the by-laws and continue to make decisions based on whether or not they fit with the mission. Who could argue with that?

Our school has 346 students and our annual budget is usually around $18,000. We provide field trips, classroom accounts, assemblies, winter carnival etc. I for one would be totally aganist spending that amount of money on a copy machine. The funds raised by our PTO are for the kids not copies. What does your membership think? Do you have an annual budget that is voted upon. Perhaps if you bring it to the attention of the administrators that you would like to provide different activities for the students with that money and the membership agrees they will be forced to budget their money for this expense.

We fund things like field trips, performances, scholarships, supplies, hospitality, clothing, talent show, fun night, fiels day, plus other activities in the school. We are a public school of about 270 students.

We are a small private Christian school, with a wonderful administration. We now spend $4,000 of a $8,000 budget on a copier lease.The fundraising committee and seveal parents wnat to know why we spend half of our budget on this expense that they thought was covered by tuition.The organization offered the copier in 1986 when they asked the teachers what they needed. The PTL board thinks that this expense should be a tuition-based operating expense. We are in need of a list of things that other organizations fund. We are expecting quite a battle with the school board and need facts.Can you all help?