The board also approved a $25 fee for students in fourth through eighth grades who participate in sports. <\/p>\n
The board previously approved a $100 fee for students participating in band or orchestra. <\/p>\n
While the registration fees will be unchanged, they may look different as the district is going to one registration fee as opposed to charging registration, materials and activity fees. <\/p>\n
Fees are $160 for early childhood classes, $275 for kindergarten, $280 for first and second grades and $285 for third through eighth grades. <\/p>\n
Additionally, there is a $6 fee for PTO class parties for children in kindergarten through sixth grade and a $5 fee for third-graders for a recorder for music class. <\/p>\n
In October, the board’s finance committee considered waiving the $40 activity fee for kindergarten through third-grade students or reducing the registration fee for all grades by $50 or $100. <\/p>\n
But district business manager Harold Huang said that in the current economic times, the district could not afford a reduction that “would not have a dramatic effect” on the bottom line. <\/p>\n
If the same number of parents pay the fees on time for the next school year, the district will see a decrease in revenue of $27,090. <\/p>\n
Parents paying late still will be charged a $15 fee per student with a maximum family fee of $30, Huang said. Parents can opt for a payment plan to spread the fee over three payments without being penalized with a late fee. <\/p>\n
The athletic, band and orchestra fees will pay for approximately 8 percent of the cost to run the programs, officials said. <\/p>\n
A total of 674 students participated in sports in the 2009-2009 school year with a total cost of $181,561 to run the program, including teacher stipends, supplies, equipment, dues, fees and transportation costs, Supt. Michael Sass said. <\/p>\n
There were about 65 students who would have qualified for waived fees, Sass said. <\/p>\n
The addition of a $25 athletic fee likely will generate about $15,225, assuming it is paid by 609 students who do not qualify for free or reduced lunches, he said. <\/p>\n
Huang said the district surveyed neighboring districts and found that most charged fees between $25 and $35. <\/p>\n
The $100 fee for band and orchestra likely will generate $36,200 in revenue. The district’s total cost is $418,542, he said. <\/p>\n
There were 400 students who participated in band or orchestra in the 2008-2009 school year, with about 38 students who would have qualified for waived fees, Sass said. <\/p>\n
Karen Brennan, president of the New Lenox Band Boosters and parent of a seventh-grader in the program, said the boosters organization is concerned the fees will reduce participation. <\/p>\n
“We already pay for these classes with our registration fees. No other fees are mentioned for any other electives,” Brennan said. In addition, parents have to either buy instruments or rent them, she said. <\/p>\n
Sass said he would schedule a meeting with the band boosters. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Families in New Lenox School District 122 will see slightly lower fees next year if they pay their fees on time, but only if their children are not involved in sports, band or orchestra. The school board Wednesday approved keeping fees the same but having an incentive of a $10 discount if fees are paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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