Tustumena Elementary Newsletter
April 21, 2015
Site Council Survey
Hello Kasilof Families,
Our Tustumena Site Council would like to hear from you and gather your input on what you believe the needs of the Kasilof community are and how Tustumena Elementary School can meet those needs better. Below will be a link to a survey. Please take a few moments to respond to the survey. Your input is vital to the continuous improvement of our school and community.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WFVRCGN
Thank you.
Doug Hayman
Principal
Kasilof Public Library
Press release from KPBSD
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888
News Release
KPBSD launches new system to accept online payments
Soldotna, April 21, 2015—“Mom, I forgot my lunch money!” Have you ever wanted to add money to a school meal account, for a student activity fee, donation, or lost book via an online payment? Now you can! KPBSD is working with RevTrak, which allows parents and other interested parties to make online payments to the district, via a computer or mobile device.
Food service payments
Online payment for food services is now available for all KPBSD schools. Online payments are processed in real time; this means that someone could make a payment in the morning, and the funds would be available for the student when he or she goes to lunch that day.
Student activity fees
Kenai Central High School and Ninilchik School are piloting the receipt of online payments for student activities, such as class fees, activity participation fees, donations, lost book fees and so forth. Additional schools are going live in coming weeks.
To make a payment
Parents or other people making payments can access a student record in three ways to make payments:
Use of the PowerSchool parent portal
Through the KPBSD website online payments link on the Students-Parents tab
Via the online payments icon on the KPBSD mobile app
“The district has had many requests for some type of online payment capability, so we are glad to be able to offer this service for students and we hope it will be helpful,” said Laurie Olson, director of finance. “Liz Hayes in our finance department together with Eric Soderquist and David Henson in information services have worked since last summer to get this online and functioning; they are the main reason we are able to offer this service.”
Note: there is a 3.61% processing fee calculated on all payments, no exceptions. This is the actual cost of the processing fee from RevTrak, and is not a source of revenue for the district.
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Pegge Erkeneff | Communications Specialist
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
148 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, AK 99669
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Upcoming Events
April 21- PTO meeting 4pm
April 22 - Grade 5 AMP
April 23 - Grade 6 AMP
April 27 - Last Site Council meeting of 2014-15 school year 4pm
May 1- YEAR BOOK ORDERS ARE DUE
May 1 - Early Release- Collaboration Day - students out at 2:05
May 6- Kindergarten Visit
May 6- Salmon celebration
May 6- 6th grade to Peterson Bay (maybe) they need more chaperones
May 8- 6th grade visit to Skyview 10am
May 12- Nikiski Pool- Mills, Young, Hopkins
May 13 - Nikiski Pool - Bosick, Gossett, Michael
May 14- Nikiski Pool - Blossom, Pollock, Werner
May 18- End of year Assembly- 1:15
May 18- 6th Grade Graduation 2:00
May 19 - Talent Show 2:00
May 19 - Picnic for Primary at Johnson Lake
May 19- 6th grade Bridges Project and egg drop
May 20- Field day 9:30 to Lunch (need volunteers)
May 20- Last day for students
May 21- Last day for teachers
Information
Email: dhayman@kpbsd.k12.ak.us
Website: kpbsd.k12.ak.us/tustumena
Location: 58231 Sterling Highway, Kasilof, AK, United States
Phone: 907-260-1345