<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Unfortunately this is very common, and part of it is accounting. But part of it is also awareness. When this happened to us year after year, I finally went to our principal with a spreadsheet showing the year's losses, and the dollar amount. He seemed surprised. After I did it for a second year, we started getting the money back.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">They can't route the fine revenue right back into your budget line item, but they (or you) can keep track of the fine revenue going into the General Fund for the year and re-allocate it back to your budget the next year...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:15 PM Jennifer Bromann-Bender via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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This happened to us. When I started working in this district, I sent the fines to the registrar. If they collected it over the summer, I would not get the money. There was no account for that on their end. It just went to general funds. So I started to
leave the fines and lost books on their library accounts until their senior year. I was more likely to get the money if the students had more time to pay and we could collect it ourselves before students got yearbooks and caps and gowns. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 26, 2021 1:59 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Meyer, Gail <<a href="mailto:GMeyer@tfd215.org" target="_blank">GMeyer@tfd215.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [aisle] Lost book fees</font>
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I don’t want this to turn into a discussion about IF we should be charging fees – it’s more an administration question.</p>
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If your fines and/or fees are collected by someone else in your building or district, do you ever see that money to buy replacement books? Our bookstore can collect library fees for lost material, but if a student or parent pays the bookstore, I was told the
money has to roll over into the general income fund and cannot be put into an account for the library to use to purchase new/replacement materials. So a student can lose a book and pay, but I never get money to buy a new copy of the book.
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Is this just an odd policy my district has in place, or is this some sort of business/budgeting requirement school districts must follow?</p>
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