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| Thank you for choosing Family Day Care for your child care needs. I look forward to getting to know your child and your family and strive to provide you with the quality child care that you all deserve! Please read all policies and initial each section where indicated. If you have ANY questions, please ask them! It is very important that we communicate openly from the start! Thank you! 1. Parent Responsibilities You are responsible for keeping me informed of any changes in the following: � Change of address � Place of employment � Other identification and emergency information It is expected that your child will be dropped off and picked up on time. This means your contract hours with me. As noted below under "Hours" I do not have an actual closing time. If early or late, a phone call is expected. If you are consistently early or late, your contract hours will be changed to your typical hours and rate may change. Additional fees will apply for early drop off and late pick up. An extra charge of $15.00 per child for the first 15 minutes (or fraction thereof) will be owed regardless of why you pick up late or drop off early. Each additional minute will be $1.00 per minute per child and is payable at the time of pick-up. This charge begins at the time you are scheduled to pick up your child or at the contracted drop off time. The time will be based on the clock in my kitchen. The ONLY exception to this late fee is ADVANCED agreement of an early drop off or late pickup. �Advanced� means asking me AT LEAST 24 hours prior to the time when extended care is needed and the additional fee will be decided at that point. Please do not put me in the uncomfortable position of reminding you that this fee is due. If you are early or late, you know it. I truly do not want the late fees; they are a reminder that I do not want to work early and I want to �get home� on time! I have up to 8 children in my home for at least 10 hours each day and even 10 minutes extra is adding time to my already long day. If your child is to be absent, early or late for any reason a phone call is expected by 9am or it will be assumed your child will not be attending that day. Many days we have plans and/or need to drop off school kids and must leave on time. Feel free to call my cell phone if you arrive and we are not here. Initials _____ 2. Admission Policy: Tuition is payable in advance, on FRIDAY by 5:00 PM for the following week. If your last day of the week is NOT Friday and you do not wish to come by on Friday, you may pay your child's tuition on the last day of care each week for the following week. If it is easier for you to pay for 2 weeks or a month at a time, this is also acceptable (as long as the tuition is paid in advance). If �payday� is going to fall on a day that the childcare is closed, please plan to pay by closing of the last day childcare will be open before �payday.� This also applies for absences for any reason. Otherwise, late fees will apply. FULL PAYMENT is due whether the child is present or not. This guarantees your child�s space. There will be a late fee of $10.00 if payment is not received by 5:00 PM each Friday. $10.00 will be added each additional day that payment is late (including holidays, vacations, and weekends). I am open for at least 50 hours a week and do not wish to work on the weekends. If your payment is not received on Friday, do not expect me to be home to accept payment on the weekends. If you cannot make arrangements to pay on time, then you will be charged the late fees. I also have a �no pay, no stay� policy. Your child will not be allowed to attend until all fees are made current - no exceptions! I am certain that you would not continue to work for a company that continued to give you your paycheck later than your agreed upon payday. I also will not work under these circumstances. Childcare can be terminated with no notice if tuition is late. It is very unfair to expect me to wait for my paycheck. There will be a $30.00 returned check charge. Please add this fee automatically to your cash payment should your check be returned for any reason. Also, if a check is returned, late fees do apply as if a check is returned, the money is unavailable to me. After the second incident, only money orders or cash payments will be accepted. There will be a minimum of a two week trial period in which either party may terminate this contact without any notice or penalties and deposit WILL be returned if termination is in writing and no monies are owed to Family Day Care. For part time contracts, the trial period will be longer. It will be based on number of days/hours child is scheduled to attend and child�s reaction to child care environment. Tuition for the week in progress and any care previously provided will not be returned. Initials _____ 3. Security/Holding Fee: A security/holding fee totaling two weeks tuition is due at time of admission. This fee will be used towards the last two weeks if an appropriate termination notice is given. This fee will not be returned if a two-week written notice is not given. It will be forfeited if the child is not enrolled for at least 6 months. The fee will also be used to pay any fees that are owed at departure. The security will be returned during the two-week trial period IF termination is given in writing and no monies are owed to Family Day Care. If the security fee is forfeited, it becomes the property Family Day Care. Initials _____ |
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