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Gadsden ISD continues shift to cashless student-activity payments, finance staff outline tradeoffs
Summary
District finance staff updated the board on two approved cashless platforms, MySchoolBucks and GoFan, sharing fees, availability, and usage rates; staff said most schools now receive a majority of activity receipts online and that cash will remain an exception.
GADSDEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — Finance staff briefed the school board on Oct. 16 about the district’s continuing move toward cashless payments for student activity funds, comparing the platforms MySchoolBucks and GoFan and reporting that 73% of activity receipts are now processed online.
The district’s finance presenter, Yolanda Rivera, told the board that MySchoolBucks and GoFan are the two approved online platforms for student activity fundraisers, including concessions and ticket sales, and that the platforms were selected after comparing proposals and implementation costs. Rivera said the district initially selected MySchoolBucks because it required no vendor implementation fee and could be managed by the finance…
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