January 22, 2008

Dear Parents/Guardians,

To help simplify payment of school meals, the Western Boone Community School Corporation (WBCSC) has enrolled in an internet-based service called Café Prepay. This service is a website where you can deposit money into your student’s meal account using your Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express. Participation in this service is voluntary; you may enroll at any time.

Café Prepay enables parents to keep track of their student’s account balance. In addition, the website offers Automatic Replenish. This is optimal for the student whose lunch spending varies greatly from day to day. With automatic replenish, when the student's account balance goes below a specified amount, another specified amount is then deposited into the student's account via credit card. Using "automatic replenish on low balance", the student will never run out of money. Conversely, your credit card will not be charged until the student's balance goes below the specified dollar amount.

To get started, you will first enroll at cafeprepay.com. You will be asked to enter your email address and a password, which will be used each time you log in. Please note that a valid email address is required and that Café Prepay stores any necessary personal information in a secure, offline database which is accessed only to process payments and send payment confirmations via email.

Up to now, the WBCSC has not been able to accept credit card payments. Businesses that accept credit cards must forfeit a percentage of the sale to the credit card company, as well as pay a transaction fee and a monthly fee. We simply cannot afford to absorb these fees. Café Prepay was implemented in 2000 to collect credit card payments on behalf of school districts across the country.

In order to keep this service free to the school corporation, any item requiring Café Prepay to advance credits to your child’s account is sold at a small premium. This website fee covers all costs involved with this service, such as website maintenance, personnel, support, processing, electronically transferring payments to school bank accounts and infrastructure costs. You may choose to use the service only to view your student’s balance and participation reports at no charge.

Please visit pay4lunch.com/faq.aspx for more information. If you have questions that are not answered on the website, we encourage you to use the “Contact” link for Café Prepay. We hope you find this service a convenient alternative.

Sincerely,

Pam Swisher, Food Service Director

Western Boone Comm. School Corp.

765.482.6143

www.cafeprepay.com