Child Care Tuition

 Tuition payments are used to provide the highest possible quality of care and environment for your child. Tuition is based on the schedule recorded on the Parent/Provider Contract and is due on every Friday by 5:30pm. Payment is considered past due if not paid in full by 5:30PM Friday; at which time a $15 late tuition fee will be charged daily until tuition and fees are paid. Late payment of tuition may cause child care services to be suspended without notice until full payment is received. Pre-paid fees including overpayments are non-refundable; it is your responsibility to ensure that the correct amount is paid. Tuition may be paid weekly, bi-weekly or monthly; by check, money order, or in cash.  At least two weeks' notice will be given before a rate increase is put into effect.

Child Care Assistance Payments

We are more than happy to work with parents receiving assistance from the Department of Health and Human Services. If you are receiving assistance you are responsible for co-payments and any other payments or fees not covered. In addition if your child is absent from care it is your responsibility to cover those payments yourself.

Overtime Child Care Fee

 It is vital that you adhere to your contracted schedule to maintain legal staff-child ratios as well as the quality of care you expect. Therefore an overtime fee will be charged if your child is dropped off or picked up more than 5 minutes outside of your contracted schedule or is on the premises before 6:30am or after 5:30pm. To comply with the center's closing time of 5:30, please be sure your child is signed out before 5:30 and is off the premises shortly thereafter. The overtime child care fee will be $20.00 per child for the first 10 minutes plus an additional $1.00 per child per minute for each minute after the first 10 minutes.

Late Tuition Payment Fee

Prompt payment of tuition is necessary to ensure that the program can continue to function. Tuition fees that are not paid in full by 5:30pm on Friday are considered past due and a $15 Late Fee will be charged daily until the tuition is paid in full. Child Care will be terminated after one whole week of non-payment.

Child Care Fees - NSF Fee

The program needs to maintain an adequate cash flow in order to continue, therefore a fee of $40.00 will be charged for any check returned due to non-sufficient funds (NSF). In addition to the NSF fee, parents are responsible for all charges assessed due to NSF checks. NSF checks will be re-deposited once and if returned a second time a cash or money order payment is required for replacement of the check. Because subsequent checks from the same account may be held by the bank, tuition payments must be paid in cash or money order for six weeks following a NSF check. If three separate checks are returned dues to NSF all subsequent tuition payments must be made in cash or money order.

Child Care Supply Fee

To help maintain a good stock of supplies for your child we will inform you before your child's stock of diapers, wipes, or any other consumable item will be exhausted. If your child runs out of any consumable item we will provide the item for a supply fee of $2.00 per item, which will be charged to your weekly tuition. Payment of this additional charge is due with the next payment of weekly fees. We have a small supply of extra clothing in limited sizes in case of emergencies. Because licensing rules require that we keep extra clothing on hand, if your child needs to borrow our extra clothing and it is not returned within one week a replacement fee of $5.00 per item will be added to your tuition.

Child Care Tuition Discount

When a family enrolls more than one child for full time care, the full fee will be charged for the youngest child and a 5% discount will be applied to the tuition of older siblings. The discount only applies to full time schedules.