| Item Title: | Approval of Purchase of Mosaic Food Service Point-of-Sale System (Weiss/Ryckman) | | Agenda Title: | Approval of Purchase of Mosaic Food Service Point-of-Sale System (Weiss/Ryckman) | | Background: | Our Food Services department has been using the point-of-sale (POS) system Nutrikids to process school breakfast/lunch transactions and applications for free/reduced meals for over the past ten years. The vendor is no longer making meaningful updates to the system, and the system requires outdated and expensive hardware to function.
After exploring various replacement POS systems, we have determined that the best fit for our District would be Mosaic, a POS system from the same vendor as Nutrkids, Heartland Payment Systems. In addition to being a modern system, Mosaic would allow our families to use the same online portals to deposit funds for their students' meal balances (MySchoolBucks) and apply for free/reduced meals (MySchoolApps) as they are currently using, since Heartland provides those platforms as well. Because it is a more modern system that provides flexibility in the hardware we use, implementing Mosaic will allow the District to save significantly on hardware costs over time.
We would begin implementing Mosaic this summer, piloting with our summer food programs, in preparation to launch fully at the start of next school year. | | Recommendation: | That the Board approve the purchase of Mosaic POS. | | Resource Person: | Nancy Weiss, Director, Food Services | | Fiscal Impact: | $18,484.50 for School Year 2019-20, including implementation costs. $18,999.00 annually thereafter, if renewed.
The initial and ongoing costs would be offset by the replacement of Nutrikids, which has had an annual license cost of approximately $12,597.50, and has also had higher hardware costs than Mosiac would require. | | Funding Source: | Cafeteria Fund |
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