Communications

• Send electronically or post final scores on a board instead of mailing them
• Have students provide pre-addressed and pre-stamped envelopes for mailing test scores
• Establish accountabilities for FAX and long-distance phone usage
• Establish regional reduced rate call system through phone company
• Examine phone service and Centrex for less costly alternatives
• Institute billing IDs for placement of long-distance telephone calls
• Ensure local area networks (LANs) or wide area networks (WANs) are efficient to reduce communications costs
• Develop accessible computer options for communications
• Use e-mail instead of memos
  Reduce redundant and unnecessary internal communications
• Reduce mailing privileges
• Use bulk mail instead of first class mail
• Use postcards instead of letters
• Reduce the number of catalogues and schedules routinely sent out
• Compare costs for publishing class schedules in local newspaper versus stand-alone documents
• Review the process for the design and introduction of the schedule of classes

Thanks to the [information] Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt

“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!”
“You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland