The Red Mountain Ranch Elementary School (RMRE) parent fund-raising committee needs your help.
Financial support is needed to help families pay for this year’s oceanography trip, as well as lowering the cost for all. Everyone can help through the school’s extracurricular donations program.
The sixth-grade students will be going on an educational oceanography trip to California next April. The cost is $320 per child. This is an opportunity of a lifetime for some of these children. What a great way for them to see the ocean, and learn about it at the same time.
Donations are accepted by going to the Mesa Public Schools Extracurricular Activity (ECA) State Tax Credit site. You also can donate funds directly to our RMRE sixth-grade account. The deadline to donate this year is Dec. 31.
A tax credit is different from a deduction, because you may subtract the whole contribution from your Arizona State tax bill. An individual may contribute as much as $200, and a couple filing jointly may contribute as much as $400. Contributors receive the money back in the form of a tax credit.
To learn more about the ECA, go to http://mpsaz.org/community/eca/?ref=fnav-com.
Write yourself a lower tax bill. It’s good for you, and it’s good for the kids.
For more information, contact Fund-raising Chairperson Laurie Havird at lhavird@cox.net, or call (480) 239-7534.