16. What are the rules for using the St. Luke facility?
The church has been very generous with us in letting us meet here for such a reasonable rent. To maintain this wonderful relationship we have enjoyed so far, we need to honor their requests. We are renting the facility on a year to year basis, and so we all have to try hard to observe the guidelines and to keep track of our children while we are using the building and parking lot. Failure to honor the requirements of the church may jeopardize the whole program. These are the commitments we made when the church agreed to let us use this building
o Food consumption:
-- We will eat our food only in the kitchen, hospitality area and the designated lunch rooms. We will not keep food anywhere except in the kitchen. This doesn't include our supervised, preschool, Kindergarten and 1st/2nd snacks. In other words, snacking on the run, between classes, during classes, or after the program ends, is not allowed, even for older kids. We feel the older kids should be able to make it to lunch, and, if not, they need to schedule a trip to the hospitality room with their parent.
Coffee and drinks are served and consumed only in the downstairs Kitchen and Hospitality Room! All other areas are off limits to coffee/beverage drinkers.
-- Instructors: please help us out in this area by providing non-food rewards and treats for your students!
-- We will not bring in any colored or dark colored juices.
o Designated and off limit areas:
-- Please enter the lobby of the Church quietly and in orderly manner. We use the Church facility during the Church work hours--please don't let your children play/hang out/run around/in the lobby and office areas! Please remind your children to cross the lobby quietly. No running is permitted when children go from one place to another. Feel free to use any of the three coat-rooms available.
-- We will park only in designated areas. It seems obvious, but don't park in fire lanes, handicapped spots, or reserved spaces. This means that you may not leave your cars unattended in these areas for any length of time! If you do, you risk being ticketed or towed. If the lot is full, we will park in the county building lots next door.
-- We will only use the rooms that have been reserved for us: these are the downstairs rooms, the upstairs preschool rooms, the gym, and upstairs classrooms. We DO NOT have use of the sanctuary on a regular basis. Please ask the Assistant Administrator, Sandy Kreps, if you need more space, or a room change for any reason (in advance is nice.) Please don't use rooms you have not arranged to use.
-- We will not put tape on the walls, or lean furniture against walls.
-- We will use the main entrance only during the day (exception: you may drop supplies at the side door by the stairwell and then enter by the main entrance as usual, picking up your "stuff" on the way downstairs).
-- We will stay out of the sanctuary.
-- We will leave the rooms as described on the room layout maps which are posted inside each room.
-- The set-up and clean up crews will use these same maps.
-- We will not allow our children to play in the landscraping outside.
-- We will not allow our children to use the elevator on their own.
o All instructors will thoroughly clean up after their own classes, including scrubbing glue from the tables and picking up litter from the floor. Put the furniture back where it belongs as shown on the posted room maps. If you bring in a table or chairs from another room, please put them back after the class is done.
-- Leave the rooms cleaner than when you come in!
-- We will respect the altar in the classroom (usually a wooden box with a cross or other worship items on it) and not use it for any purpose. This includes using it as a table. Please remind the children in your classroom to not play with the altar or any items on or in it.
o Regarding Church Supplies
-- We will not use church materials or supplies that are often left stored in the classrooms.
-- We will not let our students play with/use any items in the classroom that don't belong to Explorers.
-- We will use only the designated closet in room 2 for storage.
-- We will not ask to use the copier or other equipment in the St. Luke office.
o Communicating with St. Luke. The church has asked ALL Explorers members who need to communicate something to the church staff, to please do so only through Sandy Kreps, our liaison to St. Luke. Even if St. Luke is your home church, we respectfully ask that you follow this request.
o Animals
--Seeing eye dogs are the only animals allowed inside the church.