Cookie re-order procedures for parents
by Susan Hunter

Your daughter has delivered all of her Girl Scout Cookies from her initial order and now neighbors, friends, relatives, and colleagues at work want more. What do you do? You can get more cookies from a Cookie Cupboard.
What is a Cookie Cupboard? A Cookie Cupboard is typically in the home of a Girl Scout volunteer (Area Cupboard Team (ACT) member). Cupboards are located throughout our Council area, and you may visit any that are convenient for you. Each Cupboard operates different days and hours depending on the schedule of the ACT member. Your Cookie Mom will have all the information (location, hours of operation, and contact phone number) for each Cookie Cupboard. There is also a Cookie Cupboard at the Girl Scout Center, 3110 Southwest Freeway. This Cupboard has the most cookies and extended hours of operation on more days.Your Cookie Mom may pick up your extra cookies, or she may ask you to pick them up yourself. If you are to pick up the cookies, you must get a red Authorization Card from your Cookie Mom and she must fill it out completely. ACT members are instructed to not release cookies to anyone without a completely filled out red Authorization Card – NO EXCEPTIONS!

Call the Cupboard and make arrangements to pick up the cookies you need. When leaving a message, state your name, your phone number, your re-order in packages or cases, the time and date you would like to pick up your cookies, and then, please, re-state your phone number again, slowly. Your re-order must be in full cases (total number of packages must be divisible by 12) but they can be of mixed variety.

The ACT member will give you a receipt when you pick up your cookies. Make sure the number of packages of cookies you are picking up match the receipt. Give this receipt to your Cookie Mom. This receipt is an important part of the paperwork she will turn in at the end of the sale.

Remember, you can get all the cookies you need until March 21. And then you have to wait for the 2005 Cookie Sale!

Cookie Checks

Make sure to get the phone number and driver’s license number of the check writer.

Do not accept temporary checks. .

Do not hold money in your home. Turn in cash and checks to your troop cookie manager often.

Checks are limited to $120.

Remember, as a parent, you can only write one $120 check to the Council.

Put your troop number on all checks.

Have checks made payable to: Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council or GSSJC.

Do not accept payment for cookies until they are delivered.