Do you pay for your AP's personal gas?
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Anonymous
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Am Malala my APs and I have taken a lax approach to this. I generally fill the cars up once a week. She adds gas if it's getting low when she's using it for a longer distance or timeframe than just around our area.
The only time I've ever addressed car usage was when my AP was complaining that she's always stuck picking up and driving everyone because I was the only one who let my car go into D.C. And we had no curfew. I told her that had to stop. I wasn't paying for everyone every weekend. And my car wasn't going to get hit with all the miles. |
Anonymous
I do the opposite way. I have the AP track the program related car use, which is finite, predictable, easier to calculate mileage of (going to class, LCC meetings, kids weekly destinations). We reimburse based on round trip miles from home as calculates by google (since these are all singular trips). AP gas up and we reimburse her. Whatever left is her personal gas use. This way, she has skin in the game to be motivated and responsible to track number of trips - not miles (for the destinations that we pay for) accurately since the more she can account for, the more she gets reimbursed back from us. This way, she does not have to bother tracking all her personal trips here or there which could get tedious. |
Anonymous
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We ask that AP pay gas for personal trips over 5 miles RT which covers 2 grocery stores and our local mall. We leave a notebook in the car and ask that she log trips over 5 miles. Also she has to log and pay for any tolls.
We give an iPhone and a $25/week "personal groceries/toiletries" allowance (excludes tp.... we get that at Costco) |
Anonymous
| Yes. Only time we don't is when she takes road trips. Anything else is just too petty and tedious to track. |