Thank you so much for the help that you have provided us.

We have high hopes that Sani-Shield, 3 in 1 will help us avoid the usual consequences of an annual “flu,” season and illnesses often associated with our winter sports programs. A school district is vulnerable in several different ways to most common communicable diseases.

Some affects of illnesses in schools are:

1. Sick children, in addition to suffering, are susceptible to more serious diseases.
2. Increased school absences often result in decreased funding from sources that consider attendance when determining fund distributions.
3. Ill, absent teachers require paying a substitute teacher who usually cannot provide the same level of quality instruction as the regular teacher, (they may have the ability, but not the time and continuity).
4. Students too ill to attend school often require the presence of guardians who may have to miss work and, consequently, income.
5. School athletes are sometimes affected by diseases to the point that sport competitions, (individual games and occasionally, entire seasons) are threatened or cancelled for fear of spreading illnesses.
   1. MRSA, though not as prevalent publicity would have us think and not as dangerous as rumored, is still a concern because of the occasional fatal consequence.

Needless to say, schools experiencing conditions producing these affects are heavily scrutinized by the community, parents, and the press.

Experience has prompted an alliance at our school district consisting of the Health and Wellness, Physical Education, Community Relations and Custodial departments, to;

• First, make sure that we are doing everything that we can to lessen the likelihood of an outbreak.
• Second; preparing an honest, understandable, comforting, response for every possible inquiry/investigation/suspicion during and following an outbreak. The custodial department, (I can attest, having been through this to some degree every year for many years), is the first area held accountable for responding as advertised so, logically, the public statement consists primarily of chronicling custodians' extraordinary efforts that custodians are obligated to perform. The effort is usually expensive, involving overtime and temporary help, and is disruptive to the normal cleaning process.

Our normal custodial cleaning schedule calls for;

Daily cleaning/disinfecting of all, (below grade 3), classroom and nurses' station “touch areas,” (desk/tabletops, telephones, light switches, push plates and door knobs).

Daily spot cleaning of all, (above grade 3), student classroom, athletic facility and staff office “touch areas.”

Weekly cleaning and disinfecting of all, (above grade 3) student classroom, staff office and athletic facility “touch areas.&rdquot;

All athletic equipment cleaning/sanitizing is the responsibility of the athletic coaches and teachers and is done as needed.

When there is a perceived threat of communicable disease, all normal custodial cleaning schedules are modified to cleaning all “touch areas” at least once per day and between users in most cases.

I've said a lot to get to the advantages that I believe your product, (Sani-Shield 3 in 1 Surface Care) will bring to a school district.

We have substituted Sani-Shield 3 in 1 for the sanitizer solution that we normally use to clean and sanitize all “touch areas,” only we use this product weekly in all areas. A weekly of application of Sani-Shield 3 in 1 to any and all of our “touch areas,” will assure us that we have a dependable antibacterial barrier that easily lasts from cleaning to cleaning. Removal of any visible soil with a quick wipe from a micro fiber cloth, dampened with water, as needed, is all that is required between weekly applications to restore any surface to its' original, Sani-Shield 3 in 1, sanitized state.

Originally we thought that the product would be too expensive to justify, but that turned out not to be the case. Our original test batch was purchased in 32 oz. ready-to-use spray bottles, (which provided much more coverage than I anticipated). Then we purchased a quantity of 1 gallon containers of concentrated product and really realized that the product cost much less to use than we anticipated.

Considering that we were using a moderately to expensive sanitizer to do all of our cleaning before the Sani-Shield program, that a little Sani-Shield treats a big area, and that we can clean surfaces between weekly treatments with just water instead of the cleaner previously required, Sani-Shield is very economical to use.

The same product, in wiper form, is made available at all athletic facilities for the athletic staff and athletes to wipe down their personal “touch areas” before and after each use. One wiper easily lasts each athletic facility user for their whole usage period. Especially if they take minimal effort to keep the wipe in it's original damp state during their competition/workout or practice session.

We are still finding uses for your product that we had not thought of originally and expect to continue doing so.

I believe that Sani-Shield may be the greatest technological advance in the cleaning field since micro fiber, especially when used in conjunction with micro fiber cleaning cloths.

The rest of the story is that Rockwood School District can proudly announce to the community, parents, and the press, that our custodians routinely use a cleaning process that provides perpetual protection from communicative diseases for our children and staff without having to react on an emergency basis once an outbreak is encountered.

Thank you Martin, and remember, I have other projects in mind that I want to consult with Unelko on, and that I am looking forward to Sani-Shield becoming available in “tub” dispenser form.

Sincerely,

Doug Coleman
Rockwood Schools in Missouri