Meeting Minutes January 11, 2013

Minutes-Woolwich PTA               

Meeting-January 11, 2013

Meeting called to order at 6:01

OLD BUSINESS

Box Tops- 2515 box tops were collected for the football drive.  A check for 257.50 will be issued from Box Tops For Education.

Pasta Fundraiser-Starts January 14th and will run through January 25th.

Discussion-possibility of doing either iTunes gift cards to be drawn or an iPod Shuffle raffle (for every three pasta items you sell, you get a ticket)

We will give the pasta samples to the winning classroom teacher.

Bath Sweet Shop- For our upcoming chocolate fundraiser the Bath Sweet Shop will be making custom candy sleeves with our school's logo. The orders will need to be in by March 1st and candy pickup will be March 18th.  The order forms will go out to students on February 15. The PTA will make 50% from this fundraiser.

Curtains-The PTA received a funding request from Mr. Soule asking for 30 curtains for the classroom doors that can be rolled down quickly in the event of a lock down. 

Discussion-Could we find a seamstress to make them so they are all uniformly done.  Does Mr. Soule want to have to install hardware on the new school doors?  Would a tension rod work? Jennifer and Danielle will get more information from Mr. Soule and we will discuss at our next meeting.

NEW BUSINESS-

Funding request- The 7th grade requested $70 from the PTA to  cover transportation costs for a field trip taken in December for the Production of Scrooge at the Chocolate Church. 

*Brief discussion over putting an e-mail out to staff to remind them the procedure and form needed to request funding before the event has taken place.

FAN NIGHT- The Wellness Committee will  put on a Family Activity Night on January 24th.

PTA Appreciation Family Night- The PTA would like to offer a free event this spring to show appreciation to parents and students for their support in all of our fundraisers.  We would like to offer different activities, games, crafts, Rubik's tournament, dancing etc.  We will discuss more at our next meeting. 

Cookbook-We need more recipes for our cookbook.  We will submit another prompt in an upcoming newsletter.