Meeting
Minutes-Woolwich PTA
September
10,2015 Meeting called to order-6:04P
In
attendance-Melissa, Lorna, Lacey, Debbie,
Danielle,Beth J, Beth H, Sarah, Mona, Amy, Leslie, Stacey, Kristen.
Meet
& Greet-Attendees introduced themselves.
Lorna gave a brief overview of what the PTA does.
Large % of
funding for school field trips.
Offer
support to for school- school picture helpers, eat the rainbow veggie prep and
delivery for Wellness, Grandparents day greeters and lunch prep, coffee for awards and school functions,
presentations at parent info nights. Close buy, Box Tops, Labels for Education,
spirit wear and Cyber Awareness.
Upcoming
events-
Book fair will begin September 17th to
coincide with open house.
Close Buy - Our first fundraiser begins September 11. Gina picked up catalogs for us in Falmouth (huge help and great example of a way to volunteer if meetings are too hard to attend) Lorna to get product samples week of 9/21. Orders due October 1; online through October 4.
Deb has put in a request with Mr. Libby to use
the gymnasium on October 30th for our Pre K-5 Halloween Dance. Upon his
approval, Deb will let us know what she needs for volunteers and any funding.
Box Tops-
Stacey has $956.80 to redeem from last year and is planning a fall racecar
visit because of its popularity with students.
Local drivers are eager to help in the community and show off their cars
to students.
Spirit
Wear-We will plan to do 3 drives this school year. Discussed possibility of having some
inventory to display for Shop Till You Drop Craft Fair and (depending on Mr.
Finnimore's turn around time) have order forms for holiday logo wear ordering.
Cyber
Awareness Night- The PTA plans to host another cyber awareness night for
parents this fall. The feedback was that
the State Police power point was well done, but was a bit too scary and intense
for parents; the rest was well received.
This will be timed with the MLTI parent info night.
Funding
Requests
Mrs.
Luchies-Funding for author visit (Poet-Paul Janeczko) $700. Mrs. Luchies would also like $300 for books
for her 8th grade boy’s book club.
Bay Day-The
4th grade teachers would like $210.00 to cover the transportation cost to
Bowdoinham for the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay program.
Rocky Ridge
Orchards- $150.00 for transportation for Kindergarten students.
Chewonki Bug
Mobile-Grade 2 requesting $305 for this visit.
5th &
6th Grade Math Team-Judy Mansfield would like $350 for registration for 4 math
meets in Portland.
7th
& 8th Grade Math Team-Mr. Huston is requesting $250 for registration for
the math team meet for those grades.
Motion
to approve ALL funding requests heard.
Motion seconded. VOTE-APPROVED
Child
Care for PTA Meetings- Mrs. Fisher arranged for
two 7th grade students to provide childcare for children of attendees of the
PTA meeting. They will receive points
towards their WCS letters. Motion to approve giving up to two sitters per
meeting $25 scholastic dollars each.
VOTE-APPROVED
*When Dena returns from vacation we will confirm our Scholastic dollar
balance and vote by proxy on giving each teacher either $25 or $50 to be used
at the book fair.
Treasurers
Report
Stacey
reported an account balance of;XXXXXXXX
Insurance
cost is $35 for the upcoming year
Member
dues will be $4.75 each.
Labels
for Education-Stacey reported that we have
points to redeem. Mrs. Harrington is not
in need of anything at this time. Stacey
will redeem our points for a pre-paid visa card that the PTA can use towards
school needs.
Amazon
Smile- The PTA is now signed up. If you sign up for Amazon Smile you earn 1/2
cent for WCS for every dollar you spend.
Target
Red Card-Families using Target Red Cards can sign
up to support WCS. 1% of purchases go to
the school.
Clynk-
We are now signed up for Clynk. Upon Signing up we received 10 bags and tags
at no charge. When the bags are full of returnable bottles, the bag can be
returned to the bottle area at Hannaford supermarkets. The bar code needs to be
scanned when you drop off your bag.
Stacey pointed out that it could be a conflict with the DC bottle shed
donations. This was discussed and Lorna
hopes that this fundraiser will not put much if any dent in that; as it is for
those that go to Hannaford and those who do not are unlikely to make the trip
specially for bottles when the ease of dropping them at school is there. All agreed PTA should stay away from a
specific bottle-drive type fundraiser in order to respect the collection at
school. Danielle suggested that we get 100 bags ($15) for open house. The bags can be pre-tagged before hand to
ensure we get credit for the bottles.
Kristen will purchase the bags ($50 previously approved for this program
via e-mail) and make a sign for the PTA table at open house.
Meeting
Adjourned-7:15PM
