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Meeting Minutes February 14, 2013
Minutes-Woolwich PTA
Meeting-February 14, 2013
OLD BUSINESS-
Pasta Fundraiser-The pasta fundraiser generated a profit of $506.19.
Window Shades-Danielle and Jennifer spoke with Diane Mitchell, a seamstress
from Bath who gave us an estimate for the cost of making window covers for the
classrooms. We were looking for a shade
that the teachers could easily roll down in the case of a lockdown. She gave us
a price of $540.00 for 30 classroom door shades and 2 larger shades for two
additional windows.
Vote-All in Favor of having the shades made by Diane Mitchell-unanimous
Cookbook-Mrs. Devon is going to have the kids draw pictures to be used as
the dividers in our school cookbook. The
PTA will vote on the artwork to be used.
Box Tops-The football drive for box tops was a big success bringing in a
total of $736.20. The classroom that
submitted the most box tops was treated to a football party with popcorn and a
special visit from some members of the Morse High School Football Team.
Funding Request- Mrs. Luchies in the library has requested a donation in
the amount of $150.00 to purchase books for the Book Club as well as the
adopt-a-book program.
Vote-All in favor-unanimous
Chocolate Fundraiser- Jennifer and Danielle were sad to report that Mr.
Fraser, the owner of the Bath Sweet Shoppe passed away. They sent a condolence card to the family on
behalf of the PTA. Mrs. Fraser is a bit
overwhelmed and is unable to do a chocolate order form as planned. Instead she has offered to make a special WCS
card for each student. This card would
give 25% of the sale of the chocolate go directly to the PTA.
Vote-all in favor-unanimous
Book Fair-At our next book fair we will be offering Scholastic Dollars to
teachers that bring their classroom down to the book fair.
Treasurers Report-Stefanie informed the group of a balance of $XXXX.
Discussion-We discussed that for a such a small group we have a nice amount of money raised. We brainstormed about how to drum up participation at our PTA meetings so it is not the same 10 people every month. To keep putting on some of the great activities (such as the Spooktacular Dance) we need more volunteers. We discussed trying to encourage the cheerleading moms and dads to come over to the meeting while the girls are in practice as well as doing invites via the PTA Facebook page.
Meeting Adjourned-7:17
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.
Meeting Minutes December 13, 2012
Minutes-Woolwich PTA
Meeting-December 13,2012
Meeting called to order at 6:03
OLD BUSINESS-
Box Tops- The box top contest is in full swing with a football theme this
year. Every 100 box tops are equal to
one touchdown. The classroom with the
most touchdowns will get a visit from the Morse football players. This drive will be ending right around the Super
Bowl.
Terracycle-A check for 85.00 was collected for juice pouches and another
large shipment has just been sent.
Shop Till You Drop- We had 52 vendors and made $773.67 less the cost of
table rental and the cost of the iPod shuffle for the raffle.
Discussion-It was suggested that we do a fair punch card next year for
shoppers to have punched at each craft fair where they can receive a cup of
coffee. This could promote fair hopping
to encourage people to visit all the local craft fairs. It was also suggested that the day be
extended by one hour in the am or pm to allow for more shopping time.
Cookbook-Need to put out a request for more recipes.
Treasurers Report-Stefanie reported $XXXX in the PTA's account.
Scholastic Book Fair-The book fair generated around $3000.00 in sales. The profits will allow us to provide books
for the 6th, 7th and 8th grade book club as well as books to give at the RTI
breakfast or for students who's families cannot afford books. Looking for ideas on how to get books to
the students that need them most without them feeling singled out.
Door Closer- No updates from the office.
New Business-
Gretchen S. spoke to the PTA to address her concerns about internet
safety and her desire to put together a group or offer a blog to give support
to students and parents regarding internet safety. She wants to let parents
know what's out there for social media and discuss what other parents are doing
to keep their kids safe. Karen suggested
we do a survey to see how many parents would be interested. Jennifer said she would chat with Mr. Soule
and get his thoughts and report back next month.
Wellness- A Family Activity Night is planned for January 17th.
Meeting Adjourned at 6:55
Monday, April 8, 2013
Meeting Minutes November 8, 2012
Minutes
Meeting-November 8, 2012
Meeting called to order at 6:03.
OLD BUSINESS
Box Tops- Received a check for $1723.00 for box tops submitted.
Discussion- Winter drive involving a contest where each class has a string
of lights and receives a light bulb for every 10 box tops collected. Prize for the class with the most lights will
be sleds and outdoor snow toys.
INK- We have earned 51.00 to Staples that will expire this month. Tracy
will purchase paper to replenish Betsy's supply and buy items for the teacher
bags that are given in the spring.
GENEVIEVE- Students sold $6669.35.
The PTA will receive $2137.23.
$273.53 will go towards the MT. Blue trip. 923.93 was earned by the 8th
graders to be put towards the DC trip.
Four prizes were given to students who sold the most items. The prizes were; an iPod, Red Claws tickets, a
ride to school in a firetruck & a ride to school in a sheriff car.
PURE ART- A profit of $924.60 was made.
The K-5 sales were to be given to Mrs. Devin's art program. The sales for grade 6 go towards the Mt. Blue
trip & the 7-8th graders profits go towards the DC trip.
Halloween Dance- PTA members and office staff received some feedback from
parents over their disappointment over the absence of the Halloween dance this
year. The PTA needs more volunteers to
put on successful dances that keep the kids busy with activities while ensuring
that they do not get hurt. We would like
to plan a Community Appreciation Night for January where we offer game stations with Wii Dance games, Bingo and
possibly a movie (pending Tom's approval).
NEW BUSINESS
Funding request- Betsy and Mr. Soule
are asking the PTA to fund a hydraulic door closer for the office. The estimate submitted was in the amount of
$410.00 (door part $360.00 & labor $50.00).
A discussion followed and we all agreed that Betsy is the glue that
holds the school together and we want to keep her happy but would like to find
out if there is a less expensive alternative and if we could find a parent to
donate the labor. Questions asked; Does
this impact the kids? Does it follow our
mission statement for the PTA?
Funding request-Name plates for the entrance to all classrooms. Jennifer did some research and found a
company that will sell the name plate and bracket for 13.00 each if you provide
a link to their web site on our PTA web site.
Questions brought up were; Is it a quality product? How long will the link appear on our web
site? and are their any products sold
from this site that we would not want to be associated with? Jennifer has requested a sample for us to
look at. Tracy will check with Staples
and see if we can use our credits to purchase the name plates through them.
Shop Till You Drop- Scheduled for December 1st. We will need set-up
volunteers, early morning check in volunteers, volunteers to take down tables
and clean up after the fair and volunteers to work the Book Fair. Discussion about weather we should provide
food for the vendors and patrons? Could
we have a food truck come? Could we have
the 7th grade provide the food? Deb
Y. will run the goody walk. We will
send out flyers asking for baked goods and snack donations for the walk.
Maxine F. has a suggestion for the PTA that we hold a Holiday Shopping
Exchange for the younger grades at school. This gives the kids a chance to feel
proud to shop on their own and have a small wrapped present to present to
family members. We would collect donations
of small items for the sale that would be sold from .25cents to $1. We agreed that their is not enough time to
put this together for this year.
VOTE: all in favor to table this item until September 2013. Approved
Pasta Fundraiser-This will run from January 14-25.
Chocolate Fundraiser-This will run from March 4-15. Chocolate can be picked up the Thursday night
before Easter.
Cookbook Fundraiser-Jennifer had two samples of cookbooks for us to
view. Faculty and school Families submit
their favorite recipe for us to compile a cookbook to be sold. The first 4
pages in the front can be about your school.
Student art work can be submitted for each category in the
cookbook. They will be sold for between
$10 & $14 dollars. We are hoping to make $6 on each book sold. Would like to have recipes collected and
submitted in April for cookbook delivery near Mothers Day. A form will be sent home with all students to
fill out their recipe on.
A question was raised about the check in the amount of $1000.00 given to the
Parson family for the purchase of a new sound system last Spring. The Parsons returned the check and let us
know that the speaker was already broken
before we borrowed it for our dance.
Meeting adjourned 7:15PM
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