PVE PTO Minutes

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

 

 

In attendance:  Kirsten Wujek, Carolyn Goebel, Chris Squier, Jennifer Pratt, Rebecca Cunningham, Becky Culp, Molly Griffin, Jen Kennedy, Priscilla Holder, Sharon Gall, Lesley Hargrave, Chad Smith

 

Principal Chad Smith:

Just a reminder that tonight is Family Math Night from 5-7PM.  Pizza and drinks will be available for purchase out of the upper cafeteria.  The math games and activities will be in the lower cafeteria and the hallway between the cafeterias.

 

Thanks to Sharon Gall and the teacher grant committee for reviewing and funding approximately $5,000 in requests for enrichment programs.

 

The Literacy Lab is open.  Thanks to Rebecca Cunningham for helping out with that.

 

The movie night was successful. Thanks to all the volunteers involved.

 

I have received interest by 2 people to start a club.   One such request was by a teacher to start a cooking club with perhaps an international flair.

 

Lice – There has been a lot of discussion around the recurrence of lice at PVE.  I am asking families to do early prevention at home.  Eradicating lice needs constant vigilance on everyone’s part.  It takes 2 weeks to get rid of nits to prevent reinfestations. 

 

The administration will be looking at the school’s policy as it always desires to stay current.  At this time, when an outbreak of lice is found:

·        The area in which it is found is deep cleaned.

·        The transportation team will be contacted to clean the buses.

·        The building where the kids pass through will be cleaned as well.

·        Note:  PVE was lice free before break!

 

Guest Speaker:  Abby Llorico, Chairman of the Board, The Zionsville Student Rights Union

Abby came to the PVE PTO meeting to discuss a current project of the ZSRU’s – Sleep to Succeed.  The main objective of the project is to adjust the school day schedules to better meet the health and productivity needs of teens as well as young children.  The ZSRU proposes swapping the high school and elementary school schedules.  For example, elementary schools would go from 7:30-2:30 and secondary from 8:30-3:30.  The ZSRU strengthens their proposal with scientific research and has proposed solutions to many other questions regarding the logistics of this swap, the details of which can be found on their website – www.zsru.org.  Abby can be contacted at abby@zsru.org with any questions or comments.  The ZSRU will also be presenting their proposal at the March Town Hall meeting.

President: 

 

The PTO Leadership Council meeting discussed the following:

 

$450 of Innisbrook product credit was discovered and used for the Literacy Lab and Family Math Night.

 

Enrichment:

 

Approximately $6500 in requests for enrichment programs were evaluated.  The enrichment committee had a budget of $5000.  The committee looked at the number of students impacted and the enrichment provided to determine which programs to fund.  Only 4 grants were declined in their entirety.  The committee is requesting that the budget be exceed slightly to partially fund 6 programs and fund the whole request for 15 other programs.  The total amount then for the 21 requests is $5051.07.  Jennifer Pratt motioned to approve grants for $5051.07.  The motion was seconded by Debbi Kuller and approved by the group.

 

Vice-President:

 

The Arts Fair is January 28th.  The fair will use mostly the upper elementary end of the building.  Silent bidding will occur the week leading up to the fair.  Items up for bid will include the stained glass window and stepping stones (from the artist in residence), and a day with Mr. Smith.  Several attending the PTO meeting suggested some additional ideas that could be put up for auction:

·        Ask the Strolling Strings to donate a certificate to play for an event

·        Ask Sullivan and Monart to auction off a class

·        Perhaps a music private lesson?

 

Starting on January 4th t-shirts will be available for Walk Across America.  They need to be sorted.  Chris will try to coordinate this over break.  Volunteers will be needed to help with recess during the event as well.

 

Chris needs volunteer requests for the second half of the year. Chris will be setting up an online request for volunteers using signmeup.com.

 

Secretary: 

Members had enough changes to be made to the November minutes that their approval was postponed (Becky Culp motioned to postpone, Tracy Pappas seconded).  All members should email their edits to Jennifer and the new set of minutes will be approved via email.

 

Thank you cards were sent to the PTO from the following:

 

Rene Frye – Thanks for the basket of goodies

Mrs. Vermillion – Thanks for the gift card

Donna Frecker – Thanks for the money for literacy items (assessment kits and teacher professional manuals, 15 games for literacy intervention)

Michal Murphy – Thanks for the lunch on Kindergarten conference day

Deb Krupowicz – Thanks for all we (PTO) do

 

Treasurer: 

To date, we are $4000 ahead but that doesn’t include any Arts Fair expenses.  The budget has funded early literacy materials but in general, Molly hasn’t received a lot of program expenses yet. 

 

Currently in our bank account we have about $51K.  This year we have budgeted about $19K in expenses plus $4K set aside for literacy programs and $3200 for the student crisis fund.  The net result is around $25K.  We like to carry over around $15K to the next year.  So, that will leave about $10K (09/10 budget) extra – are there needs that this money can go toward?

Some ideas suggested were literacy bins and a mobile lap top station.  The literacy bins have been suggested as a need in the past.  It was calculated that about 15 would be needed per class for 35 classrooms.  Chris Squier motioned to give $1200 for bins. Becky Culp seconded the motion and the group approved.

 

It was suggested that we should put a school wish list on our website – divided by age.  The donations can be tax deductible and would qualify for corporate matching as well.  Tracey said she would work on the wording for this and get it put on our website.

 

Student Services:  Nothing new to report at this time.

 

Fundraising: 

Book Fair - We need to get a date for the book fair for the spring.

 

Movie Night – 246 kids attended Movie Night.  We will keep perfecting what we are doing but the LGI room definitely worked out well for the lower kids.  Revenues totaled $1200.

 

Box Tops -  Our check should come in December.  The winners pics were in paper and an article was published about the Sept. competiton.  Mrs. Crone and Mrs. Mikesell’s classes got their frozen treats just after fall break.  Mrs. Mikesell’s class will help “write” and maybe help “produce” the box top commericals for Feb.   Mrs. Crone’s class will have some sort of role in the commercials also.

 The Tuesdays of purple week, they serve Goldfish physedibles  (with UPC) at our cafeteria, we will collect those packages from the kids each month.  

·        Thanks to Erika Revercomb, Jenna Bowling, Dawn Firmani, Dawn Rank, Kirsten Wujek, Kristen Jones, Ann Cash, Yvette Mybeck, Ellen Schellnase, and Angie Campbell for helping with counting this month. You are wonderful!  

 

Target - Target check came.  They will only send one check per year now so the rest of this year’s money will come next fall. Target total for this year  $1,607.15

 

Meier - Meier total is only $4.32.  Only 4 people are registered for PVE

*To get points you must pay with cash, pin-debit card or Meijer credit card.  You can’t use check or non-Meier credit card!

 

Marsh (POINTS TOWARD CATALOG purchases) -   Our points as of Dec. 1st equals 112,109. However bonus points of 45,000 were awarded for extra things we did and applied for. People are enrolled with their fresh idea card  totaled 473 people.

 

Tyson - A $40 check came this fall.  We will have a big push in Feb. with box tops competition.

 

Campbell’s labels - Our total points for Campbells mailed in the middle of November was 7,530. The Campbell Soup label competition started 10/5. The next competition is in April 2010.  We are also collecting soup labels off of all the cans submitted for the food drive.

 

Staff Services: All is going well.

 

Newsletter: Please have articles submitted to Ginger Lenig by the 20th of each month.

 

Publicity:  Nothing new to report at this time.

 

New Business:

The ZEF In-Style Luncheon is February 26th.  We are hoping to have a bigger presence this year by supporting at least one PVE table.  Please contact Kirsten Wujek if you’d like to attend. Tickets are $50 per person.

 

 

Reminder: Next PTO meeting is January 5th, 2010 at 9:15 AM.