PVE PTO Minutes
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
In attendance: Kirsten Wujek, Carolyn Goebel, Chris Squier,
Jennifer Pratt, Rebecca Cunningham, Molly Griffin, Tracy Pappas, Jill Bonnell,
Mary Ostrander, Chad Smith
President:
Reminder: The School Board Meeting is March 8th.
Vice-President:
The
Arts Fair had higher attendance than last year. The auction brought in $1070 and the cake walk raised $650. The auction proceeds were below
expectations; it was suggested that the atmosphere surrounding the auction did
not have the necessary excitement to drive up the values of the auction items
but instead took on more of a family feel like that of a bake sale.
Some suggestions for next year were to
put the jump roping activity in a separate room and to move the cake walk to
the cafeteria.
Secretary:
We
were having a copier issue so the January minutes were not able to be
distributed and approved during the meeting.
Voting to approve these minutes was done online.
In
light of the budget crisis and the difficulty of copying minutes that are
several pages in length, Jennifer will no longer make copies of the minutes for
everyone attending the meetings. A
single copy will be available at the meeting if you have not had a chance to
read the email distributed before the meeting.
Treasurer:
Molly
updated the projected column of the budget.
Molly
asked the group to approve an extra $250 in teacher grant funds for games. When the games were ordered, the entire
amount was inadvertently ordered instead of half the amount as budgeted. A motion was made by
Tracy to approve the $250 and seconded by Chris. All approved the $250 for games.
The
bins for the teacher’s classroom libraries have been purchased. They have already been put to use and all
are pleased with them.
Student
Services:
Kokomo
Beach Day is Friday 2/26 for 1st through 4th
graders. It is a 30-minute event that
occurs during lunch. Kindergartners
will celebrate separately.
Fundraising:
The spring book
fair is 4/12. All revenue earned will
be in product (not cash) to spend from the catalog.
The
next movie night is 3/12.
Enrichment: Nothing new to report at this time.
Staff Services: Nothing new
to report at this time.
Newsletter: Please have
articles submitted to Ginger Lenig by the 20th of each month.
Publicity: Nothing new to report at this time.
Principal Chad
Smith:
Thanks
to movie night volunteers.
The
Walk Across America program is going well.
PVE is going to pass CA so they may head to Canada for the
Olympics!
Spirit
Day is coming up in February.
PVE
will celebrate “Pennies for Patients” in February. Fundraising for cancer research will take place. PVE will specifically be celebrating a 4th
grader who is cancer free now.
To
aid with the budget crisis, Chad presented a few ideas to consider:
Reminder: Next
PTO meeting is March 2nd, 2010 at 9:15 AM.