Minutes – Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Jenevra  requested that the PTO fund 2 (two) 25 years of service clocks for faculty.  Jayson Tanzman will look into recognition items.

Discussed merging of Parent Enrichment Committee and PTO, being that they have similar mission statements and goals. Unanimously voted to proceed with this.

Main topic discussed with representative class parents was trying to lesson the burden of school fundraising.  At this time the PTO and the individual classes run fundraisers throughout the year to cover the costs of field trips and a number of school functions.  It is our hope that in conjunction with the class parents, the PTO would be able to raise approximately 17,000 a year between the craft fair – a fall fundraiser, and a spring fundraiser we will be able to meet these monetary obligations.   As class parents they would would under the PTO umbrella and  need to actively participate in meeting these goals.  We will need job descriptions for the individual class parents.  It will be strongly recommended that at least one class parent attend the PTO meetings.

We need to address the issue of having no PTO board for the coming year.  The only officer in first term is Jayson Tanzman.

Jenevra spoke of Joe Corbi’s, who we will be using for our fall fundraiser that will run Sept 20-October 1, 2010

Julia Russell presented the PTO treasurers report with class balances.  All the class monies in the accounts at the end of the year will continue to follow the classes until the monies are depleted.

There were three requests for monies from the PTO – Taconic High School was looking for a donation for after-prom that was voted down.

The parent enrichment committee was looking for funding for a guest speaker, but the amount was not know so it will have to be readdressed next meeting.

There is also a request for money for the community garden, amount not known, that too was adjourned to the next meeting.

Staff Appreciation week will be May 3-7, 2010.  Julia Russell will coordinate.

Meeting adjourned at 7:10pm, next meeting May 11, 2010 at 5:45pm.