Minutes, Jan. 22 Meeting

The treasurer's report was passed around. We paid our taxes, our Cherrydale fundraising bill, and for the Idaho Youth Theater ($700)... see Lesli Schei or Katy Mottishaw for a copy of the report. The theater program is scheduled for Feb. 5th at 8:30 or 9:45 am.

Grandparent's night was a big success. Teachers reported that most of their students were there. The treats also worked out well.

Valentine's Day Parties: These are shorter, and will take place on Feb. 12th because there is school that day. They are a half hour. We are looking at pre-iced cookies or maybe getting ice cream donated by Darwin Morrison. Katy will check.

Spring Fundraiser: We will need more money for this than the budgeted $600. It was moved by Kris Mullen, 2nd by Brandi Barnes that we increase the fundraiser budget by $200 and take the extra from leftover reflections and class party funds. This was approved unanimously. We may still need more money for a top class prize, but right now it will be about $600 for the prizes and $200 to print the envelopes.

Plans for the Spring Fundraiser: We will hand out the folders on February 9th, and give kids until the 19th to collect pledges. They will take the test on the 19th, and we will need volunteers that day to help grade the tests. The kids will then have until the 26th to collect money. We will count the money that day and the 27th and plan to hand out prizes on March 1st. We will use the trophy case again to display the prizes. The big prizes are a razor electric scooter and a mountain bike, and those are being donated.

Carnival: We will leave the budget as is, we really can't turn this into a field day because PTA insurance does not cover sporting events. We will discuss this event more later in the year.

Change to our standing rules: Our rules do not specify a term for our officers, and we have traditionally had one year terms. But since the regional, state, and national PTA offices are all 2 years, we discussed changing to the same, 2 year terms. It was moved by Brandi Barnes and 2nd by Katy Mottishaw that the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer should become 2 year terms, and that the president-elect should be one year, elected in the middle of the current president's term. This was approved unanimously.
Brandi Barnes also moved, Katie Campbell 2nd, that we should add the Carnival Chairperson to the standing rules, so this event can be covered by PTA insurance. It was approved unanimously. For a copy of the new standing rules, e-mail leslischei@yahoo.com.

We are finished with Capri Sun recycling, and will encourage use of the big recycling bin our front.

PAC: ML Rutherford, District 25 Behavior Support Specialist

January Agenda

One addition... there is a proposal to make a change to the standing rules regarding the offices of president and vice president. The proposal is to make these 2 year offices similar to the secretary and treasurer positions. We will discuss this at our meeting.

January Agenda

PTA Agenda, January 22, 2010

Review: Grandparents Night
Looking ahead: Valentine's Day parties
Spring Fundraiser (budget change? Increase the budget and take from the carnival budget?)
Carnival Plans

PAC: ML Rutherford, district behavior specialist