Hallsville PTO Leadership Team Minutes
March 19th, 2007
Jennifer
Blumer, Chair of the Leadership Team, called the meeting to order at 7:15
pm.
Present were: Jennifer Blumer, Kristie Baumgartner, Penny Fadler, Laura Kabrick, Shawn Ricketts and Suzanne Stillwell.
It was noted that the proceeds from the Box Top
campaign goes directly to the school and not to PTO. Therefore PTO cannot control the spending of
the monies, only give suggestions. PTO
will assist in collection efforts by funding ice cream parties. It was suggested that middle school, apply
for their own box top registrant. Penny
volunteered to discuss this with Chris Crane, middle school principal.
Penny
Fadler presented the treasurer’s report and a copy of the budget. We discussed the various allotments of
monies. Most budgeted amounts did not
change from the previous year. We did
discussed how to handle expenditures of ice cream and other incentive items in
the box top campaign in the budget. Penny will ask the principals to handle this from
their discretionary funds. The budget
reflects a building fund of $500 where the profits of the candy-grams will be
placed, but was unsure, since this money will be carried over from year to
year, on how to reflect this in a balanced budget. She stated she would consult with someone
with more accounting experience.
A. Skating Parties: Penny reported that turnout for both the
Elementary and Middle school parties was excellent. The Elementary school party, held March 10th
drew 151 participants and the Middle School party held,
March 17th drew 54 participants.
B. Box Tops for Education: Suzanne reported for Sherri Briedwell that
11,000 box tops were collected and turned in on March 1st,
2007. The school made $1100 from this
effort, which was a little up from last year.
This month’s collection ends on March 23rd.
C. Safety Night: Suzanne reported that Safety Night will be
held on Monday, April 19th from 6 to 8pm. She reported that she had contacted the local police, fire station ,
KMIZ’s meteorologist, Sharon Ray and the Boone County Extension office, but had
not gotten any firm commitments from anyone to date. She was going to follow-up. Kristie Baumgartner was going to contact Rusk
Rehabilitation regarding an ambulance.
D. Teacher Appreciation Week: Laura Kabrick reported that she had made contact
with Judy George to reserve the board room for the luncheon on Friday, May 11th. There are 165 staff,
including cooks, they will be recognized during this week. Jennifer, Shawn and Kristie volunteered to
help with planning and we set a planning meeting for Monday, March 26th .
E. Scholarship Update: Application for PTO scholarships for High School
Seniors will open on March 1st and close April 15th. Two scholarships will be offered at $500.00
each. Applicant packages will be
forwarded to Jackie Quick, chair of the Scholarship committee after April 15th. Awards will be announced at the PTO May
meeting, May 8th. Volunteers
to serve on this committee have been forwarded to Jackie Quick.
F. Fundraising: Candy-gram sales have been earmarked to go
into a special fund called the Building fund.
Funds from this will be used as needed for major expenses. Cited as specific perceived needs are new
library books. Gail Miller will be called on to let us
know how we can help.
G. February Candy-gram: Because of snowdays, the sale was cut short, however, we made $132.11. The middle school enjoyed the
candy-grams. It was decided that the
next candy-gram would be held on May 1, 2 and 3rd before school at
the elementary school and during lunch at the middle school.
B. Fundraiser
B: Discussed next year’s fundraiser and decided
to go again with Cherrydale Farms, (the same company we used last year). We decided to start the fundraiser on August
23rd and go through September 6th, with a delivery date
of October 25th. Penny will
make these arrangements with the representative.
The
next Leadership Team Meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 30th in the Elementary Commons. The meeting was adjourned at 8:20pm
Respectfully
submitted,
Laura
Kabrick,