Orchard Ridge Elementary
PTO Board Meeting
August 13, 2003
Lisa Kornetsky
Kathy Statz
Mike Hertting
Donna Maysack
Michele Hughes
Lisa Stec
Heather Renken
Kelly Cook
The PTO Board unanimously approved the minutes from the June 2003 meeting.
We discussed staffing of the PTO booth at Registration on August 25th. We would like to have a volunteer sign up sheet that Lisa Stec will organize. Michele Hughes and Lisa will put up the booth before 10:00. Michele Hughes will person the booth from 10:00 to 3:00, Lisa Stec from 3:00 to 7:00 and Kelly Cook from 5:00 to 7:00. Lisa Kornetsky will assist around noon as well.
Dr. Hertting will assist in creating an Exel file for easy input of names and addresses for the directory. Lisa Stec will call Terry DeSida and Mike Stone to see if they can assist in inputting names on Registration day. Lisa Stec will call Mary Wilson the secretary to make sure that we have a table available.
Jennifer Goulette agreed to be the Room Parent Coordinator for this year. She cannot be present at Registration so we will need a sign up sheet for room parents.
Schwan’s
The transition from Market Days to Schwan’s is finally going smoothly with Leslie Gruendel’s perseverance with the company. She drafted a brochure that the Board agreed should be handed out at Registration and the first week of class. Donna Maysack suggested that we have brochures from Schwan’s available at Registration. She will check with the company to see if she can obtain these.
Michele Hughes spoke with Beth Wunderlin and she will be organizing the Ice Cream Social again this year. She cannot be present at registration so she asked the Board’s assistance in having a sign up sheet for volunteers.
Benches for ORE playground
Lisa Stec investigated purchasing three benches for the Orchard Ridge Playground. The Board unanimously approved allotting $900 for the purchase of the benches. Lisa will give the information regarding the benches to Dr. Hertting who will process the purchase through the school. We are hoping that we can still get a blower from Franklin who donated use of the blower in the past. His family is moving out of the school district.
Lisa Stec and Lisa Kornetsky agreed to work together to organize a Parent Helper Day for the school. Lisa S. said that before the Parent Volunteer Day the Boy Scouts will come and weed and she and Beth Walsh will paint the playground.
Lisa Stec reported Janet Dwyer called her to inform her that we will be getting an extra allocation for the YMCA after school program. Dr. Hertting agreed that we would be getting additional slots for low-income kids. Stephanie, a representative from the YMCA, will be available at Registration to discuss the program. Additionally, ORE will have a MSCR program supervisor (Ian). Lisa will meet with him tomorrow.
Heather Renken will be meeting tomorrow with the sales representative for the fall fundraiser. The company will come the week of the 9th to give a presentation to the school to kick off the fundraising effort. The sales period will run for two weeks. Delivery of the product will be October 21st. We will need help on the 21st to hand out the product. Michele Hughes suggested that Lisa Stec add a sign up sheet for volunteers for this day at Registration. Lisa Kornetsky is going to call Beth Wunderlin and ask if it would be all right to demo the fundraising product at the Ice Cream Social.
We brainstormed ideas for resources and materials to purchase with funds raised during the fundraiser. Beth Walsh suggested at a previous meeting that it would be a good idea to announce what we intend to purchase to motivate people to sell the product. Some of the ideas we came up with include:
The Board unanimously approved these suggestions. We agreed that we also need to publicize last year’s expenditures such as fans, arts programming, benches and the teacher allocation (roughly $10.00 per child).
Kelly Cook suggested that it would be a nice idea to provide teachers and staff (45 people) with bagels and cream cheese as a measure of gratitude for their services in the upcoming year. We unanimously approved expenditure ample to cover the purchase of the bagels. Kelly Cook will order the bagels from Einstein’s and deliver the bagels on August 29th.
Many parents and board officers would like to have babysitting available the night of PTO meetings. Donna Maysack said she would be willing to find individuals to baby-sit. She will contact Beth Walsh to see if her daughter would also like to baby-sit. We agreed that two babysitters should be available at each meeting. We unanimously agreed to pay each of them $5.00 an hour for two hours.
Michele Hughes and Kelly Cook worked together to come up with a proposed budget for the year. Teacher allocations were increased from $3,000 to $3,400. Destination Imagination was removed, as well as Child of the Week. Otherwise, most categories remained unchanged from the previous year. Michele asked whether there were any changes needed. Since no changes were suggested, she moved that the proposed budget be adopted. The motion passed unanimously.