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Parkside Elementary School
PTO Board Meeting Minutes
November 2, 2009
Members in Attendance: DiAnn Naden, Jeff Naden,
Shelly Erickson, Jamie Lunt, Elizabeth Tomera, Julie Workman,
Jenny Demosthenes, Alethea Morse, Angie Stoewer, Tony Marsaglia,
Karl Sila, Elisa Cupples, Jennifer Barlow
The meeting was called to order by Elizabeth Tomera at
6:31pm.
Co-Presidents’ Report – PTO is still in need of
a Spring Fundraising Chairperson or Co-Chairpersons. If someone
is interested it would be appreciated if they would contact one
of the board members to let them know. Moreena Tiede has offered
to chair yearbook this year. If parents, teachers, staff could
e-mail their photos to her that would be great! Her e-mail
address is Moreena@gmail.com. The staff Christmas gifts will be
the same as last year. Each staff member will have a $25 amount
to use through Scrips. Jenny Demosthenes will take care of the
staff gift orders again this year. The staff orders will need to
be turned in by December 1st.
Treasurer’s Report – Melissa Traum was absent
this month. She had the budget available for approval. We have
not received the fall fundraiser bill yet but sales were around
$6500, with PTO receiving 40% profit. The bill & shipment should
be received around November 18th, Alethea Morse said. The no
hassle was expected to bring in $1000 and we are at $1125 so
far! The float only went $28 over budget. We should continue to
push Scrips and have Karl & Marianne look into getting a sign or
banner to help promote. Babysitting for December 12th also needs
to be organized. The necessary tax forms were filed by Melissa
on October 26th.
Principal’s Report – Shelly Erickson said that
Parent-Teacher Conference turn out was good with between 80 and
90 percent participation. Angie Stoewer coordinated the lunch
and it was great with lots of great food! Exciting News! Dr.
Neihaus had a meeting with Shelly and some others and Parkside
is getting grant money towards the playground! It is a one-time
thing and is through some grant money with help from Dan Brady.
We will be using Game Time. There are seven schools involved:
Benjamin, Sugar Creek, Cedar Ridge, Hoose, Oakdale, Carlock and
Parkside. The town of Normal probably won’t be able to take care
of installation for all of them but will probably contract out
the installation with installers to take care of it. Don will be
coming to meet with Shelly on Wednesday to look at the
playground and see what would be needed for the new code
spacing, no metal, maybe get rid of the pea gravel too. Don will
talk with Shelly about what needs replacing and of course the
two new schools and the Sugar Creek School will be the top
priorities. She wanted to know if PTO was still thinking about
$10,000-$12,000 and the board will check with Melissa when she
returns to confirm actual numbers. The students will have to be
a part of the decision making process with this new grant being
involved. Also, there is a CAC survey that will be on the
Parkside website so if parents could please complete that survey
that would be great!
Committee Chair Reports
Fundraisers:
December 12th Babysitting Fundraiser – It will be held from
1-4pm so parents can do some holiday shopping. It is only open
to current Parkside elementary students, no siblings. There will
be a pre-registration. The cost will be $10 for the first child
and $5 for each additional child per family. There will be an
additional $1 fee for each minute a parent is late picking up
their child. DCFS regulations require that there is one adult
for every 20 children over the age of 5. Jenny or Elizabeth will
e-mail potential volunteers and if any parents are willing to
volunteer, if they would contact either of them that would be
appreciated. The board will work on the babysitting fundraiser.
SCRIPS – Karl’s flier was fantastic! Everyone
was thrilled with the flier that just went home. Melissa had
left a note mentioning the purchase of a banner to promote
Scrips. DiAnn Naden put forth a motion to approve the spending
of up to $150 for promotional materials or signage for Scrips.
The motion was seconded by Alethea Morse. The motion passed.
Spirit Wear - PTO will not be selling this year
for Christmas. Next year we plan to have order forms available
at registration and during early September so orders can be in
by Homecoming. This falls orders should be in soon.
Hospitality & Assemblies - Angie Stoewer
thanked all of the parents who helped with the Parent-Teacher
luncheon. Next year rather than having parents donate food for
the teachers breakfast PTO will just pay to have it catered.
It’s too much of a hassle for a lot of parents to bring food and
then have to bring their child to school 45 minutes later. Angie
is going to get with Shelly about setting up the assemblies.
Elizabeth mentioned that Ameren has a reasonable, maybe free
assembly on energy that is good. Teachers just have to fill out
a 5-question survey.
Restaurant Fundraising – Culvers seemed to have
a great turn-out in October!
Room Parties – DiAnn Naden said that Halloween
parties went well. Christmas party sheets will be going home in
about two weeks.
Family Fun Night - The face painting is
reserved & hired. The inflatables are reserved as well.
Currently we have three reserved but may get four because of the
great price. DiAnn asked if the person who took care of the
inflatables also did the snow cone machines in years past. That
was the case so she will take care of hiring him to do that as
well. She mentioned that there is a need for someone to solicit
for the baskets (Following the meeting, Tony Marsaglia said he
and his wife would chair baskets/raffle).
New Business - Angie Stoewer said that she had
spoken with an Oakdale parent about Market Day. Oakdale is
interested in partnering with Parkside. Oakdale would host the
delivery & pick-up and that way Parkside would help them meet
their quota and Parkside could earn money thorough Market Day as
well! Angie gave the parent Jennifer Barlow’s information and
Jenny Demosthenes said she would help with follow-up.
Julie Workman offered a motion to approve the PTO budget. Angie
Stoewer seconded the motion. The motion to approve the PTO
budget passed.
Motion to adjourn was made at 7:21pm by Julie Workman.
The motion to adjourn was seconded by DiAnn Naden.
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