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Parkside
Elementary School
PTO Board Meeting Minutes
April 6, 2009
Members in Attendance: Elizabeth Tomera, Jenny
Demosthenes, Melissa Traum, Jennifer Barlow, Shelly Erickson,
LaNell Greenberg, Kathy Berry, DiAnn Naden, Tony Marsaglia,
Chris Nichols, Susan Biancalana, Ward Workman, Julie Workman,
Elisa Cupples, Karl Sila, Melanie Johnson
Elizabeth Tomera called the meeting to order at 6:31pm
Co-Presidents’ Report - If you will NOT be
continuing with a committee chair position you are currently in
let us know because we need to fill it. We need a fall
fundraiser chair so please let us know if you are interested.
Treasurer’s Report - Melissa Traum reported
that we made $20.41 from Meatheads.
Principal’s Report – Shelly Erickson said that
the PBIS May 5th will be to see the Tale of Desperaux at the
downtown Normal theatre. PBIS last fling will be a basket raffle
to put the Penguin Points in for a drawing. There will be 30 or
40 baskets to raffle off. We need end of year play day
volunteers. June 1st will be a school improvement day & the 2nd
will be the last hour day. Play day will be sometime during the
last week of May. The play day will plan to be Wednesday and
then the rain day Thursday or Fri and have the talent show
sandwiched in there. May 7th is pre-registration at two times,
9am and 6:30 pm. The redistricting approval will be the last
week of August after the school year starts. Shelly thought the
plan would be in July. The plan of the committee is to have the
proposal in July and the attendance exceptions may not be under
that.
Family Fun Night Report - Melanie Johnson said
we have received the prizes and we spent $319.87 and Susan
ordered them and we bumped up the order. DiAnn Naden reported
that 113 out of 122 spots have been filled for volunteers. She
needs last shift and a second person to be with Elizabeth for
the face painting. Also needs one for set up and two for clean
up. All is set in place as of Wednesday and notes go home
Monday. The notes will have their name, shift, game and
location. Chris Nichols has his spreadsheet and if we sold 142
we have covered the cost of the hot dogs plus prize candy. We
wouldn’t be stuck with extras because the high school is still
running concessions so we could sell it to them. A couple of
years ago we ran a “Meal Deal” at FFN and we could make it a
good deal at $4 and still make $470in profit. Melanie will call
McDonalds to get ice from McDonalds. She will just call the
McDonalds office on Commerce and then has to pay a $150 deposit
and they give it right back to you. We will charge 50 cents for
snow cones again this year and we have double the amount of
prize candy. We could do pre-sale wrist bands at the prices of
presale $8 and $10 at the door and order the bands from Oriental
Trading. The letter for presales needs to go home Monday. We
need to limit the cake walk so that we don’t have the same kids
winning and winning. Melissa Traum will write up a letter for
cake walk donations and we will have a big tote in the front to
drop off donations. DiAnn will make sure volunteers will be in
all of the spots. We need set up volunteers to get the boxes
filled up with the prizes, check to be sure we have the
laminated signs for the games and check all of the game parts
and pieces. If you lose your wristband then you have to buy a
new one. Melissa will take care of thank you cards and a check
for the Janitor as well as a check ready for the inflatable guy.
Maybe some of the students could make posters to advertise
family fun night while at school? Maybe have some students meet
up after school one day? Susan will let Melissa know how much
change she needs to have for concessions. There also needs to be
separate lines for concessions and snow cones. We have 24 tables
ordered.
Committee Chair Reports
Butter Braids – sold 120, 121 $661 profit,
Susan Biancalana reported.
Spring Fundraiser – still have quite a few items that needed
picked up. The prize company closed so the salesman will need to
use another company and get the students their prizes later.
Scrips – Due Friday and sold 2200 in Feb. and 1100 in
March with about a 15 percent profit.
Hospitality – For teacher appreciation week we
will provide lunch May 6th. All week we have a theme Angie
Stower said such as Teachers are SUPER so we will have soup &
salad luncheon that day. In April we celebrate Heidi so Angie is
going to take care of her appreciation gift. And on May 8th we
will provide breakfast.
Restaurant Fundraising - Kathy Berry said that
Monicals Night is set for Tues, May 12th.
Playground – meeting tonight
Assemblies – Prairie Fire Theatre is May 8th
and it is the last one of the year. District 87 has a sphere
assembly that looks interesting but is expensive!
Spirit Wear – Today we had order forms
delivered and they will go home on Wednesday. There are samples
of everything! You can order at family fun night, ON or BEFORE
FFN and makes checks payable to Parkside Elementary.
The meeting adjourned at 7:32 pm with a first motion to
adjourn by Kathy Berry and seconded by Melanie.
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