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Parkside
Elementary School
PTO Board Meeting Minutes
February 2, 2009
Members in Attendance: Elizabeth Tomera, Jenny
Demosthenes, Melissa Traum, Jennifer Barlow, Shelly Erickson,
DiAnn Naden, Jeff Naden, LaNell Greenberg, Kathy Berry, Melanie
Johnson, Julie Workman, Elisa Cupples, Chris Nichols, Karl Sila.
The meeting was called to order at 6:34 pm by Elizabeth Tomera.
Co-Presidents Elizabeth Tomera and Jenny Demosthenes had nothing
to report other than to present a letter the PTO received from
Normal Community West requesting a donation to help with their
post-prom activities.
Treasurer, Melissa Traum reported that PTO received about $44
from the Meatheads fundraising days in January.
Principal, Shelly Erickson reported that Ben Rhodes won the
Parkside Spelling Bee and will represent us at the Mclean County
Spelling Bee. Mrs. Erickson has begun a reading recess program
with the 4th and 5th graders. Six 4th graders and thirteen 5th
graders have signed up. There will be three groups for 5th grade
and two for 4th grade. The students will be reading books
outside of the school day and then when they come together there
will be a discussion. It’s effectively a book club. LaNell
(Greenberg) is offering activities in regards to February being
Black History month. There are different cards with information
that Mrs. Erickson is reading during announcements and there are
worksheets for each classroom to complete each week. At the end
of each week there will be a prize for the classroom that
completes the most worksheets. The first Fridays reward will be
ice cream because the students are learning about the man who
invented ice cream. Mrs. Erickson also reported that the goal of
the redistricting is for each school to be at an ideal size so
we will go down to “a double with no bubble”. So we will
hopefully have room 4 freed up and more space for title 1. That
is one of the things that they will look at and at this point
there is no new news about the busing situation.
Melanie Johnson reported on the activities and what has been
planned this far for family Fun Night this April. She sent an
e-mail to DiAnn (Naden) and to Jenny (Demosthenes). We need to
start publicity and start putting things in the newsletter to
get people pumped up and excited. Jenny talked to the Zoo Lady &
she is doing Northpoint’s carnival the day we are having ours.
But she is currently working with a Children’s Discovery Museum
woman and she can do it for $50 for the two hours. She can paint
60 kids and offer 4 choices. There are 4 pictures and she needs
2 helpers, high school or adult to help her. We have to figure
out who get the 60. There are only 4 designs, tiger, kitten,
butterfly and lizard. The face painting lady would hand them out
and then hand them out when kids came and you will have to have
a ticket to get your face down. Some one hand them out. Card
stock tickets so there was some type of way for her to tell. And
we will pay her the night of FFN. $50 for the face painting and
normally $75. $50 for the full night. We are not selling them on
the PBIS cart. Games from last year, with exception of bouncy
are one person. At the races and the way we had them last year
they were connected to the classroom and then volunteers were
connected to that classroom. DiAnn needs a name for each game.
That is from last year. So all of them require one person. The
cake walk needs 3 people. Bounce house and Velcro wall and
obstacle course, all 1. The inflatable guy was there last year.
2 for Velcro wall and 1 for slide/obstacle course. The obstacle
course was in IMC and need 2. The PE teacher was there and
different volunteers. So, 3 total for obstacle course in IMC,
just two. Mrs. O’Connell set it up. How many volunteers at
concessions. Chris did it all last year. He doesn’t need any
volunteers. Excellent! Snow cone machines don’t need any
volunteers. Basket auction we need them? Teri Schmidt is in
charge of baskets. She will have someone there so DiAnn doesn’t
need that. Teri may need 2 volunteers. Face Painting needs two
volunteers. There are 24 games total so we need volunteers for
each one. The advanced sales of the wrist band will be and $10
at the door. Chris Nichols will be doing concessions again and
last year boiled the hot dogs and wrapped them ahead. We are
going to take equip from the high school and do it like they do
for football games. It would be best to have 2 lines for snow
cones. We will get prizes from Oriental Trading and $1650 is the
current budget. A lot of the problem we had last year at FFN was
the line for hot dogs interfered with the snow cones lines. We
will plan to have chips, drinks, diet coke, coke and water.
There was discussion about juice boxes but decided against that
because they can make big messes. We will plan to have
Starbursts, Skittles, ring pops and chips. There is no need to
purchase any additional insurance. LaNell Greenberg will take
care of ordering the extra 35 tables we will need. We also
should have plastic bags at the ticket to carry all of the kids’
prizes. By March 1st we need to call the police dept and talk to
them about the parking to give them a heads up about the four
side streets near the school. DiAnn will contact the teachers
about the beat the teacher game. The sign-up sheet will be in
the lounge to give them first choice at volunteer spots. The
Janitor will get $50 afterwards for the extra work.
Other committee reports involved the selling of Butter Braids
and that will be soon and they will arrive in time for Easter in
April. PTO made about $90 last month from Scrips. Scrips are due
this Friday, February 6th. The playground is going to take some
work, according to Chris Rhodes and he is going to work with
Jenny about getting the info set up for the next newsletter so
we can get a group together. Angie Stoewer couldn’t be at the
meeting but wanted Jenny to report that she will be putting
Valentine’s Day cards and a piece of candy in all of the
teachers’ mailboxes for Valentine’s Day and the next school
assembly is the laser light show on February 27th. DiAnn Naden
reported that the notes have gone home for the Valentine’s Day
room parties and that the parties will be on Friday, February
13th at 2:15pm. Kathy Berry said that the next Noodles Night is
February 9th from 4-9pm and the next Meatheads fundraising days
are March 10th & 11th. There are no set hours for Meatheads; the
coupons are honored any time to help Parkside PTO. Lisa
Castleman has been in contact with the board and is working on
the set up for the spring fundraiser. The fundraiser is chosen
and everything is $5. Currently just trying to figure out a
timeline for selling in regards to not interfering with Butter
Braid sales but possibly selling close to Easter. Julie Workman
is currently trying to find a new spirit wear vendor because the
lady she was working with at what was the current company is no
longer with that company. She would like to find some place that
offers hats, etc. The plan is to have it in place so we will
have sales before Family Fun Night so we will have items to wear
then. Maybe try to get orders in before Spring Break. We will be
selling the Parkside magnets at Family Fun Night by the ticket
table.
There was a brief discussion about what we should or of we
should donate to the Normal Community West High School
post-prom. Some members felt we should since we are using some
of West’s kitchen equipment for Family Fun Night concessions.
Karl Sila made a motion authorizing the board to spend up to
$100 in donation of cash for consideration to the West after
prom. Kathy Berry seconded the motion. All present were in
favor. The motion passed.
Kathy Berry motioned to adjourn the meeting at 7:33 pm. Julie
Workman seconded the motion. The motion passed and the
meeting adjourned at 7:33 pm.
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