August 2018 Meeting Minutes

Southeastern Elementary PTA Board Meeting
Sunday, August 12, 2018
4 pm
Attendance:
Blaire Culpepper
Jennifer Conley
Donna Weigand
Jessica Palmer
Amy Gerloff
Karina Ball
Suzie Christenson
Melissa Fuller
Bethany Haywood
Vania O’Keefe

I.         Call  Meeting  to  Order 4:20pm

II.        Approval  of  the  Minutes  (Recording Secretary) – May2018 meeting
a.        Blaire Culpepper
b.        Suzie Christenson

III.      Vote in New Treasurer –
a.     Signature card will be updated– need copies of IDs to take to bank this week
b.     Treasurer Report
o   Audit – passed, will get vote at open house
o   Balance  -
IV.      Goals and Business for 2018-19
a.     Membership goals: Principal goal: 100% faulty
•       planning on membership/fundraiser movie night for families-Jessica Palmer to contact cinema cafe about popcorn-possible date September 20 @ 5:30-7:30pm-providing popcorn and pizza
•       Vania looking into licensing for movie
•       Blaire ordering pizza
•       Budget $1000
•       Ticket price TBD
b.     Fundraising goals $
•       new media center/reading resource room
•       door entrance rug $2000
•       level reading materials $2000-3000
•       STEM materials/resources
c.      
d.     School of Excellence renewal –Other goals? Revisit August 2019
e.      
V.        Fundraiser: Boosterthon
a.     Dates: Kick off Oct.1st, Assembly Oct. 2, Run Oct. 12
b.     T shirts: check to Bethany for $250, Blaire went to previous companies with letter
c.     Set expectations: $30,000
VI.      Major Events, set dates
a.     Open House dates
•               Thursday, 8/30 
o               9:00 am – pre K and K- AM;
o               10:00 am – 4th grade;
o               11:00 am – K PM, 5th grade
•               Friday 8/31   
o               9:00 am – 1st grade;
o               10:00 am -2nd grade;
o               11:00 am – 3rd grade
b.     Crossing guard events/ dates
•               August 30/31st 8:30-12:30
•               October 12 8:30-2:30
•               Field Day-Date TBD
c.     Watch DOGS nights – Courtney Franklin- need a dad chair
•               Fall-October 18th Dodgeball with Dads 6:30-8pm
•               Spring- February 1st 7am Donuts with Dads 12 dozen donuts
•               Black-out dates
•               Courtney will handle the calendar and coordination efforts
d.     Chubby Pumpkin date- October 5th noon-10pm $600 for pizza
e.     Breakfast with Santa and Elf Shop – $1200 expense $1000 December 8th 8-11am
•               discuss Elf Shop vendors – who would like to do the research on this? – use School Holiday Shop in the past
f.       
g.     Pizza Bingo March 5th @ 6-8pm
h.     Student/ Faculty Basketball game March 26 Vania reach out to Micheal
i.      SOL Jam- Donna will email date
VII.     General PTA meeting @ 6:30pm
a.     Sept 10, Oct 1, Nov 19, Jan 7, Feb 4, March 4, April 1, May 6
VIII.   Spirit Nights-revisit-talk to Claudia and Blaire
a.     Skinny Dip
b.     Chick fil A
c.     Other?
IX.      Committees
a.     Teacher Appreciation – Jessica
•               Share plan for the year-same budget from 2017-2018
•               Back to school breakfast
•               Teacher appreciation week-through the decades
b.     Membership -
•               Membership incentives – teacher reward for top classes, not just student reward
•               Membership cards
•               Teacher membership incentives

c.     Box Tops
•               Review proposal
d.     Watch DOGS – need committee chair?
•               New ideas/ improvements?
e.     Reflections – Lisa Getier
•               Theme: Heros around me
•               Dates:
f.      Volunteer –
•               Collect and report hours via Raptor
•               Please keep your logs and turn them into me by March 15th
g.     Beautification – $500
•               Fall date ideas – pay Crew team again?
•               Spring date ideas
h.     Communication –
•               Facebook
•               Newsletter – all electronic this year?
•               Email addresses into mail chimp server so that individuals can opt out of receiving emails
i.      School of Excellence – need committee chair
•               Survey electronically – beginning of the year
•               Set goals
j.      Scholarship –
•               Discuss more specific criteria
o   Currently says – “500 word essay on reflecting back on your days as a student at Southeastern Elementary School, what experiences prepared you for your upcoming role as an undergraduate student?" 
•               Add different language in the application about what our criteria are

X.        Budget
a.     Discussion on items to use our money for this school year and VOTE
•               Ideas brought up by teachers to us –
•                
XI.      Any other discussion items?


XII.     Adjourn @ 7pm

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