Saint Brendan Parish School

PTO Meeting Notes

March 8^th, 2007

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Attendees:

Carolyn Casey (Co-President), Adele Kroeger (Co-President), Cynthia Ponti (Treasurer), Kim Kramer (Secretary), Chris Lunn (Principal), Sally Sonnen (Sally Foster), Michelle Russell and Peggy Harnden (Auction)

Opening:

The PTO meeting was called to order by Carolyn Casey at 7:05pm with a prayer. The meeting minutes from February 8^th, 2007 were reviewed and approved.

Principal’s Report:

Family Life – Great attendance and response from families.

ITBS – Testing starting March 19 and ending March 22^nd for grades 3^rd, 5^th and 6^th.

WASL – Testing for grades 4^th and 7^th will be after Easter break.

Snow Days – All grades are ok except for the 8^th grade. 8^th grade will need to attend school on June 7^th for a ½ day.

New Family Registration – Great response from Information Night. It currently looks like all grades will be full for the 2007/2008 school year.

School Commission:

Budget – Parish will increase the school budget by $3,000. Once remodel debt is paid off the parish will contribute more to the school.

New School Contract – School Commission has decided to table the decision to approve the new contract. It was decided that there was a need for more information. Father Jim feels strongly that the auction should be an annual event as a community builder. The volunteer hours buy out is another area concern. Father Jim feels this goes against the sense of community.

Before and After School Care – The school families were surveyed and only 37 families responded. 25 families were interested in participating and 14 families said that they might be interested. It was decided that there was not enough interest to consider this further.

Treasurer Report:

$47, 696.83 in general checking account.

Saint Brendan Parish School

PTO Meeting Notes

March 8^th, 2007

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President’s Report:

Reader Board – The Reader Board was installed upside down. Also, there were problems with the keys not working and letter spacing. The Reader Board will be taken down for repairs and should be returned by March 9^th.

Hot Lunch – A decision was made to add another day to hot lunch. For the rest of the school year Thursdays will be added to the hot lunch program.

PTO Nominations – Next week’s bulletin will be asking for nominations for next years PTO Board.

Committee Reports:

Sally Foster:

Mag Tag sales. The Sally Foster committee would like to introduce a magazine sale that school families could participate in by selling online. The school would profit 40% of the sales from the magazines.

Entertainment books will be available for a lower price of $20.

Cooke Dough Sales – The idea of 4^th graders selling cookie dough to raise money for EE Week will be investigated for next year.

Auction:

The auction was a great success bringing in $112,000 (gross). John Curly greatly contributed to the success of this year’s auction.

There are still many items that need to be picked up.

Peggy Harnden and team are on board for the 2008 auction.

The auction committee is checking into going back to the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue.

The auction committee would like to investigate ways to encourage more families to attend the auction. A survey may go out to ask why families do not attend.

Closing:

The meeting adjourned at 8:25pm

Respectfully submitted,

Kim Kramer

Secretary