Castle Elementary PTO
Meeting
February 2, 2010
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President Bonnie Ciuffetelli
called the meeting to order at 9:08 A.M.
She made the following announcements: Breakfast with Brad dates are
February 12 at WCSC and March 12 at JH Castle.
The school corporation has installed cameras and card swipes for the
teachers in our building. Mrs. Scales
will explain more later.
Principal’s report:
Mrs. Scales said our next
snow make up day will be Presidents Day.
March 1-10 will be the ISTEP writing portion and the 1st week
of April will be the rest of ISTEP. The
school corporation has installed 12 cameras and card swipes for the doors at
the playground, back parking lot and front doors. There are monitors in the office and Mrs. Scales office. We will be getting 12 more cameras at a
later date. The student council bought
electric pencil sharpeners for all classes.
County Spelling Bee is today at Boonville Middle School. WCSC will be holding 3 meeting to discuss
budgets cuts in the school corporation.
They are going to have to cut 2.5 million dollars. They do not want to have to cut any staff.
Minutes:
The minutes were emailed and
passed out by Carol Mesker. Deb Titzer moved to accept the minutes as
presented; Marci Schmitt seconded; motion approved.
Treasurer’s report:
Dawn Bratton provided a
financial statement (attached). Ami
Larrison moved to approve the report; Deb Titzer seconded; motion
approved.
VP of Funded programs-
Kathi Wilson did not have a
report.
VP of School
Activities-
Michele Brookman did not have
a report.
VP of Special Events-
Deb Titzer has sent emails
regarding the spring parties. Everyone
seems to be working on plans.
Committee Reports:
§ 5th
Grade Events- They have launched the t-shirt design contest. The individual 5th grade classes
will be voting on the design during the spring parties. They will have another vote to select the
winning design at a later date.
§ Birthday
Book Club- No report. Dawn has received
some checks and bills for books so things are running smoothly.
§ Book
Fair- No report.
§ Community
Donations- No report.
§ Community
Service- Tiffany will be working with Mrs. McAtee in the spring on a project.
§ Directory-
No report.
§ Family
Carnival- Carnival is April 16. We have
chairs for all areas in place. There
will be a planning meeting for the chairs on February 18 at 9 AM. Donation letters will be going out in
February.
§ Field
Day- Field day will be May 24.
§ Fund
Raising- No report.
§ Helping
Hands- No report.
§ Hospitality-
No report. Will be providing snacks for
Young Authors night on March 2.
§ Landscape-
Tara will have a work day in the spring.
§ Library-The
library will need help on Friday’s after Spring Break. See Melissa or Mrs. Gurtcheff to volunteer.
§ Market
Day-The numbers for Market Day are really down this year. They only sold 46 boxes of cookie dough for
the sale this month. Bonnie told Jane
that they were doing a great job.
§ Popcorn-
Marci reported that she has a chair in place for next year. She also reported that popcorn has been
doing well since they switched vendors.
§ Publications-No
report.
§ Special
Rewards-Kathi Wilson announced the Box Top Contest is running February
1-12. One class from each grade
bringing in the most box tops will win an extra recess and free popcorn. They will also have a contest for those
turning in a paper with box tops attached to have a chance to win one of three
Webkinz.
§ Spirit
Store-No report.
§ Spirit
Wear- No report.
§ Student
Incentives/AR parties- Ami thanked everyone who helped out at the last AR
party. The next AR party will be March
12. Mary Jo Huff will be the presenter. She will have a 45 minutes storytelling
presentation followed by 15 minutes of questions, and 15 minutes for
prizes. Students will received a small
treat. No snack will be served.
§ Sunshine-
No report.
§ Web Site-
No report.
Old Business
Mrs. Scales spoke a few
minutes on fundraising at school. She
explained her policy on fundraisers.
The student council selects one organization to help a year. Beyond that fundraisers are limited to PTO,
school, mitten tree, and food baskets.
She realizes there are many worthwhile organizations but we are a school
and our main job is to educate.
New Business
Bonnie announced the
nominating committee for next year. It
will be Carol Mesker, Melissa Edris and Marci Schmitt. If anyone is interested in a board position
they should contact one of the nominating committee members. We will have several chair positions open
for anyone interested in those.
Meeting Adjourned at 9:56
a.m.
Our next meeting will be
Tuesday, March 2 at 9 A.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Carol Mesker, secretary